I still find it interesting watching Americans visit a country that we in the UK used as a dumping ground for our convicts. Obviously you Americans don't have much concept of history so you probably hold Aussies at a high regard. Over here in the UK, we don't really consider them nor their country
I'm actually not American, despite what my accent would suggest 😂 but you're right, I do hold Aussies in high regard, I've found them to be wonderful people, much like the people I've met in the UK 😊
@@robby1816 Call us what you like. The fact of the matter is, history holds the facts of your heritage. You are the descendants of criminals, and the majority of people in the UK do not respect you people. You have had over 200 years to catch up with the rest of the world, but instead you choose to confirm the stereotype by how you conduct yourselves through out the rest of the world. I have refused to employ people on the basis of them being Australian, irrespective of their qualifications. Just remember your place in this world. You are at the bottom for a reason.
@@katrina_imoya'Its not the heat ,its the humidity' is what people say here. It can add up to maybe 5 degrees to how the temperature feels. Our weather apps all list the humidity and have 2 temperature readings. 'Max temp' and then 'feels like ' because of the humidity.
@kat_ilming From the few times I've stayed in Dubai, it has that dry ' brick wall heat' more like Victoria, SA and WA. The humidity in the wet season of our tropical regions ( NT and Qld) is that dragging, limp rag type. Besides, jet lag makes everything seem heightened, the climate included! You'll readjust soon enough😊
[Laughing] Welcome to Australia, Kat. I'm in Logan, which is about about 80km south of where you are. You seem to be charmed by what you've found here, and I hope when your course is finished you still feel that way about us.
Thank you so much! I've actually finished my course and am back in Europe now, these uploads are just a bit late 🙈 But I can tell you that it was some of the best months of my life honestly, the people are next level kind and fun, and I miss it loads. I definitely hope. to make it back someday soon 🥹
Yes, Australia is a modern first world country, so the water from the tap is drinkable everywhere!! We probably have higher standards for drinking water than the US!!
Welcome to Australia and just to let you know you rarely would run into a snake. They are more afraid of you than you are of it. Enjoy your holiday 🐨🦘🇦🇺
@@katrina_imoyaI had one for a week on side of my clothes line left it there. It disappeared one day and I realised it was most likely a bird ate it 😂😂😂
Your English is brilliant for Australia. Bit of slang and you could pass as an Aussie. Most spiders are harmless it is the ones that do not have big webs to not play with. Redbacks like to live under seats outside you can always find them if you look. Funnel webs are the only other ones, and they just have a tiny web with a funnel in the middle. Both you really have to go hunting for, so you won't see them or be bitten by them. Only real dangerous one is the Sydney funnel web and that is not in QLD. The cooked chicken you bought is called a bachelors handbag.
Haha that's awesome to hear, thank you! That's super interesting about all the different spiders, I've definitely learned a lot about them. "Bachelor's handbag" is a fun name too, I was told people also call it a "tradie's handbag" 😂
Tip - if you think you may be the first person to walk or run along a footpath get hold of a twig or your selfie stick and hold it out in front and up a little higher than your head. This will capture any spiders webs made overnight or in the early hours.
If you like beer, the places to go on The Sunny Coast are Black Flag Brewing, just off the esplanade at Abalooloom (Mooloolaba spelt backwards) on Brisbane Road or their brewery at Coolum Beach. My favourite is 10Toes Brewing either at their brewery on Sugar Rd Maroochydoore, or at Buderim. In brisbane, the best beer, by a long margin, is at Felons.
The official currency of Australia is the Dollaridoo. And, Drop Bears are Real. And, as a former tour guide to K'gari (Fraser Island), Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) & Mingerribah (Nth Stradbroke Island), it is within my authority to Welcome you to Australia. I'm up & back to Sunshine Coast, if you see me at one of the aforementioned drinking establishments, come and say G'day.
Obviously those spiders are not interested in anything at ground level. So you are safe as long as you can’t fly that high or as long as you are not crazy enough to climb up to get a selfie with the group. This is why Aussies don’t fear most spiders. They are not interested in us unless we invade their space or they get inside rooms and we scare them so they run. You may need to buy an insect/spider catcher gadget so you can easily and safely move a spider trapped inside, to the outdoors. Don’t sweat it.
