Wow....2 more days until my visa offically expires!
Ive been working pretty hard the last few weeks too....Went back to helping the guy with his fence, and a bit of digging around the house again, which was cool. Kept me occupied!
Then I went onto a Sultana Harvest for a few days, where I was on the trailer behind the harvester, pulling all the big branches out of the bins etc. It was a little bit monotomous, but it'll be pretty good money when the farmer finally gets a bit of time off to come and pay me! I also had my 1st near death experience! :) Well, it wasnt that bad, but one of the tractors had a really vicious clutch, and most of the time i remembered to have a hold onto the back of the trailor so i didnt fall over.
This time id gotten too involved in pulling out twigs etc, so when the tractor started, I fell off, scraped my entire side down the bin, nearly had my ankle go under the wheels, but held myself up. The farmer didnt bloody stop for me! Then as I dragged myself up, cursing and swearing, a bloody vine came along and nearly launched my glasses into the vines! Suffice to say, the air turned a bit blue!
Then after that ive done a few days sultana picking, which was alright. An extra bit of pocket money. Now ive applied for my visa, which is pretty cool. We'll have to see how it goes. I cant get hold of a few of the farmers ive done work for, so I couldnt put down all my days, but never mind! Whats there should do the trick! Theres enough anyhows...
Other than that a new couple of people have come into the hostel, who seem pretty cool! One of them is almost as music mad as i am, which is pretty good! Although she has gone around all of the locals trying to set me up writing music, and playing. Well, im supposed to do a christening on sunday. 2 hours, happy / oldish music. I dont really have time, well. not until I know whats happening about my visa...
It should be fine, but id rather have it in writing! Then I can concentrate on my music again. Also, If a farm job comes up, I cant really skip in and out of it for all these gigs. But we'll see. If one doesnt I suppose ive got a few extra dollars and a bit of beer on the sunday!
So yes. Thats the Red Cliffs update!
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Wow....nearly a year!
Wow...Two weeks tommorrow, and ill have successfully have blagged my way through a whole year outside of england!
Im still in Red Cliffs, just about scraping by on farmwork, although the last few weeks have been fairly good workwise.. I spent all of last week working for a plumber, putting up a roof (yes. you heard me. A roof. Thats probably why they all leak over here, they think they OUGHT to have water pouring through them!), and possibly the easiest job ive EVER done, which is grading and packing mangos. Which was the work equivilent of basically staying in bed for 2-3 days and getting paid for it!
Its a good job i got the work last week actually. I got paid after a few days, and thought that id pay off the 2 weeks rent that I owed to the hostel. Only to find out that Id somehow not paid since the start of Feburary, and they didnt mention it, because they knew id pay eventually! I was like 'well, of course ill pay, but if you dont tell me that I owe you money, then i cant bloody pay can i?'
So yes. Earnt a shed load. Paid it all to the hostel. Bugger. The mango picking helped too...that was good pay, but Rusen, the german girl im currently travelling around with is too bloody efficient, has all her days on her visa, and therefore organised the place, and shot through the work in 1.5 days instead of 3, because she was annoyed they were doing things so slowly! Bloody Germans! i was like 'Dont go fast! Theyre disorganised! I can get at least an extra day out of this place! If not 2! At $180 per day!'
'Ah, well, its too slow!' THATS THE POINT!! DRAG IT OUT!! (*sighs*). I Hate german efficicency.
So yes, am looking for a job again. Ive got 4 days in which to do it, although im done with farmwork! 2 weeks! Cant bloody wait..
On top of that, Neil went the other day. I think hes been getting quite homesick, so after a bottle of whisky, he decided to quit his job, and apply for his visa a month early, by backdating it on the form. Which is never a good idea. So we'll see if he gets that or not. They're checking the visas pretty thoroughly though, so it looks like he might be back in Ireland before long...
Erm, Canadian Jordan left the hostel too, Rusen and Emily are leaving next wednesday and thursday to do some more travelling, which leaves about 5 people left. All of them working. So daytime is pretty shite at the moment.
