Geen dag is compleet tegenwoordig zonder huiswerk. Isis is pas op schoolkamp geweest en moet deze week Australische uitdrukkingen leren uit de tijd van de goudzoekers. We leren allemaal gretig mee :-)
- New chum/ A new person to the Goldfields
- Jeweller/ A person who has a lucky strike.
- Eureka/ An expression people used to say when they found gold.
- Dedicate it to the queen/ What you do with a hole in a mine where there is no decent gold
- Duffer/ A thief who would go out at night to steal gold from the mines
- Claim jumping/ Pinching someone else's hole
- Nigh fossickers/ Thiefs who raid other people's claimes (gold) at night
- Blanks/ Unsuccessful holes