Vipassana in Brunswick East

MEDITATION
Went to a Vipassana meditation one hour sit today in East Brunswick. http://www.dhamma.org/ Excellent! Lovely people. Great energy. Afterward a group of us went out together for Indian food. Actually, just me, three guys and a girl. All of the other girls left so quickly after the meditation that I didn't even get to introduce myself. Alicia, is the one who stayed. She is here from Ireland for a just a couple of months to help her brother who is here in Hospital. A fourth guy, Simon, is considering renting a room in his house, so after dinner, Brendan (a Kiwi --from New Zealand) drove me to Simon's. The house was gorgeous! Beautiful wide pine floors, bedroom big enough to fit a king size bed, very minimalist, organized, great sunlight. By the way, they advertise "northern exposure" here rather than Southern. We are on the opposite side of the world. That took me a minute to wrap my head around. A little bit out from the neighborhood I ideally thought that I wanted to be in, but a good place. Simon and I will talk more about the apartment this week. In the meantime... Brendan (the Kiwi) and I are getting together next Saturday to check out the Melbourne museum. Yea!
Another sunny, 70 something degree day here in Melbourne. Love that.

FUN FACTS
Eggs are not kept in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. They are simply on a shelf. Not refrigerated. This is true in every grocery store I visited. I inquired (of course) and apparently the turnover is so high that they don't feel there is a need for refrigeration. I guess that people here don't sue if they burn themselves on their coffee.

Butter. Butter goes on all sandwiches. Yup, ham and cheese. Chicken, fish, Peanut Butter... you name it, it gets butter.

No, I haven't yet tried marmite or vegemite. Though I have smelled it and what came to mind was miso paste. I happen to like miso paste, so one day soon I'll be reporting on my first marmite/vegemite experience. I don't yet know the difference between the two.

WORD WONDERS
"jocks"= men's underwear
"meant to"= supposed to I was meant to be there at 4 o'clock.
"rocked in" or "rocked up" = arrived, showed up
"neely"= almost she nearly got it right
"Zed"= Z (the letter)
"here"= hee ya
"troy"= try
"troy eet hee-ah een melbn at the bank coulled A-N-Zed" try it here in melbourne at the bank called ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group)