The jillaroo that gave me the phone called me on Sunday. Apparently Ross called jonno (farm manager where we were working) on Thursday and said that he sacked me (fired me) and also the following:
- I drank 2 cases of his goon
- I never wanted to move the trailer
- I took an 8-hour nap and then went for a walk
- I had stolen a phone with loads of credit on it.
Now I was gonna leave what happened between us and not ring the farm to tell them, but shit just got real. I told Tam what really happened, up to believe it or not, but she told jonno that those things didn't really describe me. It's true that I didn't wanna drive with the trailer on because I had never done it before and he had me paranoid I was gonna jackknife and bust it. Also true that I took a nap on Wednesday, during our lunch hour when we were at the house, as did he in his room, because I had a headache. I went for a walk that night, after he had said there was no-one at the house. I only drank three beers, which he offered me, and quite frankly the stolen phone lie is just plain laughable. He also mentioned to jonno that we had done fencing on ross' property the Monday morning before driving to the farm (false) and during another conversation with jonno, Ross mentioned how backpackers were the best chicks to sleep with (creepy, even when I change the language!!).
Gross gross gross creepy gross.
We agreed he was a nutter, and my friend Steve was talking with his roommate from Mitchell and she asked if it was Ross Tully because he's crazy. Good to know! Still figuring out how to word my email to Gumtree....
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
What an adventure!
Ok I got a job!
I'm a fencing offsider, which means that I travel with Ross Tully, the guy I work for (contract fencer), and help build fences. $300 per week, less taxes, and it counts (please God! I'm 90% sure) towards my 2nd year visa, of which I only have 44 more days left to complete!!!! On the weekends we stay on Ross' farm, just outside of Mitchell, and I have my own house with a sweet double bed. He eventually wants to turn his property into a farmstay/tourist experience, for those poor saps who have never lived on a farm.
This week we are an hour and a half from his property in Mitchell, so we're staying on the property where we're working. It's huge; the guy who owns (who i will never meet!) it is a millionaire, apparently he has 300 employees (on all the properties he owns), and there's an airstrip on the property, cuz he flies his plane here when he visits.
Today I drove his tractor, his ute, cut a small piece of pipe with the cutter thing, and tied barbed wire on posts. Those will be my duties, including straining the barbed wire with the tractor, which I didn't do today since I was still getting used to it.
I saw my first wild dingo, a turtle, and my first snake!!! It was a brown snake slithering across the road. The are poisonous. We were in the ute. Apparently Ross has one living in his saddle shed, on his property. Oh goodie.
Overall a great first day, in my opinion, but I think it's something to get used to. I don't mind the work at all, it's the company that I'll have to endure.....Ross talks a lot. And repeats himself (not anything important!). And mumbles. And is a true bushman, since I can only understand 80% of what he actually says. He wants company, I think, since tonight he was talking to me the whole time I was doing the dishes, not shutting up, not saying anything important. I think he might have been a little insulted that I didn't eat all my dinner (I was full, and am saving the rest for tomorrow) and that I go to bed early (it's 8:23pm currently, and he turned all the lights off and went in his room :/) and would prefer to spend time in my room. Oh well he better get used to it! I wish I had brought my computer so I could watch an episode of something but I'm pretty tired and 5:30am comes tooooooo early.
My sleeping bag is only good til 10 degrees, but I have a swag to sleep in with 2 additional sleeping bags to use as doonas (comforters). It's starting to get cold at night, and in the mornings.
Oh yeah I was given a joey today. He is much healthier than Barb (the sickly ones the backpackers in Roma are still raising), and the jillaroo that works here reckons he's about 4 1/2 months. I hope he survives the night/the week/however long I can keep/put up with him. I shall name him Joey.
