With these many people in the house, there's bound to be chaos and activity. The regular, daily ones we do together are eating, watching movies - any kind of movies Bollywood, Hollywood, old, new, we don't discriminate. We can watch up to 5 movies a day.
Another thing we try to do is travel to nearby places. We take our own food and have fun there. Great Ocean Road, Grampians, Ballarat, Mount Bullar, Sugar Loaf, were some of our trips.
Pro-sumerism is an emerging trend I see in the community. They're into filming themselves, making home videos and putting it on sites like YouTube and also watching similar films.
Music and dance is our way of letting out frustration. Songs are initiated by our 'guitar kumar', Chandu, and we have the odd dance nights at home. "We'd have a dance party every weekend without fail eariler, now it's reduced", says Mona. This is one of the highlights of the community, along with food.
The best time was when we made pani puris one night. We were consulting Mona over the phone. 1 person was making balls, 2 people rolling, 1 person passing and 2 people frying the puris. Perfect division of labour.
Most of the members are so active within the community, that they rarely socialise with others. "I sometimes feel our interaction with Aussies socially is pretty limited. We mostly come in contact with other Indians." says Guddu. On rare occasions, like exam times, everyone is seen with books. I haven't seen any clashes of one wanting to do one thing, and someone else another. Everyone comes to some kind of a compromise pretty quickly, which is amazing. It's an essential part of the community's Problems & Processes .
