8 More Days!

Here are a few more random facts I learned while researching the Australian lifestyle:

• Australia has a serious coffee culture (here's where all my $$ is going!), with drinks like "flat white" or "short black"
• People drive on the left side of the road, and I can drive on a California license
• Box jellyfish, prevalent in many Australian beaches, have a deadly sting
• Australians have some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, due to that hole in the ozone
• "No Swimming" sign in the Wilderness, aka the Bush, are there because of all the crocodiles that live there
• There are about 21 million people in all of Australia, compared to the 34 million in CA alone
• Very few H1 marks (80% or higher) are given in the uni's. Passing is 50%.
• Aussies take classes only in their major; in other words, 2nd year Aussies tend to be more advanced in their majors than 2nd year UC students

Australian vocab word/phrase of the day: true blue means genuine