I am happy to say that finally after many years of waiting, they now have a better variety of deodarant in Australia.
It used to be that the only deodorant/antiperspirant you could find in Australia was roll-on or spray. Now have you ever tried going from the nice dry stick, back to roll-on or spray. It [...]
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Eating with Australians – Etiquette
1) Plate
2) Tea
3) Supper (link to http://leadingout.net/blog/2008/11/05/australian-slang-25-essential-words-and-phrases/comment-page-1/#comment-1034)
4) Bring something first time, second time, try to cook, alwyas offer to help clean up
5) eating out: dutch
As I’ve previously posted, there are a number of Australian ‘meal’ terms that will be unfamiliar to North American visiters in Australia.
Bringing a ‘plate‘ is the Australian [...]
Here are a few key terms and some points to note about accommodation in Oz and NZ (Australia and New Zealand):
Self-contained: this is one of the Australasia’s best gifts to tourism. They contain a full kitchen (what you need to cook ‘with’, ‘in’ and ‘on’: pots, utensils, stoves/fridges). You will literally have everything you need [...]
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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 neither [...]
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