@coraliemoller3896 that's so good to know! I have a very tall friend who nearly walked face first into a web at the bus stop, luckily I'm short so it's not an issue for me 😄
@@katrina_imoya Yeah. Im tallish so that happens to me all the time. It used to freak me out a bit when I was younger but Ive lived in Oz all my life and knowing that all the spiders that spin webs are harmless ,I have just about stopped reacting at all when it happens now. It doesnt even really bother me if a spider in the web I walk into runs across my face because I know its not going to bite me or harm me. 😊
I enjoy first impression videos. I find myself discovering things about my own culture and environment that are so obvious yet I never stopped to think about them before 🤔
That's so true actually, stuff that you find completely normal and then you're surprised that others are surprised 😂 one of my friends was mindblown when I asked what "chooks" are haha
Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast isn't "long distance travel" in Australia. It's classified as "just up the road." If you were catching a train down to Sydney, you would have to book as you described.
@@katrina_imoya drinkable most places onthe coast where its connnected to reticulated treated water. I would say its drinkable 'everywhere'. Out west on the other side of the Great Dividing Range in a lot of places its undrinkable bore water. In parts of Tasmania and North Qld too, its not drinkable due to aging pipes or contamination.
That's excellent! Out of curiosity, what area are you in? I've found the tap water here to be a touch chloriney so I picked up a filter from Kmart and it helped loads.
Love how all the 'Roos are just starring at you like, "who the hell are you?" None of the spiders will hurt you, but walking into a web wrapped around your face isn't fun. Be very careful about snakes though. If you see one just back away. Brown snakes will make you VERY sick if they bite you, and CAN kill you. You probably won't see one but keep your wits about you. They generally like to hide in confined spaces.
Honestly, the roos are the absolute best! There's a papa roo that we see on campus sometimes and we definitely steer clear of him 😆 That's so good to know about the snakes though!
@ Funny, after posting this, about an hour ago I went to get something out of dishwasher and looked to my left and there was a massive Huntsman spider on my kitchen cupboard! Bizarre! I’ve never had one in this house before and hours after I posted about spiders I had one in my kitchen!
a 1hr train trip isnt considered long distance travel here. ur catching a metro train not a country train. A country train you would book a seat for. Aussie money is real money. Those spiders are orb weavers. I like to leave them unless they are in my walkway, they are great at keeping the mozzie population down and it u get the golden orb weaver, his web is gold and glistens in the light, absoluetly beautiful. Spiders are smart, if u break their wb daily, after about a week they will move it.
Ohh okay that's good to know about the trains, yeah it's so easy for me to forget how massive Australia is, people say somewhere is "only 3 hours away" which is wild to me 😄 It's 100% real money (and really nice looking too), I just use that term for any currency outside the one I'm used to. Wow, the gold web actually sounds gorgeous, I have no beef with the spiders even though they look scary, for me it's roaches and mosquitos 😬
The snakes will avoid you as you’re to big to eat and the spiders will pretend they’re dead if you tangle up in their web. I’ve lived in the bush for seventy one years Welcome and enjoy yourself 😁
Train fares are currently 50c per ride in Queensland regardless of the distance travelled. Good time to travel the 1300km to Cairns! It was a bribe by our former state government. They lost the election anyway.
50c fares are only for the Translink network and are not for travel travel train to place like Cairns. Translink services are all the ones that use the GoCard, so any public transport from Nambour to Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast, all buses and tra8ns on the network.,
Night time is the worst for orb weaver spiders in summer. They build their webs in between trees across paths sometimes and if there head high and you walk into them while their sitting in the middle of their Web it's not a good feeling. It's happened to me.😃🕷🕷🕷
I hope you have a great time in Australia. But there are a few things you should not do, don’t feed the kangaroos because they will become pests and bread is not good for them because they suffer from teeth problems because of eating bread. The other is ticks, if you go into areas of bushland you will pick them up and they will make you life miserable, so stay on the footpath and use insects repellent if you intend to go off the footpath and check yourself when you get home.
