This is the first time
for me to go abroad, so plenty of things are new for me. It is easy for me to
find differences between Japan and Australia.
First, I was surprised at public transportation. It is the same as Japan
that buses and trains are the main transfer though trains are more popular than
buses in japan. The most surprising means of transportation is ships. There are
no great river in Japan that ships are
sailing along and many people use them to commute like the Brisbane River.
Moreover, I was also surprised at the buses. In Japan, there are indication in
the buses which tells us the next bus stop for us to know when we should push
the button. However, there is no such indication in buses here in Brisbane. I
was so confused and insecure about taking buses at first.
Second, there are some differences in food and prices. There are some
bigger food here than Japan. The price is also big, I mean, high. To take an
example, looking at a bottle of coke is easy to see the difference in food
prices. In Australia, the price of one bottle of coke is $3.5 in supermarkets
while that is roughly $1.5 in Japan.
Lastly, I want to write the most annoying thing, is different so much
from Japan. It is a wild animal. Every morning, I heard strange calls from
outside. They are from wild birds (I don’t know their names) and I had never
heard such big calls before.
I
have experienced lots of things. Not everything is good, but I enjoy most of
them.
