Not the Wrong Bus, but Not the Right Bus Either

So I have learned some new things about Australia this week mostly dealing with how they talk. Australians like to pluralize things, like the word math. To them it's not math it's "maths" and yes the 's' is on purpose. It's really awkward because I now spend a long time wanting to correct people or I have to stop myself from looking at them funny. My second example is Lawn Bowling, which is not actually called Lawn Bowling, but rather it's called Lawn Bowls. Which makes no sense, in any context. Also, on a note about lawn bowling, it's the most ridiculous sport. You are on this grassy field with a bunch of balls, one of which is small and white. You roll the small white ball to the other end of the field and then try to roll your balls as close to the little white one as possible and closer than your opponent. The thing is the grass is short and the balls move really fast and curve a lot so you have to throw them very lightly, which is harder than it sounds. I am a terrible lawn bowler, but luckily the person I was playing against had never done it either and wasn't Australian so had no particular attachment to the sport (which may or may not have originated in Australia, but I'm assuming) so we changed the rules. Our rules are that you have to hit the little white ball with the bigger balls and it doesn't matter if they stay close to it or not. I won, but only because I was the only one who it, which I only did once out of 10ish rounds. Lawn Bowls is dumb.
Other weird things Australians do to their words is add the letter O to the end of words they have shortened. Like 'arvo' for afternoon, or changing the name Dan to Dano, and there are more that I can't think of. It's very odd. But I do love listening to them talk. One more, that the trunk of a car is called the boot. Which leads me to wonder if Australians understand the expression 'junk in the trunk', just something to think about.
So my lesson from this weekend is to pay more attention to what bus I take and the route said bus takes. My friend and I took the bus to Fremantle (which is cool town on the coast) on Saturday and when we looked at the bus schedule we saw that there were a couple options that involved two buses and one that involved one bus. So we took the one bus route thinking it was the best. It wasn't. We then proceeded to spend two hours on the bus, which is a really long time, especially since we were starving. At one point we filmed ourselves lamenting our inability to think things through. We did eventually arrive at our destination and ate some fish and chips and got to wander around for a bit with our other friend who had managed to take a reasonable bus. I now want to live in Freo (which is short for Fremantle and another example of the adding of the O). It's on the water and a good place to hang out.