So I am down to my final hours in Sydney. I leave on the train this morning to head north to Newcastle. Then after a few days there I will be going inland to the country music capital of Oz. Then after that I will be doing a week of Jackaroo school, which is basically just cowboy training to help get a job in the outback. I can't wait. We will be running cattle and learning how to lasso and it's pretty much perfect for me.
I have loved Sydney and found it to be a great starting out point for me. It is just the beginning to my trip though and I really look forward to what I will encounter next. Anxious for the outdoors and some real adventures and trying new things. I am keeping a list of new things that I haven't done before.
The first notable one had to be the infomercial that I was in for a lovely(cheap) little kitchen product called the Reseal and Save! "I want one just for my RV. We go on RV trips on the weekends and this would be perfect!" I think it is airing in Australia and South Africa? It was 4 hrs of work and it paid well too. Plus it was hilarious. The thing kept not working and we had to reshoot the demonstrations. It was shot in a shopping mall out in the suburbs and it's exactly how you are picturing it.
The government taxes things like crazy here so random stuff is really expensive. I got a small bottle of 7UP and it was $3.50. I then bought a glass of beer and it was $3. Then a bottle of water was $3. But a meal only costs $6. I don't get it.
Saturday night was my last(and sort of first) really big night out. The sun was coming up when we left the club and absinthe is legal here. Nuff said.
Some final thoughts from Sydney:
-Most people are German, Asian, French.
-Germans love fanny packs. Gay.
-Germans can get away with it cause most of them are completely attractive.
-I've learned more French than I have Aussie slang.
-People are drunk everywhere at night. And out of control drunk at that.
-Most people have very little respect for the U.S. Obama is helping though, everyone loves him.
-Australians abbreviate everything they can.
-Meat pies are the greatest things ever.
-You're my third least favorite child.
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2 comments:
first, how were you lucky enough to get onto a paid infomercial? second, when that hits youtube please post a link.
i think the reason those bottles and cans were so expensive is because of a recycling tax and as a deterrent to using them in the first place. not 100% on that tho. btw i'll take three of whatever you're hawking, you little scammer
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