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This Week in America - When Spring in America Feels Different

Episode 62 of the From Down Under to Down South podcast, hosted by Aussie Mike, titled "This Week in America - When Spring in America Feels Different" was published on April 9, 2026 and runs 10 minutes.

April 9, 2026 ·10m · From Down Under to Down South

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Send us Fan Mail This Week in America: Spring Arriving Spring doesn’t arrive all at once in Tennessee. It shows up through small signals. A classroom full of curious first graders listening to an Australian story about wombats. Cars covered in yellow pollen. The distant hum of pressure washers across neighbourhoods. Parents suddenly organising summer camps months in advance. And then the evenings begin to change. Deck lights appear in backyards. People start grilling again. The air warms. And...

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This Week in America: Spring Arriving

Spring doesn’t arrive all at once in Tennessee.

It shows up through small signals.

A classroom full of curious first graders listening to an Australian story about wombats. Cars covered in yellow pollen. The distant hum of pressure washers across neighbourhoods. Parents suddenly organising summer camps months in advance.

And then the evenings begin to change.

Deck lights appear in backyards. People start grilling again. The air warms. And eventually, the fireflies return — tiny flashes of light drifting quietly through the trees.

In this week’s reflection, I share a moment that surprised me: volunteering to read an Australian children’s book to my daughter’s class, and the unexpected warmth of twenty curious seven-year-olds asking questions about kangaroos, wombats, and life on the other side of the world.

It’s also a reflection on something you only really notice when you live overseas — that every place has its own rhythm to the year.

And slowly, almost without realising it, you begin to learn it.

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