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		<title>Watching the World Cup in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to watch the World Cup in Australia Unfortunately since the World Cup is in South Africa, and the time difference to Australia basically stinks, we get all of the games at midnight and 4am. Doesn&#8217;t make for a very good work day after having an all nighter  to watch the World Cup! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher Salary Benefits in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching in Ontario (Canada) is brilliant for a number of reasons; the pension&#8217;s reputedly one of the best in the world, and the teacher salary benefits: massage, dental, optometry, even orthopedics! &#8212; are something to write home about. But of course traveling the world is kind of amazing&#8230;and a developing&#8211;or feeding, for some!&#8211;your sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROOTS Clothing? Don&#8217;t Pack it for Australia!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 05:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[what to pack to take to Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roots Clothing. We all love it. But in Australia, we don&#8217;t wear it. Here&#8217;s why: &#8220;roots&#8221; is actually a verb in Australia..and it has less to do with a tree sucking up water than it does a &#8216;pig&#8217; sticking his &#8216;snout&#8217; into something &#8216;dirty&#8217;. Uh..yeah. Yuck. But here we have a new term for having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers&#8217; Dress Code in Australia &#8211; What you need to pack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 05:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After teaching here for 3 years, I can&#8217;t think of an Australian school where the students do not wear a uniform. We seem to gauge teacher-dress by student dress, no matter what society you are from. So I&#8217;ll explain explain what you need to pack when you&#8217;re moving from Canada and coming to teach in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching In Australia—it’s different. Here&#8217;s how&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my first day of a Canadian teacher’s college in 2005, we were told that 95% of teachers quit teaching within their first five years. I haven’t had the same experience living and teaching in Australia. I really believe this is because in Canada, there is so little time to “recover” from long days and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia’s Drunken Culture&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The puke piles in the streets on Monday mornings are very telling. There is a whole troop of zamboni-cleaners who are given fulltime work in an effort to keep up with the consecutive every-20-metre splatters, yet weekend after weekend, their jobs still exist. The newspapers distress about teenage binge drinking, parents wage war with letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Slang: 25 Essential Words and Phrases</title>
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		<comments>http://leadingout.net/blog/australian-slang-25-essential-words-and-phrases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aussie slang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I previously wrote about the unique pronunciation of Australians. Today I’m going to take a look at words or phrases that will confuse the hell out of you. 1. fairdinkum. I’m not kidding, this is a word. It means ‘authentic’. For example, “was $3.49 really the price of that mango?” “Fairdinkum!” 2. far out. This is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Subject of Australian Humour:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Americans will find it abrasive coming to Australia given that Australians tend to &#8220;take the piss out&#8221; (mock) of everything. There is a history of humour between Australians and Australia&#8217;s Aboriginal Peoples (not that I purport to be an expert on history) that goes something like this: &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s have a festival.&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, we&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding the Australian Accent (or Clues to Speaking &#8216;Strine)</title>
		<link>http://leadingout.net/blog/decoding-the-australian-accent-or-clues-to-speaking-stran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aussie accent (fondly referred to by Aussies as &#8221; &#8216;Strine&#8221; &#8211;from the &#8220;LLLL &#8211; less&#8221;, &#8220;RRRRR-less,&#8221; fast way they pronounce the last half of &#8220;Australian&#8221; is a combination of Irish, Italian, Greek, Scottish, English mish-mash. Like the English pronunciation, often the emphasis/stress of a word is on the first syllable. Of course this isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom &#8216;Culture Shock&#8217; in Australia! And tips on Aussie-Speak</title>
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		<comments>http://leadingout.net/blog/classroom-culture-shock-in-australia-and-tips-on-aussie-speak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leading Out</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a Canadian in Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australian accent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian teachers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Australia, I spent my first job curriculum curving and tuning my ear into their accent.   Fights broke out regularly in our playground, and I was lucky if it didn’t happen in my classroom. My class was a sort of bike-crashed, cut-up and scabbed lot with teeth, and uniform going everywhere, suggesting that they were [...]]]></description>
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