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A cocker spaniel X poodle, which we Aussies would call a Spoodle, here they call a "Cockapoo". That one always cracks me up.

The "jumper" thing catches me out a lot.

I find that at work no-one knows what a "quote" is - as in an estimate of fees.

And there's no iced chocolate here, so in summer I'm outta beverage options since that's all I like to drink.

As a chef there are different names for food which was a lot to adjust to. Rocket is arugula, coriander is cilantro, rock melon is cantaloupe, dinner rolls are biscuits, tarts are pies (hearing of a caramel tart shocked my friends, they couldn't understand what kind of caramel would go inside it), chips are fries and heaps more. It took me a good month to get used to it and I even pronounce certain things their way just to make my life easier. Basil: Bay-zil, Shallots: Shall'its.

It's the boys at work's favourite passed time, we even spent almost 3 hours asking "what do you call ____ in Australia?". The hilarious part is that they come up with what they THINK we would call them (making fun of course). A broom should be called a "bristly stick", a seagull should be called a "squawker". There have been times during the shift where I'll literally be in tears of laughter, not to mention one of the boys' Aussie accent sounds like a drunk British Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons. My nickname there is 'Pelican' from the scene in Crocodile Dundee where he's driving on the wrong side of the road and yells "Get off the road ya Pelican!". 'Taking the piss' is lost on them, and it took me five minutes for one of the boys to figure out what I was trying to say when I said "thorough" because I say 'thurrah" as opposed to "thurrow"

I was asked if Steve Irwin was a national treasure. It cracks me up. I didn't expect for their to be so many cultural differences and language differences hahaha.

On the other side of things I find myself using Canadian words for things.

Pop, touque, toke, loonie, twonie, washroom, Cooler, Sleeve, Double-double (all the time!), Eh (after aboot every 3rd sentence), two-six, fourty, mickie.

I'm turning Canadian haha.