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joveblue
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne
 
2008-05-31, 20:15

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Originally Posted by Windswept View Post
That sounds just... fantastic! They seem to have an innovative business dept. at that university. I honestly can't imagine how much such a trip would cost. Does the university get a discount rate of some kind for the students signing up?
Let's just leave it at "you don't want to know" As far as I know the uni doesn't get any discount although I'm sure the travel agent is looking after them. The uni gives us $500 for going, which is crap all in the scheme of things. The best thing about it though, is it's on a round-the-world ticket, so I basically have free travel within North America, more or less .

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Originally Posted by apple007 View Post
If for no other reason, Americans' love of sports will likely prevent the Metric system from being implemented in the U.S. I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.
Because your football grounds have yards marked out on them?
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