After welcoming his replacement and showing the usual courtesies (gin and tonic, cucumber sandwiches etc) that protocol decrees, the retiring colonel ...said, "You must meet my Adjutant, Captain Smithers, he's my right-hand man, he's really the strength of this office. His talent is simply boundless."Smithers was summoned and introduced to the new CO, who was surprised to meet a humpbacked, one eyed, toothless, hairless, scabbed and pockmarked specimen of humanity, a particularly unattractive man. "Gooo Gah?" came out of my mouth.She slapped me across my cheek. Tears welled up again and I decided to bequiet. She brought out a make up bag and started to rub virtually whitefoundation all over my face and bald head. I must have looked even moreridiculous, a white head on top of the frilly dress! Next she took aneyebrow pencil and drew on eyebrows above where mine would have been."Close your eyes," she demanded. I did as I was told, but just before sawpale blue eyeshadow being put on a. Western Australia is in a crucial position. In terms of natural resources. iron and nickel ore, for example, we're wealthy. We've also been blessed with the wheatbelt and the forests and vines in the southeast. But we're plundering our resources. We're over-using the water. We've introduced alien species. And we're building in places that may well be metres under water in a few decades." I paused. "Is that enough?" Enough for me," the producer said. "You're going to scare me to death." He. Außer ihr reist niemand alleine. Unter den Passagieren befinden sich auch einige schwarze Männer und zwei schwarze Frauen. Pia vermutet, dass es Einheimische sind.Als Ihr Flug aufgerufen wird, wartet Pia, bis alle Passagiere eingestiegen sind. Sie betritt das Flugzeug als letztes und sucht ihren Platz. Sie sitzt ganz hinten in der letzten Reihe. Dummerweise hat die Mitarbeiterin der Fluglinie ihr den mittleren Platz in einer Dreierreihe am Fenster gegeben. Ein anderer Platz war nicht mehr frei..