AustraliaAAA!!!!

I'm so excited to be here and enjoying it! My billet family is wonderful and the school looks great and lots of things are planned for the next few weekends J

So I've been sleeping off my jetleg, we are 13 hours ahead of Canada so it's Sunday morning at 8:30ish so it is Saturday night at 7:30ish in Canada….weird.

Getting used to the accents is not bad as long as they don't talk very fast and some of the words they use for various things differ from ours so you get used to some new words for things. Here are some of the differences:

Canada Australia

counter (as in kitchen counter) - bench

right away - straight away

lots - heaps

think - reckon

slot machines - pokies

ground hamburger - mince meat

side walk/walk way - foot walk

parking lot - car park

mall - plaza or shopping center

grocery store - super market

Yield - Give Way

shopping cart - trolley

rental car - hire car

prep - kindergarten

$ Their money is also hard to get used to because they have .50$ coins that are bigger than our twoonies and they have .20$ coins and NO pennies – nothing worth 1 cent, everything is rounded to the 5 cent. The neatest thing about their money and it feels weird handing someone a nickel size coin to pay for something because the coin it worth $2 and small like a nickel.

The food here is good and similar to home but they do have Kangaroo Meat in the grocery store , super market, Vegemite that I think only Australians like and Crumpits which are spongy, doughey bread.

Stay tuned for more on Australia and the Adventures that will come!