Australia Day

With our national holiday falling while were on exchange, there was no way that the Australian exchange students were going to miss celebrating Australia Day. While the day tends to be marked at home with a swim in the pool/ at the beach, watching the fireworks and having a barbecue, we decided to educate the Brits/ Americans/ German on Australian food and culture. We celebrated on the Sunday (25th January) to ensure that we had enough time during the day to make food, and as you can see, we did not do this half heartedly!

We even tried our best to teach the Americans the "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE" chant, and after explaining it we gave it a shot...

Our reactions when they shouted back "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE" instead of "OI OI OI" say it all.

On the menu: gummy koalas, the closest things we could find to ANZAC biscuits and Tim Tams, and some very dodgy lamingtons. Far more successful were the barbecued sausages, , fairy bread, Vegemite on toast and pavlovas. 

We trusted the Americans to make the fairy bread and as you can see, they took their job very seriously.

I've included some screenshotted Snapchats from the day - as you can see, we educated everyone on how to properly write "Australia" for our national day. 

With some green and yellow facepaint (actually eyeshadow) to show how patriotic we are, there was no way that this day was going to disappoint - and it definitely didn't.