You know you're Australian when...

Since I've been here, a lot of you have been really curious as to what Australia is really like. Well it is quite similar to Canada except for the little things that makes a big difference in daily converstions. Most of the time, I find myself disscussing the different terms/slangs than I am about anything else. Just to give you all a little taste of what I'm talking about, I've compiles a list of words...

trading hours = business hours
toilet = washroom
flat = house
theatre = operation (this one took me awhile...I was on a clinical placement at the time)
scratch match = exhibition game
wag classes = skip classes
tomorrow week = next week
fort week = two weeks
thongs = flip flops
singlet = tank tops
jumpers = lab coats, sweaters
capsicum = bell peppers
tomato sauce = ketchup
how you going? = how's it going?
pacers = mechanical lead pencils
Gridiron football = American football
hockey = field hockey (not ice hockey)

The worst thing about Australia is, without a doubt, Vegemite. This stuff has to be the nastiest food EVER, if you can even call it food. It's a spread made of yeast and it's incredibly salty. Just the smell of it is enough to make you gag. Aussies love this stuff as much as I love peanut butter. In fact they think the combination of peanut butter and jam (or bananas, if you're like me) is weird and wrong. That's just messed.