That said, I guess Karumba is a fairly big part of my oz experience so I don't want it to go by undocumented. I've made some great friends here and I think we will stay in touch after we go our seperate ways.
Last Tuesday was Amy's 23rd birthday so we surprised her with a sunset crab and croc tour and a party at the house.
Luckily, the 4 pommes, me amy, rach and Jules all had the night off to spend it with her. The tour was great. We didn't see any crocs but we got lots of free alcohol and we were on the water as the sun went down.
We'd spent the day decorating the house and getting ready for the party. we went all out and put up balloons, streamers and our own union jack flag. We also made vodka jelly and our version of pass the parcel. I couldn't believe that our german and french canadian housemates had never played pass the parcel! talk about deprived childhoods!
The party ended up being so much fun. The chefs cooked up a feast and there was more than enough alchohol to go around. Plus we all woke up with no hangovers, winner! vodka jelly is clearly the way forward ha
We've also managed to make friends with some of the local lads. They remind me of my male friends from Scunthorpe -Very loud but totally harmless. They definitely liven up the tavern a bit. They invited us to a party they were having on the beach last saturday so we all went down for a few hours. There was a fire and music, all you need really. It was just a shame I had to work at 8am on sunday so we couldn't stay longer. Hopefully we will be able to do it again before we leave.
One bad thing is that Dean got sacked last night. We both arrived at the same time and we get on really well so i'm gunna be sad to see him go. We are all so mad about it because he didn't even deserve to be sacked. it was just our shit manager trying to look good in front of the owner and make an example out of him. It was so unfair. It wasn't even worthy of a warning and yet they fired him.
To make it worse, him and Jules have been seeing each other so she is going with him. She wasn't getting enough hours anyway but because she had him here she stuck around. Now she doesn't have anything to stay for so she is leaving Thursday with Alex and Rach. I'm going to be sad to see them all go and we are going to really struggle with so few staff.
A guy I met in Cairns called Matt came up to start work on Wednesday so at least thats one more person here. Not sure what he will think of it but hopefully it will all work out.
I'm not sure how long I'm going to stay in Karumba for. It wont count for my second year visa and me and amy both want to get started on that. It is a shame because we like it here (most of the time) but there's no point staying here for 3 months to have to go somewhere else for another 3. We've been told that theres a pub in a place called croydon 200 km away that would sign off the visa if we worked there. Only thing is amy doesn't have 3 months as she has to go home in September for her Dad's birthday before coming back out again. We also have a contact that we made in the bar of someone that owns a cattle farm so we might call him and go work there instead. It is just deciding when to leave. We were thinking the 5th July but one pay day later would be the19th, the day after my birthday. It would be easier to be here for that but probably have a better night out in Cairns or
somewhere. So lots to think about atm!
Anyway, think thats everything for now.
Love and miss everyone lots xxx
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