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.
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.
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!!!!!
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! :)
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