America vs Australia

Hey lovely people!

So I have officially been in America for 18 days!! 18 days!!! Can ya believe it?! So I thought I would tell you some things I've noticed that are different from Australia!! So here goes...

1. Instead of being normal and turning their taps clockwise, they go anticlockwise!! So weird and very hard to get used to :P
2. They have ketchup on everything... like literally everything! And if not ketchup, then maple syrup
3. Coffee shops are almost as frequent as people... I reckon every second shop is another coffee shop! There are coffee shops in the MSU library, in the dining halls, in most other buildings around the uni, downtown, in the mall, at Walmart, everywhere!! And everyone seems to carry a coffee cup everywhere they go
4. They heat their houses really warm when it's cold outside so I have to constantly be putting layers on and off as I go from building to building. I could easily walk around in my hall in shorts and a T-shirt!
5. Everything is sweet... absolutely everything! Bread, cereal... So much sugar!
6. They call uni 'school', which is a bit weird. And it's run more like school too. You gets marks taken off your final grade if you miss more than 2 classes in the semester without a good reason. And we have homework all the time like in school. No big assignments twice a semester... just lots of little ones all the time. They still count towards your final grade though, which is out of 1000 cos of all the little work we do!!!
7. If you say thank you to someone, they just say 'uh huh' I think that is the weirdest thing! No 'your welcome' or 'no worries'! I feel very weird saying that now! 

Also they have some different words which weren't too hard to figure out cos we hear them all the time on TV and in movies but they are still different. Like elementary instead of primary, school instead of uni. And they didn't know what a SIM card was! When I said I needed a new SIM card they just looked at me like... what?!?! They just call it an American number :P

So there you have it! My list of differences so far! I'm sure it will get bigger as I talk to people. I had someone tell me last night that I say the coolest phrases and I really had no idea what they meant! Obviously there's lots of little things I say that make people laugh :)