Performing Vocal Ensemble | Choir | Cincinnati, Ohio

Get your backpacks on.

SCSS is heading to Australia!

Linda Gartner announced yesterday at the Welcome Home Concert that 2011 will see the SCSS traveling to The Land Down Under.

Auditions for all choral members will be scheduled in late August 2010. (Schedule an email to be sent to yourself in August 2010 by using this free service!)

Where in the world…?

Head southeast from Cincinnati for about, say… 9362 miles (give or take a mile) and you’ll reach the east coast of the smallest continent on the world.

Australia is an island continent located in the southern hemisphere of our globe between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

What’s In the Land Down Under?

Well, besides 20.3 million ‘Aussies’ (an Australian slang for Australians), you’ll discover some popular icons of this fair country:

Kangaroos

Koala Bear

Sydney Opera House

The Great Barrier Reef

Uluru aka Ayers Rock

Boomerangs & Didgeridoos

Aboriginal Art

Aussie Meat Pies

Akubra Hats

Other Interesting Facts about Australia

• No part of Australia is more than 621 miles from the ocean and a beach
• The Great Barrier Reef has its own mailbox, 45 miles offshore in the Coral Reef. You can ferry out there and send a postcard, stamped with the only Great Barrier Reef stamp.
• Melbourne has the second largest Greek population in the world, after Athens.
• Australia is the only continent on Earth occupied by only one nation
• Emus and kangaroos are among the most recognizable animals of the country. The two animals share an interesting animal fact: neither emus or kangaroos can walk backwards.
• Australia was the first country in the world to have a complete system of bank notes made from plastic (polymer).