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Monday, October 14th, 2013

Back to School!

Today was the first day back to school to start the beginning of Term 4.  They have new "summer uniforms" and part of the required uniform for school is a hat.  This is to protect them from the sun and from attacking birds.  No, I'm not joking. Attacking birds.  Of course in Australia they call it "swooping" and not "attacking."  But let's just call it like it is.  Attacking.

Allowance

This past weekend we started giving the kids allowance.  We are giving them $3 a week. (In Australian currency) Fifty cents of their allowance is put into "savings" and fifty cents is set aside for "giving."  Well of course their $2 they had left was burning a hole in their pocket.  Erich took them to the mall to shop at the cheapy store. (Like a dollar store but since everything here is more expensive, it costs more than a dollar) Below they are showing off their purchases. 

A New Word

I was searching a website of an Australian store.  When I went to narrow my search, I saw this:

Haberdashery?  What?!! What a funny word. I had to look it up.  Apparently it is a word not commonly used in the U.S. (you don't say).  It has a couple of different meanings.  It could be a store that sells sewing goods like thread, ribbon, buttons. It could also be a store that sells "men's furnishings."  (define men's "furnishings" for me)  Now, maybe all you guys already knew the word.  This gal didn't.

Bacon

You might remember my post about bacon.  Bacon is different here.  So when I saw this,

I got excited.  I mean it has an American Flag on it!  It should taste like American bacon, right? It sorta smelled like American bacon.  It kinda looked like American bacon.

But I am here to tell you that I have NO IDEA why there is an American flag on that package of bacon.  It didn't taste like American bacon at all. AT ALL!  FALSE ADVERTISING! (I couldn't even eat it.  But everyone else did.)