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Yo yo yo, well its been an up and down 6 weeks since we last blogged but it feels like we're finally getting settled!
At the beginning of jan we left sydney and headed to a town in Queensland called Bundaberg with the intention of doing some farm work. We stayed at a hostell called Cellblock which was an old police station with the rooms being the old holding cells... unfortunately the guy who ran the hostel thought he was still the warden and was the biggest arse i've ever met. Basically he was the work agent aswell as the hostel owner so he picked and chose who was working etc etc.... Sounds ok but he was a drunken arrogant fool who only provided work if u kissed his ass and became one of his laccys which most definately was not goin to happen! So.... after grinning and bearing the guy and the boring town that we were staying in for a week we headed to Brisbane to look for work there! We were greeted in Brisbane with 2 weeks of costant heavy rain which kept us hostel bound whilst we applied for every job under the sun! Fortunately we both found a bit of work whilst we were there to keep us sane.... Sarah dropped on a bit of cleaning work and i got odd days labouring here and there. One of the guys i worked for had a house overlooking a bit of bushland and would hand feed the local wildlife (parrots, kookaburra etc) from his veranda which was a memorable thing to see!
Whilst in Brisbane i got a call from a builder in Sydney who'd seen an ad i'd posted on the internet looking for bricklaying work so on 31st jan we headed back to Sydney in the hope of getting full time work! I've been working for the guy for 2 weeks now and although its hard graft doing 9-10 hour days its finally some income and has hopefully led to more work for the coming weeks! Sarah's working casually in a local coffee shop whilst applying for office jobs so hopefully she'll get something permanent next week!
Last weekend we moved into an apartment in Waterloo which we are loving! We're sharing with an irish couple named Mossy and Sharon who are up for a laugh and are out here on a sponsorship and lookin for residency. We finally get our own room + bathroom, sky (Premier league football oh yes) + wifi and the added bonus of a gym and swimming pool which we've been making use of!
The plan now is to knuckle down with work for a few months and save loadsa wonga for more travels and we've made a massive list of things we wanna see and do around Sydney to keep us occupied at the weekends so life is good!
Spoken to family and friends today which is always nice and heard that its pretty fresh back home.... u will be pleased to know however that this is the worst summer in sydney for decades and we're getting rain showers pretty much every day on and off so although its warm it aint too much better here!!
Got your txt the other day michelle, glad to hear our boys ok... hope he's found himself a nice cosy sleeping place to keep warm at nite and is having fun meeting the othe local cats!
Think thats it for the time being so hope everyones fit and healthy at home and we'll see u soon : )))))
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