Winter? Already???

Hey, Pauly here, just a quick update.

Two days ago it was Autumn. Yesterday, without any warning, it became Winter. It was crazy. The seasons in China, (and Jinan more specifically) are so distinct. Very different to Australia.

I walked outside in my normal t-shirt and shorts (with trusty mexico belt we all know and love) and everyone was wearing jackets and jumpers and trousers. Then the cool breeze pierced my flimsy clothing. It was so weird cuz everyone was saying to me all day, "why aren't you wearing a jumper" and "aren't you cold???" and I'm like, well I wore clothes like this yesterday, how was I to know the temperature would drop like 5 or 6 degrees to a steady new temperature overnight. I dunno, i think it's gonna keep dropping till dec-jan when the average temp is about -6 to -8. So anyways, i went out bought some trendy new winter clothes today (Robbie, you will be impressed with my new style). Maybe we will post some pics when its gets a little colder. These are super warm clothes so they may not yet be applicable for the current weather, a hoodie should be ok for now. No, these new clothes are for tackling the real cold days ahead. I just got them before the price jumps (apparantly up to 5 x the cost they are now). That's the Goldston in me, always thinking bout things like that. Nice.

So the weather now is pretty much on par with what it was like when we left Australia...the end of our winter. So yeh, our winter clothes we brought with us are holding strong for now. Although our Canadian friends were shocked to hear that we were actually wearing our Australian winter clothes lol.

Ok then, catch up with you in another post someday eh?

Oh and don't worry, we've stopped eating or drinking milk products made in China. Dodged a bullet there eh? Not really though.

Pauly

p.s we do read all of your comments and appreciate them greatly, but we don't always reply cuz we are lazy and we usually read them in our e-mail inboxes and not on the blog. But keep em coming, if you have facebook we'll try to reply there or if u are family, we'll talk to ya on skype or sumthing. BTW, here are the shows we're watching every week (cuz Chinese tv is sooo bad):

Leeching:

Heroes

Sarah Connor Chronicles

Entourage

Eureka

House

How I Met Your Mother

and we just got:

30 Rock Season 1

MAD MEN season 1

Pushing Daisys Season 1

Streaming: NRL finals (and hopefully the world cup but doubtful)

Have already watched Firefly and Serenity too, v good, we recommend!

K, Zaijian!!!

P.P.S here is an awesome painting I found on Digg.com that I want to get blown up and framed when I go back to Australia. So good....