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After i was all done in cairns i headed back down to sydney to catch a train to tamworth where i was doing a 5 day jackeroo course, basically it's a cowboy course. It was spent riding horses which i have never done before, and using the horses to gather in cattle, along with some whip cracking and lasooing. I also watched a sheep get slaughtered which was great fun, and then whilst the guy was taking out itgs innards we had a couple of vet students on the course and they were talking through the different parts. We across the womb and it turned out there was a little feotus in the embryotic sac whicvh was such a lucky thing to see. It was only the size of the tip of your finger and you could see its heart still beating. After all the excitement had died down over that i had the honour of chopping off the sheeps head with a meat cleaver and there is a great photo someone took of me doing it which i need to get them to email me. I think the most fun thing we did though was wrestling calfs, they were huge and one of us held its tail whilst the other grabbed its head. We had to take it down to the floor and then hold them down whilst they were castrated and branded, i was lucky enough to have a bit of scrotal blood get squirted right on to my lips....yummy! We had the best group, everyone got on so well and we were laughing the whole time, the staff where all a great laugh too and the week was topped off with a cracking night out in Tamworth with about 12 of us going out for a good piss up. After the course finished i realised i had NO money whatsoever so a job was needed, i have been working on a farm for the last 2 weeks washing bulls and indeed blow drying them which was an interesting experience. Driving 4x4 around the land which was awesome, branding sheep and drenching them (squirting stuff into their mouths to prevent worms). The hardest thing we had to do though was load bails of hay on to a truck, 400 the first time and 500 the next, using these big hooks reminiscent of 'i know what you did last summer' needless to say we were rather knackered by the end. Those two weeks have just finished and me and my irish mate rob who im now travelling with have just arrived at a new farm to work for another 2 weeks before we head over to Perth on the west coast to work at the mines to earn some really good money to use to travel the rest of australia.
You may have noticed there are no pictures here, and i am incredibly sorry to say its because my camera was stolen along with all my pictures and my mp3 player as well, so no more pictures im afraid. Sorry to those of you who just looked at those and didnt bother reading.
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bollocks!
fuck! captain insurance? tell me you employed captain insurance! if you didn't i might just kick you in the nuts when you get home! bastard. and i'm glad your blood lust hasn't been reduced at all :D and um well you wanted to work on a farm back home, so it's not even like you've changed your life at all :P how goddam easy was it to get a job?! 'i realised i had no money, so i worked for a couple of weeks' JUST LIKE THAT! buggery.