Prize Week

This week I feel like I've been winning all sort of prizes! I've been in product training at work all week, and to keep us interested there have been games, quizzes etc. I won four times, once solo, twice in team based quizzes and also for a team play-dough model (don't ask). Nothing valuable of course, but stuff like a cook book and movie tickets.

Then today I went to a talk about Sydney's drinking customs, including pub architecture, stories of the Rum Rebellion and the Six O'clock swill, and the gangster connection, including the recently deceased Abe Saffron. I won one of the Lucky Door prizes, an appropriately themed prize of a card pack with 52 pubs of Sydney described (and more importantly located on a map). Our SnB pub is not listed, but the pub where we had our training group dinner during the week was.

Due to having international people flying in for the product training a night out at the Australian Hotel, at the Rocks was arranged. The organisers thought it would be a great idea to get kangaroo and crocodile pizzas, but many people were hesistant to try them. Some of the locals were hesistant to eat "Skippy" and we then had to attempt to explain the cheesy TV show to the visitors. It was quite amazing to see how a discussion of a ridiculously dextrous mammal with the ability to communicate about smugglers and mine shafts could bring together a bunch of people.