Omg no this is wonderful! Thank you for the book recs! When I look up Picnic at Hanging Rock all I can find is the movie so I guess I will watch that when I can get my hands on it!

true blue, fair dinkum, dinky di, cobber and ridgy didge.

This is so fucking cute but I have the feeling if I said it out loud I would summon some kind of Australian demon.

Schoolies sounds like our Spring Break, which I've never been to either, but yeah I was thinking of the gap year. People do that here too ("backpacking in Europe" is the cliche) but from what I've heard it's more common in Australia. And I think when people do it here they get reactions like "Ugh, she's not going to college?" You're pretty much expected to go to college right after high school, get a job, get a house and then you can go on your vacation. :\ I also would not have been able to afford it right after high school (can't now, either), but it would've been nice and probably given me some good life experience.

We probably wear thongs more in summer?

Sandals, right? Flip-flops? Not butt-showing bathing suits. Right? Right?

anyway ty this is great <3