Finally, after many months of preparing and waiting, I have arrived in Aussieland!

Looking back in time from when I found out that I was going off to Australia to when boarding the Boeing airplane for a 16-hour flight from California, I've been through a helluva lot just to get to Sydney! To mention a few: a shit job, an amazing job, Walt Disney World in Florida, studying like mad, losing my wallet in the airport for 5 minutes and the World's Worst Landlords. But, I survived the good, the bad and the ugly.

Regardless, I'm glad to be out of the (once) harsh cold winter of Canada to the warm summer of Australia.
It has only been five days since the arrival, yet I've already met a lot of new people and discovered a lot of new things. I'll end off with a little sample:

• 'Ketchup' is actually called 'Tomato'; ie. Tomato Chips
  
• Tomato Chips don't actually exist in Australia
  
• Everyone drives on the left side of the road
• Unconsciously looking left to cross the road = Dangerous!
• Some Aussie's are hobbits - don't wear shoes in public
• Cereal clumps popularly come rectangular
• 'Bar Hopping' is also known as 'Pub Crawling'
  
• 1:30 is actually 'One-half' when telling time in Irish
• 'Type A' personalities are an@l
  
• Bats CAN attack
• A transit system exists that is actually worse than the TTC