Intro to the Wine Industry

We started classes! (Yes, that means I now know what I'm taking)  I'm taking a class on the Australian Wine Industry.  We have class 3:30-8:30 on Mondays and 10-1 on Tuesdays.  It's a lot of class time Monday, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.  It's also only for 4 weeks that we'll actually be using those times so that's not a big deal. Kate and Gaynor, who teach the class, seem very nice and knowledgeable (good thing for teachers to be).  Although today was all about history (which is not my thing), they did put in many interesting facts.  We have 18 people in class, and I'm hoping this will help me get to know more people and names.  Because class is so long, we get a break for dinner.  However, it's a half hour (today was 20 min) and so we just kind of run upstairs and grab a bite and go back down.  As much as I love nutella and peanut butter sandwiches, they are not very good when scarfed down.  Now I know for the future to either reverse my meals on Mondays, so that I have a relaxed lunch and quick dinner, or to prepare something ahead of time.  It'll be a good time for leftovers too.

Our old world/ new world Haiku (by Sarah, Lindsay, and me):

Old world done by hand.
Oxygen affects the taste.
New world has less rules.

Interesting facts from Kate and Gaynor:

1. A cellar door means a place you do wine tasting and buy wine.
2. The first coffee bars in Australia were opened in Melbourne by Hungarian Jews.
3. Australia is made up of 6 states and 2 territories- they're not quite sure what the difference is.
4. They spell the word 'tons' 'tonnes'.

Oh funny story from this morning.  I went to put more money on my phone, and I paid and signed the receipt and the woman at the register looked at the back of my credit card to compare signatures, but I hadn't signed apparently.  So she asked me to sign so she could compare, I figured she meant in the future.  I signed the credit card and gave it back to her and she checked one signature against the other! I just signed both in front of you lady, of course the signatures are the same! If you really want to check then ask for my ID to see that the name matches.  It made me think of my psych class, about how we do things automatically without thinking.  She did what she always does, just not very smartly.