FARM WORKING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE pt1

Hello! Its been ages since ive done this, apologies to all...im just out in the middle of sodding nowhere, where they havent invented internet yet, and they eat letters. A bit like the Aussie version of the deep south! :P

Anyways, Ive stolen my friends laptop, and am going to bash out everything ive been writing down for the past 2 months, so bare with me!

5/1/2011 - Torn away from melbourne, one hot, sunny, overall pleasant morning on a whim, and a stupid governments insistence that I have to work in an industy thats ravaged by the weather, and entirely unproductive!


The last few entries have been written out by hand, because there is nowhere in this town that has the internet. You dont actually need to know this, but the laptop is being gay, and wont switch off the BOLD type. So im writing this down so as to confuse it. I hate technology.

Ive moved to Red Cliffs, a town of 6000 people 16ks away from Mildura, on the Victoria / NSW border to start some farmwork...

Actually, the journey down was quite random...I book a ticket to go to mildura to get some work out of the way. Well, i nearly do, then my Friend Neil Dalton, who i knew from Habitat HQ in Melbourne rings me up. He'd spent $150 on a ticket to Queensland to do some farmwork (With the apocalypse up there, good bloody job he didnt!), then spent his last day in melbourne utterly wrecked, missed his flight because hed passed out (Elaine, another friend was slapping him pouring cold water on him, banging pans near his head, screaming. Nothing...lol, sound familiar dave? :P I think youve finally found your sleeping twin!). So I get a call, because he knows im heading off to do the farmwork too, and he ends up coming along with me. Whereas 1 hour later, id probably already be on the train...

So anyways, we book this place in Red Cliffs that was recommended by another mate, and head off. Then at the station, we run into our friend Rusen, who is also from Habitat, and had been travelling around Australia, and just randomly happened to be on the Same train, at the same place, in the same carriage (2 seats across from us!) to Mildura...

How f***ing random!

She was supposed to be going somewhere else in Mildura, but the guy didnt show up to give her a lift, and to be honest sounded a bit weird, so she came with us. Which was awesome!

So yes, now we're booked in. The town is REALLY quiet (anyone whos familar with Potton, its like that, but instead of some fairly interesting walks etc around, theres just grapes grapes and more grapes. And instead of a variety of pubs, theres one, which im staying in, and looks like something out of the Shinining. I keep expecting to see a kid on a bicycle running around any moment!

I was lucky with work, and got a job straight away pruning grape vines, with a 630am start. Eek!!