A Few Facts About Australia vs. Canada

Here is a list of a random things about Australia and Canada:

• School year started last week in Australia and it starts in September in Canada
• Labour Day is this weekend (I am going away and will write more about that later). It's not in September, when it is in Canada
• People hate cats here and call them feral
• In Australia, summer is now coming to an end, while winter is coming to an end in Canada
• In Canada you call them green peppers, here they are capsicum
• Australians don't call them shrimps, they call them prawns. So no one ever says, "put another shrimp on the barbie" - this is a lie.
• Australians do put sausages on the barbie and serve them with white bread and 'dead horse' (which is what they call ketchup, although they never call it ketchup, they call it sauce which apparently rhymes with horse. Try saying it out loud).
• Gas is called petrol and it is super expensive, $1.17 a litre
• Both Canada and Australia did nasty things to our indigenous peoples
• Both Canada and Australia believe we are superior to our neighbours
• Both Canada and Australia have capitol cities that are not the biggest cities, are a bit weird and full of bureaucrats
• We are both commonwealth countries (although Australia, like the US has a convict past, while Canada sent some nasty French rebels here)

Well, that's all come to mind right now. I will write more about my weekend away and the love of festivals. The one this weekend will be my third in a month.