Monday, January 9, 2012

New job!

Hey everyone :) It hasnt even been one day that Rochelle has been gone. Thats insane. We had alot of fun here, well i thought we did with her. I hope she does too. We definitely had our share of angry spats.. or whatever you want to call them, but overall it was lots of fun! :) Sucks thats she is gone already though. So yesterday at like 11 30 or something we left for perth. we got to perth at about 4? a pretty quite drive, well other than the music blaring to cover the sound of our piece of shit muffler on our car. I think we almost went deaf. But its all good now though :) Eric fixed it for us, again. It was such a nice quite drive to the airport and then to albany again. Rochelle saw Amanda, it wasnt on purpose though. we were jsut taking a walk last night, me and her, and she was outside, and we saw her so we said hi, but then they went to our car where eric and mary were fixing it. but we were on our walk so we didnt really talk to them. Then later we went to bed at about 10.. me and rochelle both slept on their couches, betty had a bed. woke up at 10 to 4. drove rochellus to the airport, said bye in the airport, I think from the time it took us to get in then out of the airport and on our way to albany was like 10 minutes?? very short. But that is probably a good thing, cus otherwise it can just drag on and on.. but ya whatever. So we set off for albany right away.. with Betty driving first, cus i had driven to the airport, and she drove from the airport. But then like 2 hours later we stopped at Williams, which is about half way between albany and perth. And we slept for about a hour in the car... Then i drove. Got to albany at about 11 i think. went to hens first then left for timmers again, did a load of landry, printed off resumes. then left again to job search and get groceries. the third place we went to we got a job on the spot. the first was a video store.. i wasnt too interested in that at all, then dropped one off at a restaurant thing. then we went to a strawberry farm, and thats where we are working now. Starting tomorrow at 6.. i think we work till like 12 30 or something. Pulling weeds cus they have to catch up with stuff like that. we were talking to the owners, and the one right below was there too, and the owners asked if they needed workers..cus we said what we had done already. She was like yes put them on.. we stayed there for a bit, talked. i think its 6 days a week most of the time, and like 9 hour days..i am very glad that we are outside again though. That Fletchers place didnt need any workers at the moment, they only needed ppl in the slaughter part, which the owner did not want us to work in. The strawberry farm should be good though, kinda nervous.

4 comments:

Rochelle said...

that was fast!!!

Dawna said...

I know.It was extremely fast.but i hate it, everyone hates it there. The pay for the strawberries is shit.And for the last 3 days we have been pulling weeds,which i guess isnt so bad cus that is by hourly,not like the strawberry pickin which is by tray..so if you suck at picking, you dontget alot of money..

Jen said...

That's cool that you got the job so fast though. How long is the strawberry season out there. If it only lasts 3-5 weeks(like here) try stick with it. Is it better then cleanin' sheep guts:P

Rochelle...do you wish you were still in Australia? Would you go back?

Rochelle said...

i think you meant asparagus picking Dawna... and Jen, yes, i wish i was still there. i had the most amazing time. it was summer and everybody was on holidays. so now, when i go back, i'm gonna expect it to be the same but it won't be... and my plan is to go back in 2014... February or March. stay for a year, come home for 2-3 months, stay for another year, come home, go to Africa for a month, Europe for 2, and then come home...