G'nite! xoxo
10:45pm, day one:
After dreaming that I had been bitten several times by a brown snake, I wake up and hear this cranking sound coming from outside, immediately outside my window. I sleep with earplugs on, and it sounds like a wheel is being turned using some sort of ungreased system.... Sounds like cranking! It is pretty regular for about twenty seconds, and then only comes a few more random times. I'm freaking out, trying to rack my brain to think of what the hell would make that noise, when I feel something move at the foot of my swag. HOLY CRAP now I'm really freaking!!!!!!!! I cautiously get my headlamp (placed strategically beside my bed) and turn it on only to find Joey hopping around, making that cranking noise. He had gotten out of his bag, which had him wrapped in a sweater, AND the bag was surrounded by 2 doonas. He was freaking but eventually I got him back in his enclosure and surrounded it with pillows. He is still alive, kicking and no doubt hungry, at 6:22am.
Day TWO:
Got a lot of fencing done today! Tractor driving, pipe cutting, being yelled at (not yelled per say, it's just that he's Australian and wants me to memorise everything he taught me yesterday.....I should have written it down and gone over it this morning but it's not like an office job where I'm in the environment to write things down!!!!!
Ross needs to control his dog, Evie. She needs to be trained. He lets her do whatever she wants but when she becomes a hassle (and she is on the job, especially since I brought Joey to work today) he yells at her and if she's in the front of the ute I have to shove her where my feet are.
Saw the jillaroo (Tamara) as we were coming back to the house and she took Joey (it was decided to give him to the vet when they went into roma the next day, since I don't know where I'll be a week or a month from now) and asked how my day was. I told her I needed a beer lol and she invited me up to the main house to have a few with her and the boys (jonno the farm manager and his brother Ben who's visiting from rockhampton) so I showered and went over. Tam told Ross she needed to talk to a girl ;) went back for dinner with Ross and then back to the main house to watch The Walking Dead. I am a slave to tv!!!!! I love it.
Day Three:
Today my boss was explaining to me how Thursday's are always good days because Monday he's hungover from the weekend, Tuesday is a little slow (still getting over it), Wednesday you start getting in the groove and Thursday is the last big day since you knock off early on Friday. I mentioned it was only Wednesday and he said 'yeah that's what I mean but we'll be leaving tomorrow cuz they cut the work we were supposed to do'. Sweeeeeet I get back to Mitchell a day earlier!!! Thinking of getting a new phone so that I can actually have service at the house :)
He was more agitated today, and since I've never driven a tractor before and don't wanna fuck up his stuff, I would always ask or tell him where I would be taking it (turning around, etc) and sometimes he would yell 'what are you taking it there for??' etc......basically he sucks at communication. He was refilling the oil and he asked me to hold this and I asked what and then he shoves a cap at me and yells this! this! as oil is spilling on his hands. Also, he asked me to get a tool out of the toolbox and pointed at the ute, where the generator is. There is only one large toolbox in the ute so I start to go around to it and he yells 'why are you going over there?' I say to get the tool and he says it's in the box right there and points to the generator. I'm confused, I know there's no box or tool there but I look around it and still can't find it so I ask what box and he yells 'the one at your knee you just walked past it' so I look down and the toolbox he as referring to was attached to the ute (which I knew was the case for some work Utes). Wouldn't it have been easier and more direct to ask me to get the tool out of the box under/attached to the ute, instead of assuming that I have any idea how to read minds??
I get let off a bit early so he can do a dump run and load more gear on the truck so I shower and decide to head off to the main house to see if they're back from Roma yet. Something was supposed to be poised for us today and it wasn't so as I'm leaving Ross is coming in and I ask if he found jonno and he said no there's no-one up there (I assume he means the main house, but he could mean the workyard). I say I'm going for a walk, see you at tea (supper). I walk up the hill a bit, then turn around and he's standing there, at the gate where we had the exchange, watching me. Creepy, so I start walking away from that path but still towards the main house. Ben is home so we have a few beers then I drive a four wheeler back to the place I'm staying (fun!!!!!) and feed the calves. I had asked Ben if Ross had been to the house cuz he was looking for jonno and Ben said no, Ross hadn't come up there.
