Watching Mary Poppins was instantly refreshing.
When you’ve had business, business, business and economics cramped into your already intense three weeks in a huge, busy economy like Australia, you begin to wonder if there were other things that mattered in people’s lives than the many faces of money.
An unexpected and rather pleasant surprise was in store for me as I reluctantly walked with our group down the road from our Sydney hotel to the Capitol Theatre on a cold early May evening.
Our chaperone Helen Musa kept reminding us of how lucky we were that “a rich entrepreneur” was kind enough to donate 10 tickets for us to go and watch Mary Poppins and how we were sure to enjoy the show.
“You’re very lucky,” she said. “These tickets cost about A$100 each.”
After a hectic program in Canberra during the first two days of the week going to the national budget reading, museums, parliament tour not to mention the jerky ride around the Parliamentary precincts looking at different embassy buildings, I was too exhausted to care.
Mary Poppins? On our very first day in Sydney? Come on!
