listage...
Via girliejones and exp_err ...
- Heard a kookaburra in person
- Slept under the stars (um, am counting the time we camped on a slope and in the morning I discovered I'd mostly slid out of the tent)
- Seen a koala
- Visited Melbourne
- Watched a summer thunderstorm
- Worn a pair of thongs
- Been to Uluru (Ayer's Rock)
- Visited Cape York
- Held a snake - at the zoo in Singapore (heh, me too - although someone brought a Children's Python around to uni too I think)
- Sang along with Khe San - only in my head
- Drank VB
- Visited Sydney
- Have seen a shark - dived with blacktips at Barrier Reef (not deliberately)
- Have used Aussie slang naturally in a conversation
- Had an actual conversation with an indigenous Australian (aboriginal) - see girliejones discussion... although the listing of people to tick off on a checklist actually kinda amuses me. I'm kinda used to being a "token". I also need a plumber to complete my friend set.
- Eaten hot chips from the bag at the beach
- Walked/climbed over the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Used an outside dunny, and checked under the seat before sitting down
- Seen Chloe in Young & Jackson's
- Slept on an overnight train or bus - Europe and US only
- Been to Sydney's Mardi Gras
- Have gone bush-bashing
- Taken a sickie
- Been to see a game of Aussie Rules football (Dandenong High vs Lyndale Secondary - although now that I think of it I think I actually played a game at high school - there must have been very extenuating circumstances - I had no idea what was going on)
- Have seen wild camels
- Gone skinny dipping
- Done a Tim Tam Slam
- Ridden in a tram in Melbourne
- Been at an ANZAC day Dawn Service
- Watched a sunrise or sunset
- Held a wombat - how about "Hit a wombat"?
- Been on a roadtrip of 800km or more - I have no idea about distances - I thought Perth-Gerro might cover this, but googlemaps says that's only ~420, and then I thought Perth-Kalgoorlie but that's only 600, luckily Melb-Syd is ~850km (I think the WA trips seem longer cos its emptier?).
- Seen the Great Australian Bight in person - from a plane?
- Had a really bad sunburn - year 7 camp at Rotto
- Visited an aboriginal community
- Seen a redback spider
- Have watched Paul Hogan - not in person
- Seen Blue Poles in person - in the 'Ber and London too. There was also a cafe in Melbourne called this, and this.
- Wandered barefoot in the bush/outback - well, barefoot around the tent area...
- Eaten Vegemite
- Thrown a boomerang
- Seen the Kimberleys
- Given a hitch-hiker a lift
- Been to Perth
- Have tried Lemon, Lime and Bitters - is this Australian?!
- Tried playing a didgeridoo
- Seen dinosaur footprints - thought I had at a museum, but maybe they were casts?
- Eaten Tim Tams
- Been to Darwin
- Touched a kangaroo
- Visted the Great Barrier Reef
- Listened to Kevin Bloody Wilson.
- Killed a Cane Toad
- Gone to a drive-in theatre.
- Have read and own books by Australian authors
- Visited Adelaide
- Know the story behind "Eternity" - isn't that a perfume?
- Been camping
- Visited Brisbane
- Been in an outback pub
- Know what the term "Waltzing Matilda" actually means
- Gone whale watching
- Listened to Slim Dusty - have heard Slim Dusty, but not deliberately listened?
- Own five or more Australian movies or TV series
- Sang along to Down Under
- Have stopped specifically to look at an historic marker by the side of the road
- Eaten a 4'n'20 pie - made our own meat pies the other week - they turned out great
- Surfed at Bondi
- Watched the cricket on Boxing Day
- Visited Hobart
- Eaten kangaroo - CIG made Thai Roo Salad on Friday
- Seen a quokka
- Visited Canberra
- Visited rainforests
- Used a Victa lawnmower
- Travelled on a tram in Adelaide
- Used a Hills hoist
- Visited Kata Tjuta (the Olgas)
- Used native Australian plants in cooking
- Visited the snow
- Chosen a side in Holden VS Ford
- Visited the desert
- Been water skiing - only got to the knee-boarding
- Read The Phantom
- Visited Parliament House
- Gone spotlighting or pig-shooting
- Crossed the Nullarbor - in a plane ;-)
- Avoided swimming in areas because of crocodiles
- Listened to AC/DC
- Called someone a dag
- Voted in a Federal Election
- Have been swimming and stayed between the flags
- Had a possum in your roof
- Visited the outback
- Travelled over corrugated roads - on fieldtrip last week
- Hit a kangaroo while driving
- Been well outside any mobile phone coverage - on fieldtrip last week
- Seen an emu
- Have woken to the smell of bushfires
- Subscribed to RRR / RTR
- Patted a pure-bred dingo
- Seen the Oils live - seen the Cat Empire though! AND Silverchair!
- EXTRAS
- seen the Australian Ballet - how about Bangarra, Chunky Move, or the Sydney Dance Company?
- many Australian written, produced and acted plays - a bit of Bell Shakespeare,
- I frequent the outdoor cinema - Sidney Myer, Luna, Kings Park, the Pines, ...
- enjoy foreign film - MIFF!
- made a drunken idiot of one's self in a foreign country - totally, was only the US though ;-)
- - told people who criticised anything about Australia to f*&k off back to their own country
- - driven drunk
- - driven blind drunk
- - driven blind drunk more than once a week
- - made a racist/sexist joke, remark or gesture, then told someone they have no sense of f&*king humour when they got offended
- - called someone unaustralian because they said something you disagreed with - was de rigueur amongst my friends for a while there...
- * Seen a performance in the Opera House.
- * Swam in the Swan River
- * Paddled a canoe along the Yarra
- * Commuted from your parents place to uni
- * Taken a bus trip in your bathers
- * Spent Australia Day at a Hottest 100 party