Culture Shock!!!!

On the surface Australia seems to be just like america but with a funny accent and an obsession with cricket. In fact, it is completely different. I thought the easiest way to portray this would be a "what the f*%k...." list, full of the things we have learned in the past couple weeks.


When looking for pancakes and hashbrowns we stumbled upon a place that sells another kind of breakfast combo. hotdog, donut, and coffee for $4.50

People still love their Utes. aka el caminos or car trucks.

When there is a holiday people take a month or more off.

They have an official "Lambassator" with a tv ad campaign making sure you eat lamb on Australia Day, the most important day of the year.

They love holidays here, so dont expect to get anything done during the month of January.

Trains are easy, buses are hard

When eating a a restaurant and you see fried black fungus on the menu, no worries its just your regular ol mushrooms. yummmmmmm.

Don't be fooled by the look of Hungry Jacks, its just Burger King in disguise.

So much for Subway's 5 dollar foot long song. They are $7 here. I tried to sing the song... nobody got it, they just stared at the weird american and said..... Toasted of not??

When you order chips you get a fatty tray of french fries.

If you can walk into a building dont be fooled, it may cost money to get out..... NO JOKE!! $16.50 to
be exact.

If you have a chronic runny nose... no worries mate. ALL restaurants here skimp on napkin costs and just use tissues.

At the Uni (thats what they call college) you get 6mb of internet per day. It lasts about 3 minutes if you browse like an american.

Apple somehow tricked thousands of people into buying iPhones without being able to use the internet on them.

"In general Australia is where America was 30 years ago" - the IT guy at the Uni.

If you dont like organic and you dont like conventional, once again no worries they have "in the middle bananas" and they are marked with red wax. Im still not quite sure what "in the middle" means and neither does the man working the produce department. but hey they have them.

The grocery store has a dog food section full of better meat than what we eat. Ashlin would be in heaven.

Well thats it for now. im sure I will have a 2nd edition post for this.....