Saa er det minsandten lykkedes mig at uploade et album! Hold da op, blev helt forbavset over, det faktisk virker! Men regner nu stadig med at laegge mine billeder ud paa face, da jeg ved, det kun er mine venner, der ser dem, og ikke hele verden, som her.

Jeg er i Brisbane endnu, og endnu engang housesitter jeg weekenden over, da Bruce og Chris er vaek. Men passer mig fint. Kan faa nogle sidste ting ordnet, inden jeg mandag starter min egen road trip. Har haengt nogle papirer op paa fire forskellige hostels om at jeg har to saeder fri, saa hvis folk har lyst til at dele benzin, kan de komme med. Har hoert fra 3 personer indtil videre. Alle tre tyske piger. Skal moedes med to af dem i morgen.

Det er paent varmt hernede, saa har ikk lavet det vilde. Har brugt en del timer paa min bil, med at faa den up to date med at koebe manglende dele, faa airconditionen til at virke, gjort den ren, og mange andre smaating. Saa nu er den snart saa klar som den kan vaere. Og noget mere vaerd i vaerdi!

Den saedvanlige update:

Den 15. startede lidt creepy, da en klam mekaniker ringede mig op, og ville invitere mig ud. Han havde faaet nummeret af bling bling Greg, bilsaelgeren, og saa mente han det var helt okay for en mand i 50'erne at invitere en ung toes som mig ud. Fortalte ham, jeg ikk datede aeldre maend. Foej! Efter at have fortalt den graahaarede, aeldre end min far, eks alkoholiker, tidligere gift med en inder og flytter snart til Malaysia, klamme mekaniker, at han godt ku glemme det, tog jeg en tur paa stranden for at koele lidt ned.

Den 16. arbejdede jeg paa bilen. Gjorde den ren indvendig og fik ordnet nogle elektriske ting (Bruce hjalp mig). Skulle have moedtes med et englesk par, Ian og Lisa om aftenen for at snakke road trip, men de kan desvaerre ikk komme med, da de mangler penge og derfor ikk kan sige deres jobs i Brisbane op.

Den 17. stod den igen paa bildag. Fik ordnet en masse. Fik odnet papirarbejdet, saa bilen blir overfoert til mig, fik koebt nogle manglende dele, ordnet airconditionen, der ellers kun blaeste halvvarm luft, tjekket slanger og motor generelt. Kostede mig en del - for ikk at naevne moedet med politiet, der kostede mig $300! 1400 Dkr for at koere uden sikkerhedssele; for fanden da!

Den 18. laante Bruce min bil i nogle timer, da hans motorcykels forhjul var punkteret. Saa jeg fik klaret lidt husarbejde. Da Bruce kom hjem hjalp ham mig med Lily (bilen). Fik sat det fedeste loftlys i! Der var til at starte med ingen paere i loftet. Vi fandt saa ud af, det var fordi der hele tiden var stroem til, saa den forrige paere var nok spraengt. Saa maatte vi saette en kontakt op. Bruce havde en noedstop fra en tidligere lift/elevator, som saa er blevet kontakt i bilen nu. Han har generelt hjulpet mig rigtig meget, naar det kommer til bilen - alt fra elektriker arbejde til mekaniker med at ordne haandbremsen osv. Stor tak til ham!

I gaar haengte jeg de ovennaevnte sedler op, som forhaabentlig skaffer mig nogle travelbuddies. Og saa fik jeg shoppet lidt!! Endelig fik jeg det ud af mit system! Har ellers ikk shoppet hernede, da jeg har proevet at hanke op i mig, da jeg jo ikk har alverdens ekstra plads i min backpack. Saa har kun kigget butikker foerhen, men endelig kom kortet frem og blev koert igennem en toejforretning :) Dermed ogsaa sagt at jeg smider et par troejer ud, som jeg ikk mener, jeg har brug for laengere. Saa proever at kompensere lidt...Derudover fik jeg stoevsuget Lily og vasket hende udenpaa.

I dag har jeg stort set lagt finishing touch paa Lily (se albummet). Nu mangler jeg kun at skrabe film af ved foerersaede-vinduet og saa finde et reservehjul. Var nede og betale min boede - skod. Fortalte dem at i Danmark koster det kun 500, og jeg sys det var urimeligt, men det fik jeg nu ikke reduceres boeden af, af den grund. Har ogsaa besluttet mig for, at hvis jeg fremover skal til byen, tager jeg fandme toget! For kan bare ikk finde vej! Bruce og Chris har taget GPS'en med sig, og det er et helvede at finde p-pladser i Brisbane. Saa efter jeg brugte ca. 80min. og en kvart tank benzin paa at finde midtbyen, og havde taget 'et par' forkerte veje og set de forskellige provinser, saa blev toget ligesom besluttet at vaere loesningen. Saa derfor ogsaa tog i morgen, naar jeg skal moedes med de to tyskere.