Aw thank you Anthony! Definitely good advice, I appreciate it 🙏 we never go near the roos at the uni as we've been told they're wild ones, we've only pet & fed the roos at Australia zoo and only with the feed that we were given. We've been told there's a patriarch kangaroo around the uni too and to stay well away from him too 😂
come on, lets face it, most of our Aussie Spiders are smaller than your hand... only Golden Orb weavers and some Huntsman are bigger than a hand and therefore bigger than your face... pro-tip don't encourage them onto your face
@@katrina_imoya plenty of Huntsmen could straddle your face, with two arms on each ear the other four under your chin... its not pleasant to experience.. i suggest Not sticking out your tongue
UniSC - you’ll need good luck there if you have an IT problem. Don’t expect a satisfactory IT experience. There are far better unis to attend, even in NSW/QLD. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
I still find it interesting watching Americans visit a country that we in the UK used as a dumping ground for our convicts. Obviously you Americans don't have much concept of history so you probably hold Aussies at a high regard. Over here in the UK, we don't really consider them nor their country
I'm actually not American, despite what my accent would suggest 😂 but you're right, I do hold Aussies in high regard, I've found them to be wonderful people, much like the people I've met in the UK 😊
Oh look, a Pom whinging.
How unusual.
/TIC
@@robby1816 Call us what you like. The fact of the matter is, history holds the facts of your heritage. You are the descendants of criminals, and the majority of people in the UK do not respect you people. You have had over 200 years to catch up with the rest of the world, but instead you choose to confirm the stereotype by how you conduct yourselves through out the rest of the world. I have refused to employ people on the basis of them being Australian, irrespective of their qualifications. Just remember your place in this world. You are at the bottom for a reason.
@@katrina_imoya I'm not going to continue watching your videos if you're going to endorse a country like that.
I detect sarcasm.
Welcome to Australia, Kat. I'm in Redcliffe, just south of Sunny. I hope you have a great time here. All the best, mate!
Aw thank you so much Michael! It's an amazing place, I love it ❤ cheers!
If you thiknk 27 degrees is hot you are in for an interesting summer.
@@mynameisweevil hahaha ironic because I grew up in Dubai but ever since moving to Europe I've gotten soft 😂
@@katrina_imoya'Its not the heat ,its the humidity' is what people say here. It can add up to maybe 5 degrees to how the temperature feels. Our weather apps all list the humidity and have 2 temperature readings. 'Max temp' and then 'feels like ' because of the humidity.
@leechgully usually not too much of a problem in SA because of how dry it is down here but the heat is still bad because it just feels harsh
@@leechgully Yes it is 100% the humidity.
@kat_ilming From the few times I've stayed in Dubai, it has that dry ' brick wall heat' more like Victoria, SA and WA. The humidity in the wet season of our tropical regions ( NT and Qld) is that dragging, limp rag type. Besides, jet lag makes everything seem heightened, the climate included! You'll readjust soon enough😊
Glad you're having fun! That's so cool that you can study in both Australia and Austria! :D
@@gravyz2cute4u aw thank you sm, it's such a great experience, I'm super lucky
Welcome to our beautiful country hope you have amazing time here.
Aw thank you very much! I truly love it here 😍
Welcome young lady! I hope you enjoy your stay here and your time here is positive! 😁
Thank you so much! I absolutely love it 😍 hope you're having a great week!
Just enjoyed watching your latest adventures from Down Under, well done!
Thank you! More coming soon 😁
I enjoyed your video. Hope you have a great time in AUS.
@@davidcooper5010 aw thank you sm! It's such a wonderful place ❤️❤️
Hope you enjoy your time here there’s a lot to see have fun
Thanks so much! Definitely loads to explore here 🤩
[Laughing] Welcome to Australia, Kat. I'm in Logan, which is about about 80km south of where you are. You seem to be charmed by what you've found here, and I hope when your course is finished you still feel that way about us.
Thank you so much! I've actually finished my course and am back in Europe now, these uploads are just a bit late 🙈 But I can tell you that it was some of the best months of my life honestly, the people are next level kind and fun, and I miss it loads. I definitely hope. to make it back someday soon 🥹
Yes, Australia is a modern first world country, so the water from the tap is drinkable everywhere!!
