Maybe gonna get work in a mining for a while?

I don t know is it wright or wrong and I don t actually care if I m wrong, but I have also this little belief/faith in numbers. In a number of 7 as it is my birthday nr.

Today was 27 th of April. It s been around 17 months since I got to Australia first time. I just checked my blog and the total  number of views is 1701. I have 7 followers on my blog at the moment and there were 7 pageviews on my blog today, yesterday, it says, it had 37 pageviews. Lots of sevens  :).Though by now it is 28 th, as it is a bit over midnight by now.
 What I have observed sometimes or maybe I want to see that, if there s something to do with nr 7, then something good will happen to me or must happen. Few days ago I met Joseph from Uganda and I saw him today again and he said that his brother is trying to get a job in mining. Their very good friend from Congo is a big boss in that certain mine site and Joseph s brother, Ben, is  trying to go and work in there too. Ben also happened to come over today to the base with his wife, son and his wife s mother and I got to know him too. We changed contacts and he promised to say a word for me.

 Tony flew to London today, well, more like to Singapore for couple of nights before he flies to London and I don t know is it good or bad that he had to go just now when I m facing the questions with Immigration, but anyway, meeting with Joseph s brother was good. Maybe I m gonna work in mining soon? That would be cool experience and also good money I guess,  the only worry I have is towards my visa. I also met Tony yesterday, well, on the 26 th and he said that if there s need, he can contact minister of.. I don t know..Foreign Affairs? to speak for me. I don t know what would I do if I wouldn t meet him so randomly.

  I only have faith that everything s gonna  work out somehow even if it seems to be actually quite crazy situation. Visa is expiring in unknown number of days as I m on bridging visa now and I don t know their decision yet. I wouldn t have problem to get new visa, but I lost  my passport and I didn t complete the school, which I heard is something that they don t like as they had to cancel my visa now and they might think:
"Why should we give him a new one if he didn t use the last one fully?"
 But it s just the worst case. I already know Tony, I am in safe environment in the YWAM base and I know people from mining site too. That sounds good enough.

13 months without phone?! Wow..:)

It s 25 th of April. Time goes really fast and I feel that I start all my blogs with that phrase, but that s true, just lot of things have happened again. My school mates have been in London already for about 3- 4 weeks and I ve been trying to get to on another visa- Second Working Holiday Visa- official name of that. Though I feel I haven t done much. I didn t think it would take so long. Sending copies of my Certificate of Return to prove who I am, responding to Immigration for the requirements of health condition and things like that just have postponed the whole process.
 Meanwhile I got job from egyptian guy, who comes to the base that I m still related a bit. I wonder myself how comes that I, who loves to be in connection with people, didn t have phone for more than 9 months. Wow. Last time I used phone was in North Queensland. I remember it was so rainy day, well it was raining there for weeks and the family that I got to know later from the Baptist church, was stuck in the mountains for weeks too because of heavy rain. They used boat to cross some valleys, and when the water level wasn t very high, they crossed the river by tractor. So cool, I ll never forget that. But before I went to stay and work in their farm, I worked for another farm, that was banana farm too and that s where my phone got wet and broken.
Some pictures from the time when the rainseason hadn t started yet and few video clips too that one japanese guy recorded.

                                         Banana field before cyclone Jasi

Tory, who was sometimes very harsh, he had his own

sense of humor towards backbackers, but inside he was

nice guy. Told me sometimes about his kids and that s

where he became very kind and friendly, but as I said,

some people couldn t see that in him, because he was their

boss and for me he wasn t boss. For them he was very

commanding and if he didn t like somebody he showed it

with the "whole respect" so that nobody would get him

wrong. He would fire them immediately, but sometimes

he was just joking with that phrase and sometimes

people didn t understand when he was serious and when he

was joking. There would be more stuff to say about him,

but I leave it formyself, it s been already a year..

One more picture of Tory

Lunch time.

Me on the left and my brother on the right.

He came to work there for about month, before he

went to Japan to see his girlfriend.

 Back to my phone.
 I remember I put my phone to my right- side pocket to keep it dry? It was not possible to keep it dry in there, but I needed to take phone with me for that job- to know the time- because I was working there alone and far away from the shed, where we had breaks and lunches. I tried to keep my phone somewhere dry, under the different parts of tractor but by the end of the day, my phone was dead again.

That picture is taken from the truck trailer, and this

ute is about to drive through the flood too.

These pictures are taken after cyclone Jasi. It was the most devastated cyclone that was ever estimated in the whole Australian history. It was category 5, that hit this region there.

So weird to see how different it was after cyclone Jasi..Beautiful green land turned to gray and ugly, just like there had been bombing..

Video clips of how hard we were working there..:)

But in fact, I actually met Prince William too.

 As Tully was the most devastated place

 by cyclone Jasi, he flew to visit 

this place in person. 

He flew there with 5 helicopters.

This street would have been usually almost empty on 

normal day.

(phone story continues)
 I warmed it up for couple of times, and it began to work again, but one time it didn t start any more and after that I didn t buy new one, it was probably mid March, and now it is the end of April, year later. So I have been actually without phone for about year??? Wow.!!!!

But the beaches and the nature in North Queensland are corgeous!
Some picture from there then:

Anyways, after being there for about 4-5 months, I left that place and flew to Sydney for my birthday. My brother Janno was in Sydney too, I just wanted to celebrate my birthday with somebody that I knew instead of spending it with some people that I met recently.

On the first day in Sydney, just couple of hours after getting there, we decided to go and see Opera House and just maybe hundred meters or 2 before Opera house 2 estonian girls recognised our language and said Hi. It was so cool, I didn t expect to meet any estonian there. And next few days we spent it together before they went to New Zealand or somewhere, can t remember anymore.

 

 

 

And in Sydney I didn t buy a phone too, I thought if I get to Perth, then I ll get one, but then just kind of didn t need it. Actually it s not true. I used often my brother s phone and he didn t like it, but somehow it worked. I should have bought it, but I got used to not have one.
That s crazy, I stayed in Sydney for 2 months without phone. I came to Perth and was used to it, I kept being without phone for next 6 months too, actually next 9-10 months and to total up with the time in Sydney and the little time after finished working in Tully, it sums up all together 13 months.13 monthhsss!!!!!

So, here we go, some pictures from Cambodia..
Actually I still try to excuse myself how comes that I didn t get a phone during this time..Maybe because everything was organised by somebody, even the trip to Asia was runned by somebody and that s why again I didn t need to worry about things how to get here or there and bla bla..

Some pictures from Hong Kong too..

And some from Perth..

Now I m done with studies, hoping to get another working holiday visa, work and travel again a bit.
 I tried to get some work last week but then Rafik, the guy who recommended me the job, said, you need a phone and then I realised, well I guess it s time to have one. I guess it was sort of relaxed in some sense but maybe also careless not staying in immediate contact with people around me. When one australian girl Amy heard that I actually lost job because I didn t have phone, she wanted to give me one, I was like, no I need to buy myself, but she said she wants to give it to me and so it was, she gave me the phone and I bought credit myself.

So crazy!!!! I have heard of people having no account on Facebook, but no phone for more than year?
Actually one american guy, Seth, he just told me that he also haven t had it for long time, haha.
 ( Seth if you read my blog then please forgive me using your name in that context..:)
And eveyone else, who sees their pictures on my blog and don t want them here, let me know, I take them off. ;)

Anyway, that s it. Time to be connected also on phone! :)