I just need another few days work, and ill have the funds to move on. Maurie, the plumber said he might have some landscaping work for me to do next weekend, and the farmer whom I picked the mangos with said hed probably need me for a day or two next week to do another 3 trees worth, which wernt ripe enough yesterday..then my main plan is to "make like a tree, and get the flock out of here (its leave you dumbass! <--Back to the Future)"
So yes. Good times! We'll see what happens. If i dont get work in the next 4 days, then i may even be coming home to sunny england, although i hope not! (no offence guys! :P)
Im still in Red Cliffs, just about scraping by on farmwork, although the last few weeks have been fairly good workwise.. I spent all of last week working for a plumber, putting up a roof (yes. you heard me. A roof. Thats probably why they all leak over here, they think they OUGHT to have water pouring through them!), and possibly the easiest job ive EVER done, which is grading and packing mangos. Which was the work equivilent of basically staying in bed for 2-3 days and getting paid for it!
Its a good job i got the work last week actually. I got paid after a few days, and thought that id pay off the 2 weeks rent that I owed to the hostel. Only to find out that Id somehow not paid since the start of Feburary, and they didnt mention it, because they knew id pay eventually! I was like 'well, of course ill pay, but if you dont tell me that I owe you money, then i cant bloody pay can i?'
So yes. Earnt a shed load. Paid it all to the hostel. Bugger. The mango picking helped too...that was good pay, but Rusen, the german girl im currently travelling around with is too bloody efficient, has all her days on her visa, and therefore organised the place, and shot through the work in 1.5 days instead of 3, because she was annoyed they were doing things so slowly! Bloody Germans! i was like 'Dont go fast! Theyre disorganised! I can get at least an extra day out of this place! If not 2! At $180 per day!'
'Ah, well, its too slow!' THATS THE POINT!! DRAG IT OUT!! (*sighs*). I Hate german efficicency.
So yes, am looking for a job again. Ive got 4 days in which to do it, although im done with farmwork! 2 weeks! Cant bloody wait..
On top of that, Neil went the other day. I think hes been getting quite homesick, so after a bottle of whisky, he decided to quit his job, and apply for his visa a month early, by backdating it on the form. Which is never a good idea. So we'll see if he gets that or not. They're checking the visas pretty thoroughly though, so it looks like he might be back in Ireland before long...
Erm, Canadian Jordan left the hostel too, Rusen and Emily are leaving next wednesday and thursday to do some more travelling, which leaves about 5 people left. All of them working. So daytime is pretty shite at the moment.
I just need another few days work, and ill have the funds to move on. Maurie, the plumber said he might have some landscaping work for me to do next weekend, and the farmer whom I picked the mangos with said hed probably need me for a day or two next week to do another 3 trees worth, which wernt ripe enough yesterday..then my main plan is to "make like a tree, and get the flock out of here (its leave you dumbass! <--Back to the Future)"
So yes. Good times! We'll see what happens. If i dont get work in the next 4 days, then i may even be coming home to sunny england, although i hope not! (no offence guys! :P)
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Phil Pethybridge...
Is a pissed, soppy bastard.
that is all i am going to say.. :P
Happy Stag do motherf***er!
that is all i am going to say.. :P
Happy Stag do motherf***er!
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Soundwave Festival! For those about to RAAAWWWKK!
Which brings me up to last weekend! Which was really really awesome...
I was bloody lucky. Neil had a spare ticket to Soundwave festival in Adelaide, that he wanted to get rid of, so he gave it to me. So i just had to sort out a $37 bus ride, and that was that. So i thought sod it. Ill go. Ive wanted to go to an Australian festival, and its not often you get an $150 ticket for nothing..
It was so much fun. We got there, and some of Neils Aussie mates from Melbourne, who actually lived in Adelaide, invited us to a BBQ, so we went over there, after a few beers in town, and ended up having a great time. The food was excellent, there was more free booze than you could shake a stick at, and they were all such a good group of people. They also let us crash out in the lounge on the sofas, so we didnt even need to pay for a hostel!
So yes, went to bed at 4am, woke up at 9am. Went to this pub, which was owned by one of the girls at the bbq, who were also going to the festival's parents, and had a $5 bacon and eggs. Then went to the festival, which was a rock festival with possibly the worlds best lineup!
I saw Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stoneage, Slash, Primus (Who were outstanding!), Slayer, Monster Magnet, Devil Driver, some of Stone Sour, and Feeder. Pretty damn good!
Less than jake, Mad Caddies, and Third Eye Blind were playing too, but i missed them. Went through the day basically topping myself up on beer (I have no money still. Farmworking sucks for money, although apparantly if i do it again, i want to sign up for vintage at the start of the season, and get 800-1000k a week!), then went back to this rock club, which was pretty cool, although crammed..