Dinner with Ross, chat with Tam while he's taking with jonno, then back to the main house to play cards. Tam was going over there to set up her new cell phone and invited me to come. Ross was present for that exchange, but he was outside when Tam offered me her OLD phone, so I could get service in Mitchell. I happily agreed!! So off we went after dinner so she could transfer everything and I could get the phone :)
Day Four:
Lots of yelling from both sides today. I need to quit, not because I can't DO the work, but I'm not the kind of girl he's looking for. He told me to push a lever on the dolly (machinery on the back of the trailer that slams up and down in order to put large metal cylinders in the ground). I asked what it did and he said 'push it and find out'. I notice a sign on the side of the dolly warning to have proper ear, eye, and head protection while using it. I am wearing sunglasses and a straw hat. Not feeling too safe, so volunteering seems like a dream option compared to this.
At lunch, he asks me if we have many foreigners in Canada ("like Chinese or Muslims"). WOW.
We're finally finished and as we're leaving the property he cracks open a beer. While driving. Now, I know that rural Aussies take 'roadies' (road beers) with them if they're going dingo or roo hunting, or jetting next door for a minute, and I dont approve, but it's their way of life. I don't feel safe, however, when you're on your SECOND beer and driving 90km down a dirt road that still has huge damage (holes and craters) from the flood. He had asked me if I wanted to drive and I said I would wait for the paved road. When I did drive, he was on his third beer. I was telling him how I had never driven in fifth gear before and he wondered if I had driven in Australia. I said I had, but never on the highway and thus only a need for fourth gear. Driving went well, not too much talking on his part, and I asked if he needed to get beer in town, so that I could see if I had reception. He didn't have money, so he told me to check it and yah reception!!!! The following is not an exaggeration:
R- I thought your phone didnt get reception
G- it doesn't. This is a new phone
R- I didn't know you got a new phone
G- yah I got it yesterday
R- why didn't you tell me you bought a phone yesterday?
G- because I didn't. It was given to me.
R- why are you keeping secrets? Get a new phone and dont tell me about it. All you have to say is 'Ross I got a new phone do you think it'll have reception in Mitchell' and I'd say yah sure but your keeping secrets now
G- I'm not keeping secrets, I just got a new phone so now I have service. It was a gift. I don't understand the reaction your having.
.....and basically it continues from there, with him yelling at me about not telling him about the new phone and keeping secrets (he kept saying 'this is the third secret' but when I said I didn't understand and for him to explain and tell me the other two 'secrets' he refused and said 'you'll see; things have a way of coming out') WHILE I WAS DRIVING and it got to a point where he asked me why I didnt tell him and I replied "because you're not my father! I don't have to tell you when I get a gift because is has nothing to do with you!" and he replied with "well that's keeping secrets and if your gonna keep secrets I don't want you living on my property" and I said "fine I'll be out of there tonight" and proceeded to ring Luke. Izi picked up and I told her I was in a situation where I no longer felt safe and if there was someone that could pick me up in Mitchell I would really appreciate that. I am still driving at this point. He then says that he's not gonna kick me out, I can stay the night and he'll drive me to the bus tomorrow.
Um................no.
Basically this continues, where I politely decline his offer of staying the night because I no longer feel safe, and he keeps insisting and then talking about keeping secrets....god it was so insane!!!!!! I secretly taped a conversation that, if I ever see you in person, I will play for you. Complete nutter.
There is more that I can recount, like him not being able to find the forms that I needed to sign for him, him refusing to sign off on my week (for my 88 days): "no! You're the one that's leaving" and then saying that he never said that (15 minutes later), and on the way to town he told me that if someone called he would give me a good reference because I was a good worker, but I'm done writing now. Off to the office to post this blog entry!
I am safe now, I trusted my gut and I had people who came to pick me up. I stayed in the Amby camp last night, and the camp leader Jemma told me "I'd want someone to come get me if I needed to be picked up". That made me cry.
So I'm back to volunteering, and I have my first shift at a bar this evening, so wish me luck :)
I think he had emotional/mental issues, as well as being an alcoholic (drinks three beers every night and more on weekends), but it's not for me to judge. I'm just glad I got out of the situation and kept calm and rational the entire time. Only when he drove away, leaving me with my bags at the bus stop, did I start to cry. I'm considering filing a complaint on Gumtree......
Love you all xoxoxo
I'm a fencing offsider, which means that I travel with Ross Tully, the guy I work for (contract fencer), and help build fences. $300 per week, less taxes, and it counts (please God! I'm 90% sure) towards my 2nd year visa, of which I only have 44 more days left to complete!!!! On the weekends we stay on Ross' farm, just outside of Mitchell, and I have my own house with a sweet double bed. He eventually wants to turn his property into a farmstay/tourist experience, for those poor saps who have never lived on a farm.
This week we are an hour and a half from his property in Mitchell, so we're staying on the property where we're working. It's huge; the guy who owns (who i will never meet!) it is a millionaire, apparently he has 300 employees (on all the properties he owns), and there's an airstrip on the property, cuz he flies his plane here when he visits.
Today I drove his tractor, his ute, cut a small piece of pipe with the cutter thing, and tied barbed wire on posts. Those will be my duties, including straining the barbed wire with the tractor, which I didn't do today since I was still getting used to it.
I saw my first wild dingo, a turtle, and my first snake!!! It was a brown snake slithering across the road. The are poisonous. We were in the ute. Apparently Ross has one living in his saddle shed, on his property. Oh goodie.
Overall a great first day, in my opinion, but I think it's something to get used to. I don't mind the work at all, it's the company that I'll have to endure.....Ross talks a lot. And repeats himself (not anything important!). And mumbles. And is a true bushman, since I can only understand 80% of what he actually says. He wants company, I think, since tonight he was talking to me the whole time I was doing the dishes, not shutting up, not saying anything important. I think he might have been a little insulted that I didn't eat all my dinner (I was full, and am saving the rest for tomorrow) and that I go to bed early (it's 8:23pm currently, and he turned all the lights off and went in his room :/) and would prefer to spend time in my room. Oh well he better get used to it! I wish I had brought my computer so I could watch an episode of something but I'm pretty tired and 5:30am comes tooooooo early.
My sleeping bag is only good til 10 degrees, but I have a swag to sleep in with 2 additional sleeping bags to use as doonas (comforters). It's starting to get cold at night, and in the mornings.
Oh yeah I was given a joey today. He is much healthier than Barb (the sickly ones the backpackers in Roma are still raising), and the jillaroo that works here reckons he's about 4 1/2 months. I hope he survives the night/the week/however long I can keep/put up with him. I shall name him Joey.
G'nite! xoxo
10:45pm, day one:
After dreaming that I had been bitten several times by a brown snake, I wake up and hear this cranking sound coming from outside, immediately outside my window. I sleep with earplugs on, and it sounds like a wheel is being turned using some sort of ungreased system.... Sounds like cranking! It is pretty regular for about twenty seconds, and then only comes a few more random times. I'm freaking out, trying to rack my brain to think of what the hell would make that noise, when I feel something move at the foot of my swag. HOLY CRAP now I'm really freaking!!!!!!!! I cautiously get my headlamp (placed strategically beside my bed) and turn it on only to find Joey hopping around, making that cranking noise. He had gotten out of his bag, which had him wrapped in a sweater, AND the bag was surrounded by 2 doonas. He was freaking but eventually I got him back in his enclosure and surrounded it with pillows. He is still alive, kicking and no doubt hungry, at 6:22am.
Day TWO:
Got a lot of fencing done today! Tractor driving, pipe cutting, being yelled at (not yelled per say, it's just that he's Australian and wants me to memorise everything he taught me yesterday.....I should have written it down and gone over it this morning but it's not like an office job where I'm in the environment to write things down!!!!!
Ross needs to control his dog, Evie. She needs to be trained. He lets her do whatever she wants but when she becomes a hassle (and she is on the job, especially since I brought Joey to work today) he yells at her and if she's in the front of the ute I have to shove her where my feet are.
Saw the jillaroo (Tamara) as we were coming back to the house and she took Joey (it was decided to give him to the vet when they went into roma the next day, since I don't know where I'll be a week or a month from now) and asked how my day was. I told her I needed a beer lol and she invited me up to the main house to have a few with her and the boys (jonno the farm manager and his brother Ben who's visiting from rockhampton) so I showered and went over. Tam told Ross she needed to talk to a girl ;) went back for dinner with Ross and then back to the main house to watch The Walking Dead. I am a slave to tv!!!!! I love it.
