December 9th, 2005

08 December 2005 11:10pm BCT

Apple shouted the interns (about 20 max) a free ticket to the San Jose ice hockey. The San Jose Sharks were playing the Canadian team. We managed to get a lift with a girl Ashley works with, she was nice enough to let us 3 pack into her mini cooper and drive us to San Jose for the game.

We met the other interns out the front and got our free ticket and 2 x $5 food/drink vouchers.

Inside, we hit up the food store before we went to our seats. I rocked up and saw Jumbo Hotdog on the list for $4.75 and Large Soda for $4.50 or somthing. Jumbo hotdog sounded awesome so i handed over my food vouchers. What came back shocked me. The Jumbo hotdog was smaller in length then my hand It was so tiny Not much i could do about it though, but decided to grab a pretzel as well. With arms full we went and found our seats.

I ate the hotdog in about 2 bites, and started on the pretzel. Only got 1/4 of the way through the pretzel though before i had to put it down. Damn it was salty, lucky i bought a pepsi as well.

I was seated next to some other dude, who i started chatting to. He was canadian and came to a few games so he said. Once he heard i was from Australia the questions started. Every few minutes he would ask me something about Australia, it went something as follows:

“So you got hockey in Australia”
–insert my reply–
–pause for 2 min–
“So you got ford or chevy in Australia”
–insert my reply–
–pause for 2 mins–
“So you got budweiser in Australia”
–insert my reply–
–pause for 2 mins–

This went on for most of the game, he was a pretty funny guy. At one stage he asked me how many lesbians are in Australia, my reply was “LOL How would i know”, he got a bit of a kick out of that.

He also told me he was an inventor, he has a few patents in the works, one for a toy UFO which floats above your house permanently. :O Keep an eye out for that in stores.

But yeah, it was a lot of fun… the game was ok as well.

With about 10mins to go, my new friend said he had to head off. He stood up and handed me a cd and said “These are some of my tracks, im trying to get a record deal, can you take it back to Australia for me?”. I looked at him blankly and manage to say “oh ok”, he extended his hand and i shook it and he left.

All in all it was a fun night, and i met a new friend who is apparently called Jeff according to his cd cover.

Works going great, everyone is cools. I finally got my apple email today and was flooded with questions on the internal mailing list for the team im on. Mostly about Australian stuff. It was funny and cool.

So yeah, thats about it. Once again its time for bed… sleep then back to Apple i go.

oh! Lunch today i gave in to my temptations and had a mac burger and curly fries again. The funny thing is ive actually lost weight, when i first come over here my watch band didnt fit on my wrist, now it does

Ok, im going to sleep!

EDIT FOR JASON:

There was no information about the game cause it wasnt all that exciting… no fights at all. The guy i sat next to said youll see probably 1 fight every 5 or so games.

The game itself was alright i spose, keeping up with where the puck was is kinda hard. A few of them hit each other into the walls and stuff but nothing that great.

So yeah, The game was good, talking to the guy next to me was better though