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| Seasons... in the Sun | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 6 2010, 11:46:00 PM (336 Views) | |
| AmbroseChick | Sep 6 2010, 11:46:00 PM Post #1 |
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Does anyone else have a hard time wrapping your head around the fact that its September and its Spring? It just hit me the other day when I was changing over my calendar to September that the August photo for the month was a snowscape... I was like why would they put a snow picture in for August?... and then it was like okay duh yes of course because its winter - not that the weather up in QLD is anything like winter.... Maybe thats what has helped to create even more confusion in my brain?  |
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| Bindie | Sep 6 2010, 11:55:25 PM Post #2 |
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So many things just take time. =) |
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| AmbroseChick | Sep 6 2010, 11:58:32 PM Post #3 |
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So true  I guess I only have my husband's experience of moving overseas to guide me and he seemed to have absolutely no culture shock at all when he moved to the US. He took to it like a duck to water. So perhaps thats why I thought it would be a bit of a no-brainer because I felt like I lived a bit in Aussie culture with our marriage... so yeah its the 'little' things that sometimes throw me for a loop.
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| sunshine | Sep 7 2010, 12:30:48 AM Post #4 |
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It feels weird that winter's ending because I felt like it never would, haha. Wellington is just as cold as Hobart, but with three times the rain and wind. At least I got to play in the snow down south last month The seasons still progress in the normal order, so it isn't overly strange or anything, but when I saw chestnuts at the farmer's market in June it definitely reminded me that we were six months out from Christmas. Small gripe: it's a little crazy-making when my partner says "it's the first day of spring" on September 1st (and "it's the first day of autumn" on March 1st, etc). The equinox isn't for another three weeks, this is still "coming into spring". This might just be me, but it still gets to me a little, especially when he backs it up as "the done thing" in Australian culture. 
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| shylady | Sep 7 2010, 09:10:55 AM Post #5 |
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 I know it grates on my nerves, too... "But the EQUINOX....!!!" and then he admits he also has no clue what an equinox IS... 
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| canaussie | Sep 7 2010, 05:03:34 PM Post #6 |
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I'm the same way and I've lived here before so know that the seasons are opposite but it did catch me out the other day. Was also discussing the equinox the other day at work...I don't know how the aussies get that its the first of the month the seasons change. Maybe its easier for them to remember? And I just had a facebook friend ask me if my daughter was on holidays too and when she'll be going back to school. Ahhh, ain't summer here!!
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| caspercorb | Sep 7 2010, 06:16:29 PM Post #7 |
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It still makes all my friends/family back home laugh when I am complaining about the cold while they are all melting in August!!! |
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| crapola | Sep 7 2010, 07:50:42 PM Post #8 |
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blame the brits... |
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| surfermomkelly | Sep 8 2010, 09:09:08 PM Post #9 |
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Nah I'm OK with it now, at first when I moved it was weird as it was summer and I moved to the end of winter/spring, but after a year I get it
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| mamkai | Sep 9 2010, 07:11:38 PM Post #10 |
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It feels VERY strange to me. We arrived in June and had Winter, SPring, Winter, and now I feel like I have been stuck in the cold (relative) forever and want a summer desperately, yet somehow yearn for Autumn. Too weird! I just can't think about the actual month, it makes no sense right now. On Sept 1 as they announced the "1st day of Spring" over and over my first reaction was "do they have a different equinox down here", lol. Of course not, but it made no sense to me the other way around! |
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| Bindie | Sep 9 2010, 07:24:45 PM Post #11 |
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I AM SO HAPPY THAT IT'S SPRING! WHOO HOOO It's been a long, hard winter for me. I don't care WHEN Spring officially begins. Who I am I quibble? JUST BRING IT ON!
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| TerritorianTori | Sep 9 2010, 08:45:42 PM Post #12 |
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Different countries measure seasons differently. In the US and Canada, seasons officially start on the date of the equinox or solstice. In Australia and New Zealand, the official start of each season is on the first of each quarter: March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1. In tropical nations, seasons might be measured by "wet and dry", or not at all! BTW, speaking of the tropics, we've just entered our "buildup"... 
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