Penola: The Biggest Little City in Lower Southeast Southern Australia

So yesterday I arrived in the city where I will spending the next 3 months or so: Penola, South Australia. This emerging metropolis has a booming population of 1,200 people. I can only assume that I will be the only American in town, for better or worse. I have yet to check out the town but I'm sure I'll have a few minutes free later today to handle that. I only pray that there is at least some sort of pub nearby where I can occasionally grab a brew. Luckily, it sounds like there will not be much down time before I start working as grapes are already coming in 2 days.

On the plus side the little mobile broadband thing I got seems to be working well so communication with the outside world will still be possible (though I think video skype might quickly use up my data usage, we shall see). I'm living in a medium sized house with an older couple. My room is actually pretty big with a queen sized bed, which is nice. So at least I will sleep well (as you can see I've already neatly made my bed).

My bedroom

Tomorrow I'll hopefully get to find out what exactly I'm going to be doing this harvest. Hopefully it all works out well. Also hope my coworkers are cool otherwise it's gonna be a loner kind of harvest (maybe I can finally write that great novel...."remember that novel? that novel you've been talking about? been talking about that for some time? got yourself a protagonist? beginning, middle and end?" ok, I'll stop).

Well I got nothing else for now. Still got some pretty incredible pics from NZ I need to get up. See if I can't figure that out today.

Oh, and unbeknownst to me, this is actually the Australian national anthem; had no idea: