Random Rants

Last night I gave up my Italian class and tickets to the ACO to attend the Socceroos vs Kuwait match. The match was good in the sense that we won.....but we also played like a bunch of amateurs compared to the World Cup Socceroos squad. There was no direction or focus in their play. I knew the team will be different, but not that different. Still, I jumped and cheered until I almost passed out when they scored their 2 goals. Lets just hope they find a good coach soon and build up a squad like we had at the World Cup.

On another note, they had 3 Black Hawk helicopters going through the city for training yesterday. Apparently it also happened on Monday, but I was out during lunch time and somehow missed it. I just remembered sitting at my desk, totally absorbed in a document I was reading, when all of a sudden I head a "fump fump fump" type sound, everything in our office started vibrating. I look out the window to see HUGE shadows fall onto the buildings around me and I started panicking. I didn't run around screaming or anything, but my initial reaction was that we were under attack. That its 9/11 in Australia. My heart was going 3 times the normal speed and the blood drained from my face. I run to the window only to see military helicopters fly within a few meters from our building. They were so close I could see the identification numbers on them! Apparently they had warned some people (I think in the morning news or something) about the training exercise, but as I didn't know about it, I thought it was the end for us.

Its quite sad that because of what is happening around us, we automatically think the worse is going to happen. I remember as a kid, I would be so happy and excited to see a helicopter in the sky. To see any sort of jet zoom through the air. Somewhere along the line, I guess it was 9/11, I lost that part of me. Its been replaced with fear. If I see any sort of military aircraft or helicopter floating around, my first reaction is that there is a threat to the country and something is going to go *Kaboom* around me. Maybe I used to be naive and think we were all safe.....maybe we WERE all safe back then.....I just wished things could go back to the way they used to be. But then maybe I'm being naive now for even thinking that.....