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Reflecting Thoughts on Australia.
I'm now in Singapore relecting back on Australia and if travelling has changed me yet and if it will. I have become used to eating food with sand in it (Fraser Island) and Just picking random ants and other un-namable insects out of my drink and finishing my beverage. I can now cope with sleeping in filthy hostels, whereas I may have turned my nose up and complained about staying in these places before. I wear factor 30 suncream when I used to just concentrate on getting as dark as possible. I now am looking after myself, trying not to burn, get cancer and age.... or maybe this is me getting older! Infact I do find myself reading Womens Health magazines now instead of the celebrety gossip (which I still love by the way!) I feel ashamed to even write this, but I used to actaully shout at my Mum if my favourite jeans werent washed and ironed in time for the weekend at home, how spoilt is that? I didnt even know how to work the washer and the dryer, I NEVER did my own washing or even washed up my own plates after eating! A big sorry to my Mum who bore the brunt of my stressedness at work and spoiltness as a daughter. I will be a changed woman when I get back, I will do the washing, I will do the ironing, and I will do the washing up! Looking back I needed a good slap! Okay so we have established that I have aged and I have grown up and appreciated the things I have. My god do I think our house is clean after stayin in some hell holes in Australia (and now even worse in Singapore) The clothes you get to wash your cuttlery and crocker are crawling with flies and smell revolting, I choose to just wash with my hands and maybe a tissue, I dont dare use the tea towls that have been there for months so I let them just drain! Cockroaches, frogs and spiders in the showers, no toilet paper, some random persons poo stains all up the toilet which no-one wants to clean! Dirty sheets and bacteria flowing carpets to name a few! I will now progress to tell you some things that are different in Austrailia to the UK.
Things you didnt know about Austrailia
1) They point to the floor with their index finger as a way of hitchhiking, instead of the most common thumbs up. How strange!
2) They never let anyone out when driving, you can be there for some time and have to wait for the end of the line of cars before you can go!
3) The insist that football is called soccer, which surprisingly angers me!
4)I dont think they all know what 1/2 seven is or 1/4 past 3. some cant comprehend so you have to say seven thirty and three fifteen!
5)The fish is very expensive in eateries even though it is very common and populour. From the butchers it is $2 for a bit of Hoki and you expect to pay $25 in restaurant!
6) It bloody rains in Australia!
7) Will think of more and get back to you!
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