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Published: March 15th 2008
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Life on the papaya farm a.k.a. the health farm!!!!
So one week later I’ve survived a week here!!!! Although the room I stay in is basically a shed and there are so many rodents n frogs n lizards everywhere etc I’ve survived one week!!!!!
Managed to make the room a bit more normal after about 5 evenings of cleaning and having to sweep it out everyday it is half ok!!!!!
So life on the farm isn’t all that bad, the people here are all ok, the two girls I live with are actually quite nice Rebecka the Swedish girl is small and sweet and Lena the German girl is a lesbian but she’s really cool and nice so can’t complain too much!!!!! Plus there are a few others 3 israely guys and Kristina another Swedish girl but they live in different accommodation.
Life here basically consists of:
-Sleeping 10pm-6am
-Getting up 6am & ready for work
-Picked up for work 6.45am
-Work 7am-5pm (2 15 min breaks and an hour unpaid for lunch)
-Dropped home 5.15pm
-Cleaning/walk/showering/cooking dinner etc 5.15pm-7pm
-Free time-tv, laptop, book, write stuff etc 7pm-10pm
-Working mon-sat sometimes sun as well and
sometimes not sat!!
-Day off-walk to dimbulah to go to the shops or shop, use phone/internet, go to the pool!!!!!
So not much to do or not much changes, quite nice to have such a good routine and just be earning/saving lots of money. You can kind of call the farm a health farm as well because its quite a healthy lifestyle, providing you don’t buy any crap food from the shops then you pretty much eat healthily because there is def no vending machine or café or takeaway or fast food places nearby!!!!! So it’s ok as in a good routine, eating healthily, getting 8 hours sleep, working lots and hoping to save $500 a week now which may be tight some weeks after tax and rent etc but should be doable.
The biggest downside to the farm for me is the accommodation and mainly that there are possums, rats, mice, snakes, frogs, toads, lizards, spiders and lots of insects etc about which scare the crap out of me, mainly after dark it is the worst and if you need the loo in the night it scares me so much I can’t get back to sleep!!!!!
But yer one week has passed quickly so hopefully can do a few more!!!!!!
Wahoo two weeks and two days have now passed and im still here!!!!! Still pretty much the same old routine but some changes have occurred, as usual when you’re travelling you meet people but they come and go, the two girls that were here when I started have both gone now, Rebecka the Swedish girl left first she only lasted' one week and Lena left after two weeks so I was down to being the only girl living in the shed for one week but kylie was coming on fri 15th to join me and keep me company. Have spent more time especially at the weekend with the 2 israely guys but not so much in the week, but it is kind of like big brother here or something anyone can come and go at any time its like we’re being controlled and anything can happen lol!!!!
But yer survived two weeks two days, kylie coming tomorrow for two weeks so then I will have done 4 weeks 2 days so going to try and make it up to 6 weeks here so
then half way through my 3 months rule thingy be about the 9th march when I leave here then and I will have done 6 weeks hopefully save $3000 which is £1500 roughly so we’ll see still got a while yet to go!!!!!!!!
So Kylie arrived and moved to the farm on Fri 15th thought it would be really cool her coming but she actually turned out to be quite hard work as a person, over the next few weeks the people on the farm kept changing people came and went, kylie and Kristina left, mel, becca and two other german girls Sabrina & andrea came, plus a new german guy, a new English guy and a new israely guy. So it all changed about, was fun but sometimes it got annoying with the same people living and working together.
One Sunday had a cool day out to a place called Chillagoe which is the next main town on from Dimbulah 95km away and it was just as small as Dimbulah, Johnii, Jungle, Kristina, Eric and I all went for the day, the only thing that was there which was cool was the caves which were actually closed
but we climbed on all the rocks etc which was cool.
Another Sunday I went with the 3 boys to a wicked lake called lake Tinaroo, this was a wicked day out, really nice weather and the lake was massive and beautiful scenery we swam in the lake and drove all round it through the forest etc it was cool. Only bad thing about the day was Jungle had my ipod and speakers in his bag and managed to leave the bag by the lake at one point and when we realised and went back the bag had gone so lost my ipod!!
So anyway all in all I spent 6 weeks in the end working on the pawpaw (papaya) farm in Dimbulah, in some ways it went really quick but in others the long days at work dragged. Have completed half of my 3 months agricultural work on the farm so need to do another 6 weeks to get my second year visa for oz. The family who own the farm actually turned out to be pretty mental and scarey and always argued etc. Met some nice people though and had some cool days out. Most
importantly I was doing ti for my second year and to get some money I manged to save about $2400 in 6 weeks which was pretty good, my main reasons for leaving the farm earlier than planned was because a room came up in Anna’s house in Cairns which is a gorgeous house and I didn’t want to turn it down so said yes to it and had to start paying rent so didn’t make sense to stay at the farm any longer.
So after 6 weeks I was finally moving back to civilisation and to a house in Carins!!!!!!
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