Boy do the Australian's love their coffee...I get asked anywhere between 1 and 3 times throughout the day if I'd like coffee, no joke. It's very common for one person in a area to walk around and ask others who wants coffee and they go to a cafe and bring back coffee for everyone. I find this FANTASTIC. I don't drink plain coffee so I always say no but sometimes I'll go with a co-worker to a cafe and I'll get my skinny latte (well they don't have sugar free syrup here so I can only get skim milk, which is their skinny). I kinda feel like certain cliques go and get coffee together and I want to be a part of these cliques. Today I got asked by one of the program managers that sits by me if I wanted to go with him and another guy he works with (and I thought, OMG...I'm gonna be a part of their clique), so I said YES, I'll be right over (I was in another building), well somehow our communication failed because I never found them (unless this was a mean joke they were playing on me, but I don't find them to be those type of people). I missed coffee with Ken and Keith today, but I will make sure to tell them to wait by their desks next time, I will come to them and then we can get coffee together. People have caught on to the fact that I LOVE Starbucks, but I have decided to cut back and my co-worker said, no Starbucks today and I said, no--I gotta cut back, I'm gonna have a tea from the galley. No Starbucks is rough--it's like my best friend, ha! My friend Brad sent out a meeting notice to a few of us and every Wednesday we will go and find the coolest coffee shop in Brisbane. I got to pick first and I picked Anthology (I just Googled places nearby, since I am new and in my mind nothing tops Starbucks). My manager and one of the program managers just got back from the States and they told me they don't understand how I can drink our (meaning the States) coffee, it's terrible. The Australian's are snobby about their coffee being so good. Coffee is just coffee to me (to be honest, I like ours better), ha!
Me, Brad, Nigel, Brian, Raj
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