Hip Hop and Words Ending in -er

I thought you should know that Hip Hop class is definitely my favorite. We learned a "routine" (and I put that in quotes because everyone in our class is beginners so it was hardly a minute haha) to the Black Eyed Peas song "Imma Be." It was wonderful. I should've video taped it so I could upload it to this blog. hahah it was hilarious :]

So as I was waiting for Photography class today, I was talking with some of the Australians in my Graphic Design classes and they were looking up houses for rent as a kind of joke about renting it and living there with a group of people. It was expensive, about $850 a week, but thats beside the point. We were talking and there were so many times they said things like "wait say ___" or "how do you say ___" and I realized after about an hour of doing this that one of the main differences between American english and Australian english is that we pronounce the "r"s at the end of our words ending in "-er". Australians don't see the need to properly pronounce all their consonants. They leave off the "-er" of these words like mackers, cracker, paper, etc and replace it with an "a." For example: the word McDonalds is shortened to Mackers which is then shortened to Mackas. ridiculous, I know. Same thing for the others. Cracker becomes Cracka, Paper becomes Pape-a. Things like that. They're so "lazy" I guess you could say about their pronunciation that its actually kind of difficult to understand people sometimes. Especially people from New Zealand. I swear New Zealanders don't even speak english. Its Zeanglish. Its so ridiculously hard to understand.

Photography class is definitely one of my other favorites. We're learning mainly about Depth of Focus right now. today we took portraits of other people in the class demonstrating how we can change the depth of focus to include only the person so the background is blurry and gives a nice soft appearance so its more large portions of color and not detail that takes away from the face. I'll post some of the pictures I took at the bottom :] But ya that class is really fun and interesting. Thanks mom and dad for letting me use the nice camera! I promise I'm taking really good care of it!

We're going to the beach tomorrow after our class gets out at noon. If I'm coming to Australia during their summer or end of their summer I will get some color in my transparently white skin. Its annoying when people are asking where Paul is and your confused as to why they can't see you until you realize you're standing in front of a plain white wall.

Anyway, here's a couple of the pictures I took during class today: