Ossi Girls or Aussie Girls

The other day I had lunch at uni with a girl from Dresden, a girl from Naumburg and a girl from Halle; these are all cities in East Germany, the region where I come from. It was really nice to hear those accents again – just like home :-)
It is actually quite funny because people from East Germany are sometimes called Ossis (from the German word for East - Osten). But Ossi is pronounced just like Aussie. So we are Ossis girls and we now become Aussies girls ;-)