G'day mates
I'm just sitting in a propeller plane to Adelaide. Tom my boss has some things to do in Sydney therefore I fly with him to Adelaide and stay for couple of days at his Sis home. She is married and has two lovely kids I heard. One of them is hyperactive. Yippieh ^^
What happened till now? I arrived last week in Adelaide and was picked up by Tom. He is taller than me and he wears a gray brown and short bear in his face(pic: very unsharp). He looks very kind and his clothes are quality brands but look sometimes a bit too big or worn out. I liked him from the beginning.
Anyways he let me drive from the highway on his car from Adelaide to mt gambier. So I drove on the right seat of the car, on the left side of the street and it really felt like everything is upside-down. But I could handle it. You should know to drive on a highway is not really hard :) but in this week I drove most of the time and now I'm pretty good I think. Only sometimes I'm still confused when I use the indicator instead of the windscreen wiper :)
When I met Steve it was afternoon and we, Tom and me, sat in Steve's home and had a coffee. Steve is a rough shark fisher and he totally looks like one. Small, round face with short cut hair and burly body. His arms and his back are full of typically fisher tattoos: jumping shark, patterns and a big Viking with an axe on his back. I just wondered that there is no 'I love mum' tattoo^^
But he is very kind if he knows you. But I think he could also punch you right in the face when you're not nice to him. Anyway when he and Tom began to talk there was no sentence without the word 'f***'. 'where is this f***ing pencil', 'this f***ing rain is f***ing annoying', or 'I just f***ing farted in my f***ing pants' ^^ ok they didn't say the last sentence but you know what I want to say with these examples :) I had a lot of fun with this and I like to write the next part like that. So enjoy this f***ing part :)
When I met Steve it was also my f***ing first time that I saw this f***ing farm. And it wasn't my f***ing last time. In the following f***ing days I worked some f***ing hard hours in the f***ing shed at f***ing rainy days. My first f***ing work were to sort out the f***ing s***ted wool of the f***ing good wool while the f***ing sheep were sheared. It wasn't so f***ing hard but f***ing stressful.
-Ok enough f***ing words.:)-
There were 4 shearer who sheared the wool in about 2 mins each sheep. I upload a vid as soon as i can. So you had to be quick to sort the stuff out. Some other work which i had to do was mustering the sheep from the paddocks with a quad (that was really really fun and I totally enjoyed it to drive on 100 acres= 400.000 m2 ) with 50km/h, draft (separate the sheep) them in the shearing pens(these are small cabins where the sheep are hold till they've been sheared one after another) or use judo to drag them out of the pens. The judo part was really fun also it was hard work. Because you have to hold your hand under their mouth, press their head to their bottom and bring them to fall. After that you grab their front legs and pull their legs in the air and drag the sheep out of the pen(pics). I had to grin couple of times because it totally looked like the sheep are in a bank robbery :)
You don't know how silly sheep can be and how silly they behave when you're next to them. If they are mustered in the shed they try to have as much distance as they can get from you. So if you stands right in the middle of a group they create a perfect circle around you. And when you approach the sheep then they behave like teenager on a Tokyo hotel concert only reversed or as you have the worst disease. So they jump on each other and try to not get in touch with you. ^^ but actually they are only afraid of you.
There were many other interesting and sad stuff like walking through ankle deep mud, hear seperated lambs from their mom, hurt and sick sheep, look at sheep asses to see if it is a male or female (I had luck, I wore gloves) or crutch them( shave the sheep asses and clean them from s***; I had luck again. I only needed to throw them on their back. Tom did this work :))
For me it was a very interesting week and I'm thinking about to become a farmer. Mom and dad: I'm just kidding ;)
I hope you had fun to read it. Then till the next time :)
Then cu :)