Work&Travel in Australia

G´day everybody,

Its been quite a while since this happend. I´m writing about this 5 months too late but I´ll try to get my grey braincells to remember most of it.

So after my first couple days in Brisbane I moved on to the ex-racehorse-farm (Life With Horses Limited) near Mount Samson, where I found some work for accomodation and food for two weeks. It turned out to not really be my cup of tea. Well, for one I had to get up at 7 O´CLOCK IN THE MORNING, which, no! The people were not really that nice, or maybe a bit fake nice, it kind of fit into my stereotypes against people with horses. Obviously not saying everyone is like that! But I feel like often, having horses, having these huge and beautiful creatures under ones control, gives some people a massive feeling of power and control and I think sometimes its connected to an superiority complex. Alright this might be a bit of a strong theory but I think there is something real there. Not with everyone that loves horses, but with quite some.
Anywayyys I didnt get along that well with the owners and the other girl that worked there, and I also made some mistakes when it came to mixing together the horse food. And after a week the owner was like, I´m sorry but we feel like its not working out, we´d like you gone tomorrow or today. Kind of fair but also kind of rude since they didnt keep to the guidlines of the platform (workaway) through which we organized this. We had to work more then 5 hours a day sometimes and we also had to work in the morning and evening of one of our two free days. On top of that we had some canned food but only 25 AUD per person per week to get vegetables, meat and other fresh products, which is seriously not alright. Working more then 25 hours a week and then not even getting enough fresh food is just not acceptable.
But, in the end, it was good to experience that. Getting fired was obviously my fault and it showed me what I need to work on to be able to do and survive future jobs. Although it turned out I havent had learned my lesson by then but thats another story for later...

There was a couple cool things that happened though! I saw my first Kanguroooo. Just chilled with him, stalking him a bit, I was quite close. Just like 10 metres apart. Funny creatures. I swear, god was getting a bit uncreative and took the head of a dear and stacked it on top of a weird muscely animal body. And thats how the Roos were made.

I also loved hanging out with the horses and giving them some scratches, they are really fucking beautiful and majestic, its fascinating.

On my free day I went to the Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, was a very good time. Beautiful seeing all those crazy animals that make up Australias fascinating wildlife. Im gonna miss that so much once I get back to Germany. Because how boring is that? No colorful lorikeets, no deadly poisonous sea and land creatures and not even some of those weird geckos that crawl across every outside wall at night, screeching like a lost bird. How did I ever live a life without that???

However, after getting kicked out from my job at the firm - it really was LIMITED after all höhö - I went back to Brisbane and then on to the Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise. So on we go with life and history...

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