We probably have higher standards for drinking water than the US!!
Ah brilliant! I love it when places have good tap water. I've heard that NYC is great for that, but my number #1 is still Scottish tap water
Welcome to Australia and just to let you know you rarely would run into a snake. They are more afraid of you than you are of it. Enjoy your holiday 🐨🦘🇦🇺
Aw thank you! Definitely good to know, for me the biggest fear is the massive cockroaches 🙈 Have a great rest of your week 😁
8:09 you gotta love those Giant Orb-weaver spiders, they're always so damn big and walking into their web is the scariest thing.
Haha for real, they're also just really spiky looking which adds to the fear factor 😂
And look so lovely when the sun is on them just right
@@katrina_imoyaI had one for a week on side of my clothes line left it there. It disappeared one day and I realised it was most likely a bird ate it 😂😂😂
Welcome and enjoy Oz. 😎🇦🇺
Aw thank you very much, it's a great place!
Welcome, have a good one. 🇦🇺😎
Many thanks, you too! ☀
Your English is brilliant for Australia. Bit of slang and you could pass as an Aussie. Most spiders are harmless it is the ones that do not have big webs to not play with. Redbacks like to live under seats outside you can always find them if you look. Funnel webs are the only other ones, and they just have a tiny web with a funnel in the middle. Both you really have to go hunting for, so you won't see them or be bitten by them. Only real dangerous one is the Sydney funnel web and that is not in QLD. The cooked chicken you bought is called a bachelors handbag.
Haha that's awesome to hear, thank you! That's super interesting about all the different spiders, I've definitely learned a lot about them.
"Bachelor's handbag" is a fun name too, I was told people also call it a "tradie's handbag" 😂
Tip - if you think you may be the first person to walk or run along a footpath get hold of a twig or your selfie stick and hold it out in front and up a little higher than your head. This will capture any spiders webs made overnight or in the early hours.
omg, this is genius 🧠 absolute sanity saver, thank you! 🙏
Hi Kat, Welcome to Australia 🥰
Aw thank you very much Joanne 🙏❤
Makes me want to visit there and get a first-hand experience of it ❤
Highly recommend! Some of the best months of my life 🥹
Really Interesting Video, Thank you
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🥰
If you like beer, the places to go on The Sunny Coast are Black Flag Brewing, just off the esplanade at Abalooloom (Mooloolaba spelt backwards) on Brisbane Road or their brewery at Coolum Beach. My favourite is 10Toes Brewing either at their brewery on Sugar Rd Maroochydoore, or at Buderim.
In brisbane, the best beer, by a long margin, is at Felons.
The official currency of Australia is the Dollaridoo.
And, Drop Bears are Real.
And, as a former tour guide to K'gari (Fraser Island), Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) & Mingerribah (Nth Stradbroke Island), it is within my authority to Welcome you to Australia. I'm up & back to Sunshine Coast, if you see me at one of the aforementioned drinking establishments, come and say G'day.
Ooh good to know, thank you! The esplanade is great, I love the crepes from Flo's and the donuts from Kenilworth, really squidgy 😃
Your mission while here, is to sample each Beefies pie in the range. Everything else is secondary. By the way, welcome.
Omg thank you, best mission ever ❤
Welcome to Australia
Aw thank you very much! I love it here
Aussie here living in Melbourne, I hope you have a great time in Australia.
Aw thank you Aaron, it's awesome here 😍
Obviously those spiders are not interested in anything at ground level. So you are safe as long as you can’t fly that high or as long as you are not crazy enough to climb up to get a selfie with the group.
This is why Aussies don’t fear most spiders. They are not interested in us unless we invade their space or they get inside rooms and we scare them so they run. You may need to buy an insect/spider catcher gadget so you can easily and safely move a spider trapped inside, to the outdoors. Don’t sweat it.
