Ten years ago today...

March 14, 1997:
I am now in Australia. It is dry and partly forested, and actually reminds me of central California. I could swear we flew over a normal-fault scarp on the way here, but maybe I'm oversensitized. Everything (cars, toilets, shadows, etc.) goes the wrong way. The stars are amazing- I can see the Milky Way from the suburbs. Orion is upside down, and I saw the Southern Cross. I'm living in a house with three other students- Matthew, Richard, and Shin. A Korean and two Tasmanians. We had a party tonight- met both native and foreign students.