Day Three:
Today my boss was explaining to me how Thursday's are always good days because Monday he's hungover from the weekend, Tuesday is a little slow (still getting over it), Wednesday you start getting in the groove and Thursday is the last big day since you knock off early on Friday. I mentioned it was only Wednesday and he said 'yeah that's what I mean but we'll be leaving tomorrow cuz they cut the work we were supposed to do'. Sweeeeeet I get back to Mitchell a day earlier!!! Thinking of getting a new phone so that I can actually have service at the house :)
He was more agitated today, and since I've never driven a tractor before and don't wanna fuck up his stuff, I would always ask or tell him where I would be taking it (turning around, etc) and sometimes he would yell 'what are you taking it there for??' etc......basically he sucks at communication. He was refilling the oil and he asked me to hold this and I asked what and then he shoves a cap at me and yells this! this! as oil is spilling on his hands. Also, he asked me to get a tool out of the toolbox and pointed at the ute, where the generator is. There is only one large toolbox in the ute so I start to go around to it and he yells 'why are you going over there?' I say to get the tool and he says it's in the box right there and points to the generator. I'm confused, I know there's no box or tool there but I look around it and still can't find it so I ask what box and he yells 'the one at your knee you just walked past it' so I look down and the toolbox he as referring to was attached to the ute (which I knew was the case for some work Utes). Wouldn't it have been easier and more direct to ask me to get the tool out of the box under/attached to the ute, instead of assuming that I have any idea how to read minds??
I get let off a bit early so he can do a dump run and load more gear on the truck so I shower and decide to head off to the main house to see if they're back from Roma yet. Something was supposed to be poised for us today and it wasn't so as I'm leaving Ross is coming in and I ask if he found jonno and he said no there's no-one up there (I assume he means the main house, but he could mean the workyard). I say I'm going for a walk, see you at tea (supper). I walk up the hill a bit, then turn around and he's standing there, at the gate where we had the exchange, watching me. Creepy, so I start walking away from that path but still towards the main house. Ben is home so we have a few beers then I drive a four wheeler back to the place I'm staying (fun!!!!!) and feed the calves. I had asked Ben if Ross had been to the house cuz he was looking for jonno and Ben said no, Ross hadn't come up there.
Dinner with Ross, chat with Tam while he's taking with jonno, then back to the main house to play cards. Tam was going over there to set up her new cell phone and invited me to come. Ross was present for that exchange, but he was outside when Tam offered me her OLD phone, so I could get service in Mitchell. I happily agreed!! So off we went after dinner so she could transfer everything and I could get the phone :)
Day Four:
Lots of yelling from both sides today. I need to quit, not because I can't DO the work, but I'm not the kind of girl he's looking for. He told me to push a lever on the dolly (machinery on the back of the trailer that slams up and down in order to put large metal cylinders in the ground). I asked what it did and he said 'push it and find out'. I notice a sign on the side of the dolly warning to have proper ear, eye, and head protection while using it. I am wearing sunglasses and a straw hat. Not feeling too safe, so volunteering seems like a dream option compared to this.
At lunch, he asks me if we have many foreigners in Canada ("like Chinese or Muslims"). WOW.
We're finally finished and as we're leaving the property he cracks open a beer. While driving. Now, I know that rural Aussies take 'roadies' (road beers) with them if they're going dingo or roo hunting, or jetting next door for a minute, and I dont approve, but it's their way of life. I don't feel safe, however, when you're on your SECOND beer and driving 90km down a dirt road that still has huge damage (holes and craters) from the flood. He had asked me if I wanted to drive and I said I would wait for the paved road. When I did drive, he was on his third beer. I was telling him how I had never driven in fifth gear before and he wondered if I had driven in Australia. I said I had, but never on the highway and thus only a need for fourth gear. Driving went well, not too much talking on his part, and I asked if he needed to get beer in town, so that I could see if I had reception. He didn't have money, so he told me to check it and yah reception!!!! The following is not an exaggeration:
R- I thought your phone didnt get reception
G- it doesn't. This is a new phone
R- I didn't know you got a new phone
G- yah I got it yesterday
R- why didn't you tell me you bought a phone yesterday?