Ellers har jeg lagt mine rejseplaner om, lidt drastisk! Jeg har besluttet mig for at tage til Las Vegas og hjaelpe som frivillig til US Open i februar. Kender et par stykker derovre, og haaber paa at se nogle af de fantastiske mennesker, jeg laerte at kende til VM i DK. Det betyder, at jeg istedet for at have 3mdr i Australien, saa en maaned paa NZ og dernaest 14 dage paa Fiji nu har foelgende: Australien indtil 21.dec. Saa New Zealand i en maaned og Fiji i 14 dage. Tilbage til Australien i en lille uge, inden jeg tager til Vegas. Tilbage til Australien og saa have ca. 3uger i Australien inden jeg smutter til DK. Saa der kommer til at ske lidt! Hav det godt!

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I finally succeeded in uploading pictures onto this blog, which I thought would be impossible. Still, I'm cuonting on only putting pics on my Facebook profile, though, as only my friends can see them there, and not the whole world as here.

I'm still in Brisbane and yet again housesitting for the weekend, as Bruce and Chris are out of town. It suits me fine though. I can get some last things done with before I start my roadtrip Monday. Posted some notes in different hostels about my roadtrip to Cairns. Anyone can come if they wanna split fuel. So far I've heard from three German girls. Meeting up with ttwo of them tomorrow.

It's really hot down here, so haven't been doing much. Spent a lot of time on my car, getting it up to date by buying missing parts, cleaning it, getting the aircon working, etc. It has definately increased in value!

The usual update:

The 15th started off a bit creepy, as I was called up by a mechanic who wanted to ask me out. He had gotten my number from my bling-bling cardealer Greg, and apparently he thought it was perfectly fine for a 50-some year old man to ask out a 21 year old girl like me out. Told him I didn't date older men. EEW! After telling the grey-haired, older than my dad, ex alcholic, now divorced from an Indian and soon moving to Malaysia, creeopy mechanic, that he had no chance at all, I went to the beach to cool off a bit.

The 16th I worked on the car. Cleaned it on the inside and fixed some eletrical things (Bruce helped me). Was supposed to meet up with an English couple, Ian and Lisa at night to disguss roadtrip, but unfortunately they can't come as they have hardly any money and therefore can't leave their jobs in Brisbane.

The 17th was another car-day. Got a lot done. Did the paperwork, so the car is transferred to my name, bought some missing parts, fixed the aircon, which was only blowing semihot air, checked the hoses and the motor in generel. Cost me quite a bit, not to mention the meeting with the police, which cost me flipping $300 for not wearing a seatbelt! God dang it!

The 18th Bruce borrowed my car as his bike had a flat. So I did some domestic work. When Bruce returned he helped me with Lily (the car). Got the coolest switch in the ceiling! To begin with, there was no bulp in the ceiling. We found out the electricity was on all time, so we had to install a switch. Bruce just happened to have an old switch from a lift, so now I have a lift switch in my car - so awesome! Bruce has helped me out big time in generel around the car - everything from electrical stuff to mechanical, like fixing the handbrakes. I owe him a big thanks!

Yesterday I posted the before mentioned notes, which is hopefully gonna get me some travelbuddies. And then I did some shopping! Finally got that out of my system! Have been avoiding buying stuff, only looking at stores, which is hard! But I don't really have a lot of extra space in my backpack. But yesterday I finally got the credit card swiped through a clothing store :) It must be said that I'm also throwing out some clothes, as I don't need it anymore. So, trying to compensate a bit. Besides that I vacuumed Lily and washed her on the outside.

Today I basically did the finishing touch on Lily (check out the album). Now I just gotta scrape some tint of the window in the dricer's side and then find a spare tire. Went to pay my bill today - sucked. Told them how unfair I thought it was, and in Denmark a fine like that is only $100, but I still didn't get a reduction. Have also decided that from now on, if I'm going to town, I'm gonna take the freaking train! I just simply can't find my way around! Bruce and Chris took the GPS with them, and it's hell finding parking places down town. So after having spent about 80minutes and a 1/4 of a tank of fuel, trying to find Brisbane down town, and having taken 'a few' wrong turns and seen most of the suburbs, I decided the train was the way to go. So therefore, when I go to see the two German girls tomorrow, I'll go by train!

Besides that I've made some drastically changes in my travelplans! I've decided to go to Vegas and help as a volunteer at the US Open in Tae Kwon Do in Feb. Know a guy over there, and hopefully I'll meet some of the fantastic people I met at the WC in Denmark. This all means tha instead of having 3 months in Australia, then 1month on New Zealand and 14 days on Fiji, my plans are now as follows: Australia till Dec.21st, then NZ for a month and then Fiji for 14days. Then go back to Australia for a week, then Vegas and then back to Australia for about 3 weeks before leaving for Denmark. So I'm going forth and back quite a bit! Take care now.