Brisbane - Australia

After 10 hours and a half I was here in Brisbane -- the capital and a most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland. Australia consists of six states, two major mainland territories, and other minor territories. The states are New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. The two major mainland territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. My first impression was that its atmosphere was very much like Thailand's NaNa or those areas where elegant people were living. The city was clean and quite, if I had to be here alone for a year I would have forgotten many sounds I was familiar with. The plants here were also, as far as I had seen, same as what we had in Thailand; Leeladwadee, Saradoo, Thianyod, Junk, Prong, Pai, and more. You would hardly find people walk here in Austalia, not because of most of them drive cars, but it's like they had been hidden in some place. There was a tree that I had never seen in Thailand and it's called Jacaranda. Its blue-purple was attracted me when my plane was landing to Brisbane airport. There were planted all around the city even on a road surface. I had not been many places but wandering around where I was staying to get familiar with the city. Most of the shops here close at 6 PM, China town close at 3 PM. I was wondering what was the smallest dollar did they have. Because yesterday I visited three shops to buy stuffs and they all rounded up the price for 1c, also were recorded in the reciepts. I went to Wikipedia and found that their smallest dollar coin was 5c. They might have just rounded the price up for easy calculation, it's just a guess. People here were nice and I don't have any problem so far. The only bad thing I had experienced so far was that my luggage, it's Da's to be honest, was not be able to lock properly. I still had to find a repair shop and I wondered if I need to take a half day off to locate it, because, as I told you before, most of them close at 6 PM. This was good and I liked it, people should have their relax time with families or any other activities. Spending less than eight hour and get a reasonable pay is what I am trying to do but I can't see how I can reach to that point.