G- because I didn't. It was given to me.
R- why are you keeping secrets? Get a new phone and dont tell me about it. All you have to say is 'Ross I got a new phone do you think it'll have reception in Mitchell' and I'd say yah sure but your keeping secrets now
G- I'm not keeping secrets, I just got a new phone so now I have service. It was a gift. I don't understand the reaction your having.
.....and basically it continues from there, with him yelling at me about not telling him about the new phone and keeping secrets (he kept saying 'this is the third secret' but when I said I didn't understand and for him to explain and tell me the other two 'secrets' he refused and said 'you'll see; things have a way of coming out') WHILE I WAS DRIVING and it got to a point where he asked me why I didnt tell him and I replied "because you're not my father! I don't have to tell you when I get a gift because is has nothing to do with you!" and he replied with "well that's keeping secrets and if your gonna keep secrets I don't want you living on my property" and I said "fine I'll be out of there tonight" and proceeded to ring Luke. Izi picked up and I told her I was in a situation where I no longer felt safe and if there was someone that could pick me up in Mitchell I would really appreciate that. I am still driving at this point. He then says that he's not gonna kick me out, I can stay the night and he'll drive me to the bus tomorrow.
Um................no.
Basically this continues, where I politely decline his offer of staying the night because I no longer feel safe, and he keeps insisting and then talking about keeping secrets....god it was so insane!!!!!! I secretly taped a conversation that, if I ever see you in person, I will play for you. Complete nutter.
There is more that I can recount, like him not being able to find the forms that I needed to sign for him, him refusing to sign off on my week (for my 88 days): "no! You're the one that's leaving" and then saying that he never said that (15 minutes later), and on the way to town he told me that if someone called he would give me a good reference because I was a good worker, but I'm done writing now. Off to the office to post this blog entry!
I am safe now, I trusted my gut and I had people who came to pick me up. I stayed in the Amby camp last night, and the camp leader Jemma told me "I'd want someone to come get me if I needed to be picked up". That made me cry.
So I'm back to volunteering, and I have my first shift at a bar this evening, so wish me luck :)
I think he had emotional/mental issues, as well as being an alcoholic (drinks three beers every night and more on weekends), but it's not for me to judge. I'm just glad I got out of the situation and kept calm and rational the entire time. Only when he drove away, leaving me with my bags at the bus stop, did I start to cry. I'm considering filing a complaint on Gumtree......
Love you all xoxoxo
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Got a job!!!
On my way to Mitchell to work as an offsider for a fencing company.
$300 per week, drive a tractor and tie wire on fences.
Will be in the middle of nowhere working, though....so no cell or Internet :(
Hopefully Internet on Saturdays!!!
Fingers crossed that it's good. I am halfway done, only 44 days left to complete in order to apply for visa extension!!!!
Love you all, update as soon as I can xoxoxoxo
Monday, April 9, 2012
Photo!!!
This is dad, mom and I at brunch at the Hilton yesterday. it was a wonderful visit with my parents, whose generousity knows no bounds!!!
I love them to death, and although it was too short a visit, it was great to see them and give them lots of hugs and kisses.
I would post more photos, but the Sofitel has a data limit to their free internet, so this is the only photo you get :/
Once I'm back in Roma tomorrow, I'll have more time to post more photos of my time in Australia so far. BUT WISH ME LUCK IN FINDING A PART-TIME/WEEKEND JOB!!!!!
love love love love xoxoxoxo
Sunday, April 8, 2012
JOYEUSE PÂQUES!!!
Ça fait du bien revoir mes parents après 6 mois. Y sont trop cute!!!!
Ce matin on va à messe, ensuite dîner au Hilton.
Si j'ai l'Internet demain, je vais vous donner des photos, mais malheureusement je ne peux pas de mon iPhone :/
Gros câlins!!!!!! xxxoxoooxooxo
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Almost the weekend.....!
