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Hey everyone! I havent wrote one to those blogs for ages, adam's been the one thats been keeping up with it! well for a start.. Me Adam and Alex were in Brisbane together working to earn some money for the rest of our trip. I'd been working doing lots of odd jobs including working in a clothing factory with what seemed to be the cast from corrie, cleaning a rugby pitch and stone mason work on an army barrocks. which let me tell you it was dodgy. because i didnt have a blue card, which is a card that means you go on a building site. My boss gave me a thomas christenisen's i.d which had previously worked for him. when we arrived at the barracks i had to pretend i was him and was issued with a photo i.d and always introduced to the formen and other works as thomas. i was just hoping i wouldnt get asked any technical question or i would have been shot lol well not litrally but it felt that way at the time.
It wasn't till i'd been working a short while and I realised I really couldn't afford to do this trip around austrlia with Adam and Alex. I Simply didnt have enough money and working for 2-3weeks in Brisbane wasn't going to earn me the kind of money I needed to do the road trip around australia and still afford to travel around Asia for 5 months after. So i made the decison to stay in Brisbane and work for 6 weeks. I really didn't want to but i knew id be going home within weeks if I just went off on the road trip with them two.
I did go up to Noosa with the boys to do the Everglades canoeing and safari trip because i was really looking forward to it and thought it could be my last treat before i knuckled down and worked! We had an ace time! on our 1st day of the trip we pretty much paddled our way up the river, set up our tents at our camping site then had a lot of wine (goon) which for once was actually really nice! on our 2nd day we paddled even further up the river and did an hour trek though a forest till we got to this huge sand dune! It was amazing scenery we also ate some food with the portable cooking kit we were given. sand went everywhere but i was pretty hungry so i just ate my sandy tuna and spag bol! lol
we headed back down the river to camp for our lastnight, we didn't have much wine left after the night before so we just had a few glasses and headed to bed. The next morning was dreadful, i'd been raining all night and wasn't stopping either. we quickly got all our stuff together and headed back down the river. Throughout the whole trip we couldnt help being competative with the other guys in the group, we dont know why but we just wanted to be the 1st to do everything.. get up the river, get to the sand dunes, pack our tents up, get back 1st. It got kind of funny actually. The paddle back down the everglades wasn't so funny tho, it was the worst kind of rain, no not the fine rain.. the huge bloody drops that drench you right through! we didnt get back 1st, the germans sped past us! 'because they had less weight in their boats' but we didnt care because we won the annoying french guy lol
after we got back that evening to the hostel, seen as it was our last night together, with me leaving the next morning and the boys heading uip to cairns to fly to Perth to do their road trip. we all went to the cinema to watch batman! it was pretty good. joker made the film for me, im not saying that because heath died, it would have been a bit boring otherwise. After the film we all cooked a meal together, to be honest i cant remember what it was. but it was nice. The next morning i got up and got ready because i was leaving for the bus before them, we said our goodbyes ourside the kitchen. We had a 3 way man hug and then i headed off for the bus!
when i got back to brisbane I got a call from Q-pharm to say i'd been accepted for a medical trial i'd apllied for the week before. I'd been for a blood, unrine test and had been checked over by the doctor. infact the doctor asked me to lay on the bed and lift my top, he just started tickling me lol apparently he was checking for something but i couldnt stop giggling. i think he thought i was abit weird for laughing when he was doing his medical check. anyway for those who dont know q-pharm is, its a company which do medical trials for new drugs coming out, they test the drug on people 1st to see its effects. I spoke to the docotor when i went in the 1st time and the trial i was interested in had been already tested on people before and had had no side affects what so ever, so i was comfortbale doing it. I was 5 days in hosptial with 9 other guys. We took one capsual and then had bloody tests every morning they also collected all our urine for 5 days. Me and the guys that went in had a really good time. playing ping pong, wii, table football, watcing films and being waited on hand and foot by nurses.
When i came out of Qpharm i headed back to cloud 9 for work. i was working at the hostel behind reception and during the day selling straberries to people in towns upto 2 hours away. some days we also went to surfers paradise selling which was great because they have fantastic weather and beaches. The guy who i worked for was called bret and he loved to drink and drive. He had 6 DUI's and had another coming up in court. nice guy tho. I Didnt get in the car with him, i was with ryan and Callum at the time. We had fun working on the straberries and quickly realised there was some good money to be earn't. on my 1st day i earn't $250 for about 5 hours work! best job in the world. all day you just walk around in the sun speaking to people and getting good money for it!
I heard there was a road trip coming up and the people that were working at that time were going all down the east coast selling. The day before they left I decided i'd jump on board with Ryan, katie, bill and matt! How could i turn down the offer to travel down the east coast and earn good money! i also heard there was a chance i'd be snowboarding and seeing great ocean road. so i was in!
Rick x x x
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