Australia

Hello to all!

The trip from Christchurch to Sydney was quite nice. The early flight gave me a nice jump-start on the day. I landed in Sydney and took the city rail to the center of the city where I then caught yet another train to New Castle. I went a stop to far unfortunately. I was walking around New Castle and I just new that wasn’t where I was supposed to be because there was no country link bus station, which my host Kevin told me that there was going to be. So I decided to go back to the bus station and catch a bus to bring me one stop back in the direction I came from. I asked and the teller said that I had just missed the last one. He told me that there was a bus in the area that would take me close to where I needed to go so I just decided to do that. I booked me ticket to Krambach and waited for four hours until the bus came. In the mean time I met an aboriginal woman that was really cool and she told me a lot about the area and Australia in itself. It was really cool to talk to her. 

It was about a two hour bus ride to the farm. When I got there it was around 8:30 and dark outside. The bus driver just dropped me off at the bottom of Kevin’s driveway and told me that there was usually someone there waiting with a car…but there wasn’t. I just got out my headlamp and proceeded to walk. The driveway was extremely long like most large farms. Kevin ended up picking me up half way on his dirtbike and brought me to the house.

This week has been filled with work! Kevin’s friend Ted is building an extension on the house and he needs a lot of help with that. It is really great because he is very patient and enjoys teaching me how it works. We do work long days but it is worth it in my mind. I’ve helped Kevin caught down a tree and then but it with the mill for our material on the job its really cool how self sufficient he is. I also drove a tractor for my first time yesterday and that was a pretty sweet first time experience.

Sorry that this is a short blog its just I;ve been really tired lately with all this work.

Cheers,

Jon