So.....having a baby kangaroo is fun and all, until someone has to get up in the middle of the night to feed it, and clean it's bum.
Her name is Barb (as in, barbed wire) and she is looking much better now than she did last week. Izi is clearly the mum, since Barb was getting diarrhoea when we first got her, and Izi was the main person feeding her and cleaning her bum. Did you know that mother kangaroos lick the joey's anus to encourage them to poo after feeding? Well, we use cotton balls and warm water :P
Her skin started to peel, and she had something wrong with her left eye, so we brought her to the vet on Saturday and the EXTREMELY FIT (that's means verrrrrrrrrry good-looking) vet said she had an ulcer, so we got eye cream for her, and have been moisturising her shedding skin. What we thought was going to be a free visit cost Izi $75 (quick consultation = $45), so she's gonna try and get that money back from Glen, since we are poor backpackers that should not be expected to pay for something we didn't ask for.
Mainly it's Izi, Michelle, Kim and I that make sure she's fed every few hours. I took the midnight feeding last night and did not sleep well at all. There is a reason why I don't have children!!!!!!
Barb is super cute, though. She gets the hiccups sometimes and by next week I reckon she'll be 'walking'. I really hope she survives.....
The other exciting news is that the camp is moving back to Roma!!! Apparently we're moving next to a tennis club (?). Hopefully we're moving Thursday, since Friday is a holiday (the team's not working and I'll be in Brisbane!!!) and I doubt anyone wants to move on the weekend, since there are so many activities on this weekend (it's called Easter in the County and it's gonna be a fun time....which I will of course miss in order to see my parents!). Pis j'ai tellement hâte de voir mes parents en personne!!!!! Ça fait 6 mois que je les ai pas vu, pis on va parler le bon français québécois toute la fin de semaine!!!!! :D
In other news, we move back to Roma tomorrow, for three weeks. Apparently we're moving into a room at the tennis club?? I'm gonna try to get a job on the weekends at one of the pubs, since we'll actually be living in town, not at some remote farm ;) but then it's back to Surat after that :/
Joyeuse pâques à tous!!!!
xoxoxo
Her name is Barb (as in, barbed wire) and she is looking much better now than she did last week. Izi is clearly the mum, since Barb was getting diarrhoea when we first got her, and Izi was the main person feeding her and cleaning her bum. Did you know that mother kangaroos lick the joey's anus to encourage them to poo after feeding? Well, we use cotton balls and warm water :P
Her skin started to peel, and she had something wrong with her left eye, so we brought her to the vet on Saturday and the EXTREMELY FIT (that's means verrrrrrrrrry good-looking) vet said she had an ulcer, so we got eye cream for her, and have been moisturising her shedding skin. What we thought was going to be a free visit cost Izi $75 (quick consultation = $45), so she's gonna try and get that money back from Glen, since we are poor backpackers that should not be expected to pay for something we didn't ask for.
Mainly it's Izi, Michelle, Kim and I that make sure she's fed every few hours. I took the midnight feeding last night and did not sleep well at all. There is a reason why I don't have children!!!!!!
Barb is super cute, though. She gets the hiccups sometimes and by next week I reckon she'll be 'walking'. I really hope she survives.....
The other exciting news is that the camp is moving back to Roma!!! Apparently we're moving next to a tennis club (?). Hopefully we're moving Thursday, since Friday is a holiday (the team's not working and I'll be in Brisbane!!!) and I doubt anyone wants to move on the weekend, since there are so many activities on this weekend (it's called Easter in the County and it's gonna be a fun time....which I will of course miss in order to see my parents!). Pis j'ai tellement hâte de voir mes parents en personne!!!!! Ça fait 6 mois que je les ai pas vu, pis on va parler le bon français québécois toute la fin de semaine!!!!! :D
In other news, we move back to Roma tomorrow, for three weeks. Apparently we're moving into a room at the tennis club?? I'm gonna try to get a job on the weekends at one of the pubs, since we'll actually be living in town, not at some remote farm ;) but then it's back to Surat after that :/
Joyeuse pâques à tous!!!!
xoxoxo
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