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Published: January 3rd 2011
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So, I left it at Airlie Beach --
Well, i left Airlie and headed North to Townsville and onto Magnetic Island! 😊
Booked into Base Hostel and got sent to what seemed to be the last cabin on the island!!!
Excited was how i was feeling because i was getting ready for my Scuba Diving course
and to finally get to swim on the 'Great Barrier Reef' <3
(at this point Rebecca was told but failed to come over) haha!
Spent two days doing my course and during the second day had a massive panick attack at the bottom of the ocean -- Nice one Sam :/
Still passed my course though :D - Qualified Scuba Diver right here!
After spending another night in a triangle cabin it was the Full Moon Party there were initially 8 SINGLE beds in our dorm - 3 were over capacity - BRUTAL, wasn't a pretty night.
Met someone from Brid there aswell - Charlotte Dickenson! strange you can be anywhere in the world and STILL meet someone from home :L
After another day on the island it was off to Cairns and my long awaited Bungy Jump :D YAAAYY!!!!
The
Weather in Cairns is Sweaty and Humid, no other words for it really!!
Nice place I guess, close to the essentials - Shops and Bars!!
I was planning on getting a job around Cairns but that came to a dead end so my fears where becoming reality and I was going home earlier than expected -- Didn't want to used my credit card, like a good girl!!
I was staying at 'CastAways Backpackers' and sharing a room with a lovely girl who was studying aboriginal and was getting into some deep shit with random families that have stood upto the law and have been witnesses to murders - was fascinating BUT like most things couldn't stick around to hear how she got on ):
So i caught a plane and headed for Brisbane and hopefully a Job!
I know what your thinking ''A job on holiday'' yea, Sucks, buttt you godda do what you godda do!
I spent all of two hours in Brisbane before i had a job in a place called Clifton.
I just had to get black pants for work and black shoes -- No Worries!!
So the next morning i got my arse on a
'Greyhound' Bus and spent 2hours listening to my ipod and hoping it was bigger then Kilkivan!!! hahaha
It was, Just!! I met the owners Kathleen and Fletch O'Shanley in Toowoomba AKA Tbar :/
They were lovely people and prepared me for the clientel - OLD PEOPLE!!
hehehe, Thank Jesus for old people!
They all welcomed me and made me feel at home.
I met some wonderful men, David Achilles, Billy Daulton, Keith Bange, Aaron, Rick & Jimmy... many more but you have no idea who im talking about!!
These men made me miss my grandad!! haha they are all legends in my book, mad as cut snakes the lot of them!
David brought me a lovely present one day -- a brown snake blown in half with no head. He had, in a brave manner earlier that day, got his two barrel shot gun and quote '' killed the bastard'' unqote!! haha
My girls around town were Kelly, Kirsty, Kathleen and the most down to earth person i will meet - Stacey Weier.
The Weiers are friends for life, they made me see the original Australia - Country and Family Through and Through, they will be meeting a British family
late 2011 when they get their boots on a plane :D Cant wait!
During my 4 months in Clifton i met two people that have literally changed mylife.
Pam and John are their names and guaranteed if they read this they will be so proud of me 😊
just like my mum they believe that i have a life to live and my journey isnt something that can be put on hold, as much as it sucked leaving them i had to go. Pammy was my surrogate mumma, and whilst typing this cannot help but smile, the memories are forever. :D
We all would sit and watch t.v after eventually figuring out how to use my hard drive in the cd player and watch random movies!
Without a doubt Snatch was THE best doing nothing but laugh the whole way through!!
Driving Pammy's automatic around Toowoomba was a mission, i miss driving!
Buying three tubs of ice cream because they were a right bargain!
Creating meaningful lives for carrots and other vegetables in the O'Shanley veggie patch!!!
But the creativity has to come to an end 😞 and so after 3Months and 3Weeks working in good old Clifton, i packed
my stuff on a second attempt at leaving (the first one went down in a ball of flames!) and left for Toowoomba and then onto Brisbane airport and then onto Sydney :D
Sooo, Sydney here i come!!!!
Untill then o loyal followers 😉 xoxxox
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