@coraliemoller3896 that's so good to know! I have a very tall friend who nearly walked face first into a web at the bus stop, luckily I'm short so it's not an issue for me 😄
@@katrina_imoya Yeah. Im tallish so that happens to me all the time. It used to freak me out a bit when I was younger but Ive lived in Oz all my life and knowing that all the spiders that spin webs are harmless ,I have just about stopped reacting at all when it happens now. It doesnt even really bother me if a spider in the web I walk into runs across my face because I know its not going to bite me or harm me. 😊
@@leechgully omg to be that brave 🙈 even knowing it's harmless, I'd panic if it ran across my face- kudos to you 💪
I enjoy first impression videos. I find myself discovering things about my own culture and environment that are so obvious yet I never stopped to think about them before 🤔
That's so true actually, stuff that you find completely normal and then you're surprised that others are surprised 😂 one of my friends was mindblown when I asked what "chooks" are haha
@@katrina_imoya 🐔😁
Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast isn't "long distance travel" in Australia. It's classified as "just up the road."
If you were catching a train down to Sydney, you would have to book as you described.
Ah okay! Makes a lot more sense. I just checked how long a train from Brisbane to Sydney is and google says FOURTEEN HOURS 😭
The term "a country mile" covers a LOT of distance.
Enjoy Australia
@louisaklimentos7583 thank you! 😊😊
Tap water is safe to drink here :)
@MrSwordstroker I'm so glad I found that out at the start, otherwise I would've wasted so much money on bottled 🍀
@@katrina_imoya drinkable most places onthe coast where its connnected to reticulated treated water. I would say its drinkable 'everywhere'. Out west on the other side of the Great Dividing Range in a lot of places its undrinkable bore water. In parts of Tasmania and North Qld too, its not drinkable due to aging pipes or contamination.
@@leechgully that's super interesting! I'm really glad it's drinkable on the coast, having to rely on bottled or filters is a bit of a faff
Fun fact! In Australia tap water tastes better than bottle water! And yes, we do appreciate how lucky we are!!!!
That's excellent! Out of curiosity, what area are you in? I've found the tap water here to be a touch chloriney so I picked up a filter from Kmart and it helped loads.
@kat_ilming I'm on the Gold Coast
@@howardcroft3748 Oh nice! I managed to go there for the day with a few friends, it's a great place too 😍
No aircon in your room 😮?
Only in the living room 🥲
Love how all the 'Roos are just starring at you like, "who the hell are you?" None of the spiders will hurt you, but walking into a web wrapped around your face isn't fun. Be very careful about snakes though. If you see one just back away. Brown snakes will make you VERY sick if they bite you, and CAN kill you. You probably won't see one but keep your wits about you. They generally like to hide in confined spaces.
Honestly, the roos are the absolute best! There's a papa roo that we see on campus sometimes and we definitely steer clear of him 😆 That's so good to know about the snakes though!
@ Funny, after posting this, about an hour ago I went to get something out of dishwasher and looked to my left and there was a massive Huntsman spider on my kitchen cupboard! Bizarre! I’ve never had one in this house before and hours after I posted about spiders I had one in my kitchen!
a 1hr train trip isnt considered long distance travel here. ur catching a metro train not a country train. A country train you would book a seat for.
Aussie money is real money.
Those spiders are orb weavers. I like to leave them unless they are in my walkway, they are great at keeping the mozzie population down and it u get the golden orb weaver, his web is gold and glistens in the light, absoluetly beautiful. Spiders are smart, if u break their wb daily, after about a week they will move it.
Ohh okay that's good to know about the trains, yeah it's so easy for me to forget how massive Australia is, people say somewhere is "only 3 hours away" which is wild to me 😄 It's 100% real money (and really nice looking too), I just use that term for any currency outside the one I'm used to. Wow, the gold web actually sounds gorgeous, I have no beef with the spiders even though they look scary, for me it's roaches and mosquitos 😬
The snakes will avoid you as you’re to big to eat and the spiders will pretend they’re dead if you tangle up in their web. I’ve lived in the bush for seventy one years
Welcome and enjoy yourself 😁
@BoggyPasso ah thank you, that's definitely comforting to hear! 71 years living in the bush is amazing, it must be gorgeous there 😍
27 degrees Oh my sweet summer child
Train fares are currently 50c per ride in Queensland regardless of the distance travelled. Good time to travel the 1300km to Cairns! It was a bribe by our former state government. They lost the election anyway.
50c is wild! Definitely a good time to have a little explore 😁
50c fares are only for the Translink network and are not for travel travel train to place like Cairns.
