Kingdom of Knuffel

With milk and some caramel flavor
I think I will make one when im home

It's strange when people mention Starbucks because people don't drink it here. Maybe Australians are coffee snobs haha. We prefer independent cafes with fancy beans (idk I don't drink coffee).

I actually really enjoy the aroma of coffee but the taste, not so much. I'm more of a tea person.

Yeh, I'm in shock myself because we just saw his father last week for his birthday dinner and he was fine enough to chase a cat. I never know how to help people with their loss. I feel a sense of loss too because his parents are lovely people and they've been very welcoming.

Starbucks is here very populair.. Everyone talks about it, but not everyone buys the coffee. It's not that cheap. Here it's most of the time about the price

I've got 9 ears from the 50 :D

No one even talks about it here haha. We have something called Gloria Jeans which is like Starbucks but I guess the Australian version? Hmm, a small coffee here on campus varies from $3.50 - $4. They're like the size of my hand Note: I have small hands.

@poshi
We've only had starbucks here for few years or so. My younger sister is some kind of starbucks fan while I prefer to never go near it, lol. So I envy you people in Australia. :P That and your awesome accent, which honestly I love the most out of all the different English accents.

I know how that is. The last two deaths in our family (not parents or anything like that, but still closely related and, well, close) are still something I haven't been able to move on from, even though the last one was around 2013 or so. Really messed me up big time. As for how to help? Just be there, that's all you can do. Be their shoulder to cry on or just a silent support. Be prepared to help out with things if needed. For example the last death, which was my grandmother, my mom was pretty out of it the whole time, but she was the main one arranging the funeral. She forgot her credit card in some store or something and I had to run back to get it, which thankfully someone had been nice enough to not steal. I think there were also moments when she didn't really look where she was going so I had to keep an eye on that too. Big and little things like that. Nice gestures. It doesn't have to be anything special, just being there is enough. Because there simply isn't anything else that can be done.

Thanks for the advice Leo. I'm sorry to hear about your losses too, but that advice really helps. I've been very lucky to not experience any deaths of the people close to me. This is a first, although I haven't known his father long. I hate to see people I like/love being hurt. Hopefully I'll be able to sufficiently support them even though I'm fairly new to the family.

Shock is such a foreign feeling for me. It made me surprisingly dizzy?

It seems like Australian accents are very popular. They're all very different depending on which state/suburb you're from. People from Melbourne sound different from people in Sydney. I've got a weird mutant Australian accent and my full blown Vietnamese girl comes out when I switch languages. Sometimes I forget to switch accents when I switch languages. It becomes a mess.

The chocolate thing my sister had me try I recall neither as hot or cold, only bitter as bitter can get

Clearly the solution was more sugar or condense milk (which I love with my Vietnamese coffee).

@poshi
Thanks. But strength and healing to you all there now. It's a long progress and different for everyone. I've been to maybe 4 (that I know of) funerals in my life, but it's only the last 2 that hit the hardest (with this last one being the kind where I in a way lost the first of the two all over again). You never actually understand what death is until it takes someone you love. It's also very humbling experience, or for me it was.

I don't deal with things like shock and stress well at all. Both kind of make my entire system go into a sort of "lockdown", locking the me basically away from the bad things, but also preventing me doing things like properly grieving. Problem is I've never been able to unlock myself, which means it alone has turned me into a huge mess.

Yeah, I would imagine they are. I mean it's not exactly a small place and even the small countries have surprisingly many differences with the way people talk and even behave. Lol at "mutant". XD

Except that even with all the alterations possible, I still get hit by bitterness