I packed up all my belongs, said goodbye to the girls I had met in my room who I can say are now friends and headed down to the bus depot. My bags thrown on to the bus and I was off to New Norcia. My friend Jo who I worked with in Southern Cross has been out in NN since January and had told me about the job. By 11:30am I was being dropped off at the roadhouse in NN. Rick, my new boss was there to pick me up and drove me around the tiny town before we drove up to the Hotel where I would be working. I threw my bags in the staff "Cottage" and headed into the bar to see Jo. We last saw each other back in January as I ... read more

I was up early this morning and I headed down to the pier to catch my ferry to Rottnest island which is just off the coast of Fremantle. It's about an hour ferry ride from Perth up the river out to Rottnest island. Once the ferry landed on Rottnest island I hopped off and grabbed the bike I rented. It's been a while since i've ridden a bike but I hopped on with my map in hand and headed off to see the sights. I started out ok and seeing some of the coast on this island was amazing. But the road started getting quite hilly and it was hot out so I was sweating a lot. SOme of the hills I had to walk up because I had no energy. I stopped at a few ... read more

The last few days have been the most perfect weather. Never a cloud in the sky. Today I sat by the pool and read a book one of the girls in my room had. I hopped in and out of the pool all day to cool off. The YHA in Perth has a free pool and a gym for it's guests. The pool is really nice and clean. It's so nice to just sit and relax by the pool. Kylie from Southern Cross and a few of the other girls were coming into Perth tonight as their mates Karen and Kenny were getting married the next night. I got myself ready and walked down to the hotel the girls were staying. Me and Jade caught up on all the gossip while we waited for the other ... read more

My last day in Sydney was raining once again so I got myself all packed up and checked out but just stayed at the hostel all day working on my computer and job searching. Not a very exciting day really. I decided to head to the airport a bit early so I hopped into a shuttle and got out to the airport. My flight to Perth went out as normal but didn't arrive into Perth until 11:15pm. I had to wait until 12:30am for a shuttle into the city so I didn't get in to my hostel until 1am. Not so fun coming into a full room in the dark and having to make my bed and even worse, a top bunk! Ah well, so glad to be back in WA!!!!!... read more

We were all up early and got mom and dad packed up. We went down to the entrance of our hotel to find a big cherry picker partly blocking the entrance. Mom and dad had ordered a shuttle to come and pick them up and take them to the airport. It was pouring rain out and there was no sign of the shuttle. We called them and were rudely told that the streets were flooding and they'd be better off getting on the train to the airport. They couldn't wait any longer so we called a cab for them which arrived within 5 minutes. After struggling with getting the luggage out the doorway we said our goodbyes and I watched my parents drive off. I headed back upstairs to pack up my own stuff and checked ... read more