A Load of the bands were down there chilling out too, which was good, but i didnt take advantage of it, because Id just ordered a whole Maccy D's family box to myself (I hadnt eaten all day, and was more hungry than id ever been in my life!), managing one and 2/3 of the 2 big macs, a cheeseburger, 6 nuggets, 2 chips, and a two cokes before dying of a heart attack. This made me feel a bit sick for some reason...AND also, seeing as id been up the front for the bands all day, I was so tired. I went back, hit the pillow and thats it. Bam. Gone! Asleep!
So worth it though. I nearly didnt go, because I didnt have the money, but hell. Free Ticket, Free house. It was the cheapest festival id ever been to, and such a good weekend. Adelaide is SUCH a good city!
So yes. the grape harvest here is fecked, so ive lost my job again now, because there arent any grapes for me to stack, so im going to get a few dollars together and get the hell out of dodge i think. Maybe head over to Adelaide to find some farmwork, as the apocalypse hasnt hit there yet! :P
I was bloody lucky. Neil had a spare ticket to Soundwave festival in Adelaide, that he wanted to get rid of, so he gave it to me. So i just had to sort out a $37 bus ride, and that was that. So i thought sod it. Ill go. Ive wanted to go to an Australian festival, and its not often you get an $150 ticket for nothing..
It was so much fun. We got there, and some of Neils Aussie mates from Melbourne, who actually lived in Adelaide, invited us to a BBQ, so we went over there, after a few beers in town, and ended up having a great time. The food was excellent, there was more free booze than you could shake a stick at, and they were all such a good group of people. They also let us crash out in the lounge on the sofas, so we didnt even need to pay for a hostel!
So yes, went to bed at 4am, woke up at 9am. Went to this pub, which was owned by one of the girls at the bbq, who were also going to the festival's parents, and had a $5 bacon and eggs. Then went to the festival, which was a rock festival with possibly the worlds best lineup!
I saw Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stoneage, Slash, Primus (Who were outstanding!), Slayer, Monster Magnet, Devil Driver, some of Stone Sour, and Feeder. Pretty damn good!
Less than jake, Mad Caddies, and Third Eye Blind were playing too, but i missed them. Went through the day basically topping myself up on beer (I have no money still. Farmworking sucks for money, although apparantly if i do it again, i want to sign up for vintage at the start of the season, and get 800-1000k a week!), then went back to this rock club, which was pretty cool, although crammed..
A Load of the bands were down there chilling out too, which was good, but i didnt take advantage of it, because Id just ordered a whole Maccy D's family box to myself (I hadnt eaten all day, and was more hungry than id ever been in my life!), managing one and 2/3 of the 2 big macs, a cheeseburger, 6 nuggets, 2 chips, and a two cokes before dying of a heart attack. This made me feel a bit sick for some reason...AND also, seeing as id been up the front for the bands all day, I was so tired. I went back, hit the pillow and thats it. Bam. Gone! Asleep!
So worth it though. I nearly didnt go, because I didnt have the money, but hell. Free Ticket, Free house. It was the cheapest festival id ever been to, and such a good weekend. Adelaide is SUCH a good city!
So yes. the grape harvest here is fecked, so ive lost my job again now, because there arent any grapes for me to stack, so im going to get a few dollars together and get the hell out of dodge i think. Maybe head over to Adelaide to find some farmwork, as the apocalypse hasnt hit there yet! :P
Dream
Not alots happened. Here there are two things to do. Work and drink. So its all pretty so so on that front. Eveeryones leaving. As of the 3/2/11, Kiwi Matt, (whos actually a proper nice bloke, although still absolutely nuts!) has gone, leaving the place alot quieter, and wholesome. The Two Canadian Jordans have gone, leaving us with one left.
So im going to put up some of my dreams, because they are pretty random here. I think its because the beds are so damn uncomfortable, I cant get into a deep sleep.
They have included:
* Paul Mccartney lived in the hostel toilets, and watched everyone pee. Which was quite disconcerting. I always thought there was something funny about that bloke! :P
* I dreamt that a grandma, or maybe an aunt of great aunt. Noone real anyways, had given me about £2million, but the only way I could claim it was to start a resteraunt just like them. So I did, and it was a huge place, with three massive waterslides. Two that went down the side of the building, with people going stupid speeds down them, and one which started at the top of a big tree, had a right angle turn that people only just made it around, then went away and skimmed them into the sea, past some old hut type building.
