the big australian shout out

So Cait the Aussie just left on vaca and it started bringing home to me the notion of leaving people i really do love like this one...by the time shes back i will be gone and shes here for another semester yet. i dunno we just became close fast and now i feel like one of my best friends is gone. shes been putting up with my being a very homesick negative and whinging(aussie or brit for whining) whore for quite a while now so its time i said thanks..

so out of missing her and just wanting to give props i will now list my favorites of the phrases i learned from the australians in no particular order

budgie smugglers
refers to speedoes, a budgie is a bird

mate
buddy, they really do say it just not all cocodrillo dundee style

hang a piss
take a leak

barely touched the sides
usually reffering to a beer that hardly began to quench ones thirst for beer...

heaps
personal fave it means lots as in oh yeah i spent heaps of time with her right before she left..

Tim Tams
plus this isnt a phrase its a cookie, well they call it a biscuit i think of it more as a fudgy cookie wafery thing, whatever the hell it is its fuckin good.

MISS YOU GROTTY AUSSIE FREAK!!!