Translink services are all the ones that use the GoCard, so any public transport from Nambour to Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast, all buses and tra8ns on the network.,
@@petermiddo
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Sorry for spreading misinformation. Even so, not a bad deal if you're in SE Queensland.
Welcome to the Sunny Coast Kat! Drinks on me…
aw thank you Anthony! I'm already back home in Europe sadly but I do appreciate the offer 😊🙏
27 degrees is hot that’s the night temperature where I live 😂
Maaan I pray you have AC, if not you're super hardcore 💪
Australian money is real money. Everyone else's isn't.😁
Haha I can get behind that, Australian money is so pretty too
27C is not hot sweetheart - try coming inland during summer! 45 - 50 degrees C is hot!
I would probably evaporate on the spot, you guys are made of stronger stuff than I am 😂
"Unit defected"?
To North Korea? But it's still there!
Shame you have arrived in Summer when it rains a lot.
The amount of rain was definitely a surprise for me, and to think I didn't pack my rain gear because I just assumed Australia was dry 🤦♀
@kat_ilming dry heat and no rain on the west coast in summer , humid and wet on the east coast often during summer .
We would pronounce it Landsbra
Learned something new today 🙏 I also pronounced Mooloolaba completely wrong and was corrected very quickly 😂
Get on the local buy/sell and buy a cheap bicycle
@nickislade5533 that's such a good shout, thank you! It turns out you can borrow bikes for free at the uni which is such a time saver 🙌
I did buy a longboard in an effort to be cool though
Yeah, nah. Those are tiny spiders 😂
Probably a good thing because I only have tiny courage 😂
27 degrees! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wait 'til February gurl! You are going to think you moved to Hades.
😆 I'll just be a puddle
Real money?
hahaha I got the phrase from one of my friends, i.e. the money that you're used to, which is Euros for me
Night time is the worst for orb weaver spiders in summer. They build their webs in between trees across paths sometimes and if there head high and you walk into them while their sitting in the middle of their Web it's not a good feeling. It's happened to me.😃🕷🕷🕷
Omg no, I would probably pass right out 🙈 my tall friend has had a few close calls but I've been lucky haha, I'm sorry that happened to you 😂😭
$100" Wow must be all that water you couldn't have got from the tap.
There will be snakes so be a bit cautious about anything on the footpath.
Ah yeah, I've seen one once or twice, I'll definitely be cautious about it 👀
Buying water. Dont waste your money mate.
I've learned better now thankfully 🙏
Lol, the first animals you sees are spiders and bin chickens (not including the mozzies)! Typical!
I hope you have a great time in Australia. But there are a few things you should not do, don’t feed the kangaroos because they will become pests and bread is not good for them because they suffer from teeth problems because of eating bread.
The other is ticks, if you go into areas of bushland you will pick them up and they will make you life miserable, so stay on the footpath and use insects repellent if you intend to go off the footpath and check yourself when you get home.
Aw thank you Anthony! Definitely good advice, I appreciate it 🙏 we never go near the roos at the uni as we've been told they're wild ones, we've only pet & fed the roos at Australia zoo and only with the feed that we were given. We've been told there's a patriarch kangaroo around the uni too and to stay well away from him too 😂
come on, lets face it, most of our Aussie Spiders are smaller than your hand... only Golden Orb weavers and some Huntsman are bigger than a hand and therefore bigger than your face... pro-tip don't encourage them onto your face
This is solid advice 🧠 I don't know what I'd do if I came across a spider bigger than my hand tbh
@@katrina_imoya plenty of Huntsmen could straddle your face, with two arms on each ear the other four under your chin... its not pleasant to experience.. i suggest Not sticking out your tongue
What is that in real money?? WTF??
Please Slip, Slop, Slap.
No hat, no play
UniSC - you’ll need good luck there if you have an IT problem. Don’t expect a satisfactory IT experience. There are far better unis to attend, even in NSW/QLD. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
Gut zu wissen, danke! 🧠
These videos are on the list of super boring if I want to fall asleep in 2 seconds
@thorstenduessler6101 haha I have a podcast that I reserve for the exact same thing
No aircon in your room 😮?