Funny Words and other Nuances

I walk down the street and I walk to the right, correct?!  WRONG....hello Tiffany, you aren't in American anymore, if they drive on the left you walk on the left.  After walking on the right for a day or two I now realize I was the rude one that I'm sure people were cussing under their breath.  Oops--honestly I didn't put two and two together.  I'm starting to question my intelligence, seriously!  

I've been here less than a week and I've had to write down words that are different so I know when someone uses one I know what they are actually saying.  Here are the words I've encountered so far; 

Australian Word/American Translation

Holiday=Vacation

Motorway=Highway

Lift=Elevator

Bloke=Man/Guy

Sheila=Woman/Girl

I've also noticed that where we would put a z in a word they put an s.  Examples; 

Australian Spelling/American Spelling

Organisation/Organization

Authorisation/Authorization

It's funny, as I typed those words spell check corrected them and put a z (and I thought I was losing my mind when I kept coming across these words at work).

What I have noticed so far is that people are UBER nice.  

Today I went apartment hunting.  I feel like I'm house hunting all over again, except one bedroom apartments are all pretty much the exact same.  The ONLY thing that differentiates them are the views.  Do I want a city view or a river view?  I'm starting to get my bearings with where things are and it's nice because all of the streets going one way are guy names and the streets going the other way are all girl names.  I currently live on Elizabeth street, but will I move to Felix street or Charlotte street?  Decisions, decisions.  The lady that was walking me through the different apartment complex's was asking me questions about my life and towards the end she said it was refreshing listening to me talk because she enjoyed my accent so much.  My new thing to say to people when they ask where I'm from is, I hear I have an accent, but I just don't hear it - haha!

I don't have any fun pictures to share today because I haven't done anything exciting lately but work.  4 day weekend coming up so I'll have lots to share afterwards.

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