Jobs, they suck. I'd rather travel, or opt out, which I have.
Spent a few more days in Perth bumming around, looking for a job (half heartedly), exploring and enjoying some time in a building with electricity and running water. In my time in Perth I really enjoyed Fremantle; is a place I wouldn't mind living. Its like Redfern a little bit in its youth and energy but with a little more style; and yuppie thrown in to boot. But I wasn't idle in Perth... I had been emailing a lady who I met on a website (sounds dodgy... helpx.net) who has a property/farm near the town of Denmark (about 500km south of Perth, right on the bottom of WA, http://www.karrakreach.com.au/). She was looking for people to come and help her build her house out of mud bricks. Did I mention opt out?
So that's where I am now, staying for a month with 3 Taiwanese, 1 Brazilian, 1 Canadian and one Englishwoman. The deal is we work for 5 hours/6 days a week and she in turns provides us with free food and accommodation. We live in a nice little chalet with 2 bedrooms, nice kitchen, running water/electricity/washing machine/tv so it's definitely not roughing it. The view is also something else, enormous Karri forests surrounding us and right in front of our chalet is a pond full of ducks and geese. Not too shabby.
I arrived on Saturday afternoon which was perfect timing as Sunday is the day off, so I start work on Monday. I'm not really sure what I'm in for yet, but suffice to say after a month I'll be a brick laying machine (or gone after a week).
Spent a few more days in Perth bumming around, looking for a job (half heartedly), exploring and enjoying some time in a building with electricity and running water. In my time in Perth I really enjoyed Fremantle; is a place I wouldn't mind living. Its like Redfern a little bit in its youth and energy but with a little more style; and yuppie thrown in to boot. But I wasn't idle in Perth... I had been emailing a lady who I met on a website (sounds dodgy... helpx.net) who has a property/farm near the town of Denmark (about 500km south of Perth, right on the bottom of WA, http://www.karrakreach.com.au/). She was looking for people to come and help her build her house out of mud bricks. Did I mention opt out?
So that's where I am now, staying for a month with 3 Taiwanese, 1 Brazilian, 1 Canadian and one Englishwoman. The deal is we work for 5 hours/6 days a week and she in turns provides us with free food and accommodation. We live in a nice little chalet with 2 bedrooms, nice kitchen, running water/electricity/washing machine/tv so it's definitely not roughing it. The view is also something else, enormous Karri forests surrounding us and right in front of our chalet is a pond full of ducks and geese. Not too shabby.
I arrived on Saturday afternoon which was perfect timing as Sunday is the day off, so I start work on Monday. I'm not really sure what I'm in for yet, but suffice to say after a month I'll be a brick laying machine (or gone after a week).
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