* I was living in a house at university, near to a library, with a dodgy wall. There was this really nice woman who was my roommate, but also a really miserable girl down the block, whod been living there the longest, and was sort of in charge. I told her that she wanted to get someone to fix it, but she didnt listen. So i go and get a travel book because im leaving in a month, slam the door, and the entire front wall of this massive building falls down like dominos. At which the miserable woman throws the book at me, and says i have one week to get out, with me protesting that Id TOLD her to get the landlord to sort it! :P
Thats all, from now until last weekend. Had a few barbeques. some of the other residents had a few dramas, had a few beers, and tried to save a bit of money...
So im going to put up some of my dreams, because they are pretty random here. I think its because the beds are so damn uncomfortable, I cant get into a deep sleep.
They have included:
* Paul Mccartney lived in the hostel toilets, and watched everyone pee. Which was quite disconcerting. I always thought there was something funny about that bloke! :P
* I dreamt that a grandma, or maybe an aunt of great aunt. Noone real anyways, had given me about £2million, but the only way I could claim it was to start a resteraunt just like them. So I did, and it was a huge place, with three massive waterslides. Two that went down the side of the building, with people going stupid speeds down them, and one which started at the top of a big tree, had a right angle turn that people only just made it around, then went away and skimmed them into the sea, past some old hut type building.
* I was living in a house at university, near to a library, with a dodgy wall. There was this really nice woman who was my roommate, but also a really miserable girl down the block, whod been living there the longest, and was sort of in charge. I told her that she wanted to get someone to fix it, but she didnt listen. So i go and get a travel book because im leaving in a month, slam the door, and the entire front wall of this massive building falls down like dominos. At which the miserable woman throws the book at me, and says i have one week to get out, with me protesting that Id TOLD her to get the landlord to sort it! :P
Thats all, from now until last weekend. Had a few barbeques. some of the other residents had a few dramas, had a few beers, and tried to save a bit of money...
Barbie in the Hood!
I had a pretty cool barbeque on saturday...Id helped organised it because I was bored, and it was probably one of the peaks of red cliffs. Basically everyone in the hostel put in $15 and that paid for food and beer for EVERYONE!
Everyone in the hostel, and a load of mates mates from Mildura came down, and it was one massive pi..i mean, knees up from start to finish. My memories are a bit hazy...best to check out some of the photos from facebook!
Things I DONT remember are:
* Anything past 10pm
* Anything before 10pm
* How I got up / made it through work the next morning at 4am
* Getting on Big Lizzie, the traction engine, for a picture.
Things I DO remember are:
* Why I dont drink a crate of beer when i have to work the next day.
Isnt hindsight a wonderful thing?
Everyone in the hostel, and a load of mates mates from Mildura came down, and it was one massive pi..i mean, knees up from start to finish. My memories are a bit hazy...best to check out some of the photos from facebook!
Things I DONT remember are:
* Anything past 10pm
* Anything before 10pm
* How I got up / made it through work the next morning at 4am
* Getting on Big Lizzie, the traction engine, for a picture.
Things I DO remember are:
* Why I dont drink a crate of beer when i have to work the next day.
Isnt hindsight a wonderful thing?
It was the night before Australia day....
....and all through the house, everyone was drinking, even the mouse..
Except me. Because I needed to bloody well be up at Four-Sodding-AM! :)
Not a massive amount has happened in the last few weeks. Ive got another job shifting boxes of grapes from 430am. Its not as bad as it sounds, the hardest bit is getting out of bed, although its easier to get up at this time, than it is to get up at 630ish or whatever. In my opinion anyways!
Apart from that I got kept awake by neil and rory drunkenly jumping on me, banging pans the other night because i needed to get Grez out of bed because hed fallen asleep the other night at 3am to get up at 4. Thanks Guys! :P
I got up in the end, and then tried using a REALLY inappropriate german joke as a chatup line, which really didnt work. and that was that!
Except me. Because I needed to bloody well be up at Four-Sodding-AM! :)
Not a massive amount has happened in the last few weeks. Ive got another job shifting boxes of grapes from 430am. Its not as bad as it sounds, the hardest bit is getting out of bed, although its easier to get up at this time, than it is to get up at 630ish or whatever. In my opinion anyways!
Apart from that I got kept awake by neil and rory drunkenly jumping on me, banging pans the other night because i needed to get Grez out of bed because hed fallen asleep the other night at 3am to get up at 4. Thanks Guys! :P
I got up in the end, and then tried using a REALLY inappropriate german joke as a chatup line, which really didnt work. and that was that!
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