Blogs from Central Business District, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 14

Today I woke up at 8:30 after sleeping 9.5 hours. I am almost caught up on sleep. The day started off slow, I grabbed a shower and made breakfast. While I was eating breakfast I went on the computers. I checked my mail, went on Facebook and caught up my blog. While I was on the computer I got a txt from Mike saying he was on the train to go to the Trades and Labour hire agency office. Because of this I went downtown. I got groceries and deposited 500 dollars pay in the bank. I am now just short of 4000 dollars with 500 owed from last week. From there I went to Peter Pans where I used half hour of free internet I had there to add about 30 pictures to my Facebook ... read more

Well i'm down to 1.5 days left in Australia... 4 weeks has really flown by. Kinda taking the last few days to reflect on everything i've done in this awesome country. Kinda sad how i need to leave, but now i have 4 weeks in Thailand with the same group of people... ahhh... stability in knowing someone more then 3 days... It's not even making me feel bad that i've had 4 drinks before 1pm... LOL... its five o'clock somewhere and lets just say this is the first day i drank before noon... Thank you to the Australian's for being so nice to me and i will be back...... read more

So I finally got to play my didgeridoo! I went to this Gallery in downtown Brisbane where you can make your own boomerang or emu caller.. which I may have mentioned before. I actually went to do it after a few days being in Bris.. but I started it and none of my colours were showing up.. so I was actually quite pissed off with the whole thing and considered snapping my boomerang in half.. haha. Specially since everyone else in that room appeared to be artists and were showcasing these master pieces! Jerks. haha. But anyway, I went back about 4 days later cuz the lady told me I could come back to finish it. And actually I half to say it turned out pretty good, I'll post a picture of it soon :) There ... read more

Brisbane. 3rd largest city in Australia. It's a nice enough place to be I guess but there isn't much to keep the seasoned traveller entertained. We toured the city on our first afternoon following the Lonely Planet's 4hr walking tour and saw the best bits of this laid back and rather quiet city. Our relaxing walk through the mangroves was interrupted suddenly when we came across a 7ft python slowly making his way along the boardwalk. The boards were only 3ft wide and we were forced to tip-toe past him, although it was at a pace that prevented him snatching one of us for dinner. The highlight of our stay (and probably the only other thing worth doing) was a visit to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. Even this can get a little boring when you've ... read more

Today I woke up at 5:00. Work was supposed to start at 6:00 and I had a good 20-25 minute walk to get to work. I set off to work at about 5:35 and made it to work ontime. There was already a worker there but the guy I was supposed to contact was not there yet. The job was at a very small urban construction site close to Story Bridge. Once the contact arrived I was told that I was not needed. I guess AWX had sent two guys on Friday to the site and neither were ordered and I was the third person that had been screwed over from them. After this I walked back to the hostel and went back to sleep. I woke up the second time around 10:00 having had seven ... read more