Hioncoffee II on 5/1/2006 at 00:20
you don't.
2005 was just declared the hottest year on record in australia with an average around 25°C
Naartjie on 5/1/2006 at 00:40
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Oh my god. How do you do anything in that kind of heat?
It's really not too bad if it's dry heat. It's humid heat that's teh gh3y.
Agent Monkeysee on 5/1/2006 at 00:44
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It's really not too bad if it's dry heat. It's humid heat that's teh gh3y.
It's amazing how big a difference it makes too. When I got back from a vacation in Key West it was actually about 10 degress hotter in Seattle than it was in Florida, but it felt so incredibly refreshing because the humidity was like 90% lower.
Scots Taffer on 5/1/2006 at 04:06
But dry heat can be a real killer though... In WA, the weather is more of this kind and I found that your mouth gets parched in seconds, a normal breeze (that in humid conditions is a nice respite) turns into a super heated blast like it's from Hell, you sweat buckets and there's not even much of a temp drop in the shade. I must admit, I'm one of those weirdos who prefers the sticky humid conditions to the dry arid conditions.
Either way though, the heat's got me buggered. I'm dropping into bed around 9pm and waking up around 11 hours later after each day spent walking kilometres in the sun (or in the balmy heat under the cloud canopy) looking for a place to live.
Unfortunately renting in Brisbane is divided equally into two areas:
- really big, creaky, wooden houses usually with a big yard or a massive back deck for entertaining, but zero mod-cons
or
- really cramped, stone-built, modernish apartments/townhouses with practically no storage space but mod-conned to the fucking teeth (hey aircon throughout whole house :cool:)
Hrrrr. It's hard, but I think despite our desire for a big place, for this first rental period of 6-12 months, I think we need the modcons. It'd be nice not to have to buy a shitload of appliances on top of bedroom and living room furniture too. Also, with wifey coming up for the 7.5mth pregnant stage, I think she needs a cool haven from the summer heat...
Choices, choices, choices... But yeah, still lovin' it.
Scots Taffer on 5/1/2006 at 06:16
I'm actually starting to look at the latin clubs now... I was fairly unimpressed by the salsa put on by the folk down at the South Bank street party on Hogmanay, it was LA true enough, but very amateurish (with the exception of a couple of teachers).
Rio-rhythmics, eh? So you're in Brisbane too?
Scots Taffer on 5/1/2006 at 07:15
You'd be surprised. I adapt quickly.
I'm looking around, but so far colour me disappointed. Cuban salsa is vastly underrated in the western world in general and I must admit that I find that cultural boundaries abound, such as the unwillingness to do very earthy movements that would be commonly referred to as "black dancing" (by those who give such labels) and the preference for a ballroom style rigid-body twirling and prancing that's - let's face it - is far easier to do. BODY MOVEMENT? Personally, my hips are rarely moving, it's all upper body ribcage and footwork, oh and arms to. And head turns. Those speak the biggest volumes. Hips are easy... that's why the females get that. :p
Also let me interject - I'm concluding from a number of hints in your posts that you're male (it can still go wrong with (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1356830#post1356830) polygendral types wanting to be deliberately ambiguous ;)) - therefore might I add that hip-sway is minimal in cuban salsa, perhaps not so in LA-style but I'm too busy laughing at the prancing and the generally hilarious air of pretension they lend to simple timba music.
It'd be hard for me - Mr Scots White Boy Uprooted In Australia™ - to start up my own school without knowing more about the scene and the clientele, but I'll be buggered sideways before I pay more than $100 for some 8-week course of LA-prancing or pseudo-cuban garbage. I dance at the advanced level and I'd need an advanced cuban teacher to further me, otherwise it's more beneficial for me to push myself privately (lol, euphimism) through renting dvds (omg it gets better) and seeking out private tuition (rofl ... wait, it's only me that's getting this, yeah?).
ANYWAY... so to cut a long story short, not by choice, I'm going to have to wait to see the lay of the land. I've made preliminary grumbles about a cuban salsa school that has been well enough received by a representative of the latin contingent. So that's good, at least.
Risquit on 5/1/2006 at 08:38
Would love to have heard Fluke's take on all this :)
Scots Taffer on 5/1/2006 at 08:58
Risquit: probably something hilarious about dancing pom poofters then he'd ask me to come up and visit so we could get drunk and then he could knock me out. ;)
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Well shows how much I know about salsa; nothing of cuban salsa. I might watch you sometime and change my mind :D - and you're at an advanced level already!? And starting up your own school! Ye Gods. I thought you merely started a year ago.
What can I say... I'm <strike>modest til the end</strike> shit hot. :cool:
Jennie&Tim on 5/1/2006 at 15:47
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Hrrrr. It's hard, but I think despite our desire for a big place, for this first rental period of 6-12 months, I think we need the modcons. It'd be nice not to have to buy a shitload of appliances on top of bedroom and living room furniture too. Also, with wifey coming up for the 7.5mth pregnant stage, I think she needs a cool haven from the summer heat...
Choices, choices, choices... But yeah, still lovin' it.
Glad to hear you're happy with Australia. Pregnancy makes your metabolism soar, and you're warm anyway; go with the A/C for your wife's sake. Also, I don't know how such heat affects infants with their small body mass. OTOH, a nice cool basement is good for staying comfortable too, if one of the big places has one.
With all these poisonous critters, I begin to wonder that Aussies don't carry a broom to sweep in front of them with every step; a bit like those dungeon adventures where a ten-foot pole saved you from the inevitable traps.
Shadowcat on 6/1/2006 at 01:54
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Also, I don't know how such heat affects infants
It's pretty severe. They invariably acquire a distractingly nasal accent, and a propensity for shouting "Oi! Oi! Oi!" at sporting events ;)
