This is the list of all blogs I posted while working holiday in Australia. Some are interesting; some are boring. Some are just status update and whinning; some are full of photos. They are in chronical order of the things happened and so is not necessarily in the order of posting time.
no star: no bother, skip it.
one star: a bit interesting.
two stars: worthy of reading.
three stars: Very good, full of memories.
From Taiwan to Australia: In this period(Sydney and Melbourne), nothing special happened. I was just a normal tourist.
In Australia
Unauthorized translation of 旅行的意義 The Meaning To Travel
Charming lady
An Australian citizen from Israel
In the kitchen
Global village
Again
Harder than expected
Bank account and TFN
Goodbye, hostel roommates
Shareroom
I learnt
In search of something
New Year Eve
Internet cafe in Sydney
In Melbourne
Doraemon's 4-dimensional pocket
Life in Echuca: I'd got drunk many times and made many friends here.
Status update
What I learnt when poor
I met several mates
Dust in my nails
What does Echuca mean?
When lost memory
Too crowded
Programming concepts revisited
All photos in Echuca
Friends I met in Echuca Backpackers
Friends I met in tomato packing shed
Long time ago
My first drinking night
The first karaoke night
Hannah's birthday night
The second karaoke night
Marion left
Chris, Chris, Hannah, Martha, and Nina left
Laura rode an impossible bicycle
No petrol
Approaching the end in Echuca
A crazy drinking night in Melbourne
Jennie was back with Sandra
Time to leave Echuca
Some drinking vocabulary
Travel in Tasmania: Pretty beautiful island, a nice journey.
Travel to Tasmania
Thanks to Joyce, Amanda, and Cathy
Towns in Tasmania
Sightseeing in Tasmania
All photos in Tasmania uploaded
Take Me Home, Country Road
Road Trip from Melbourne to Adelaide, then to Perth: I sincerely appreciate the road trip experiences.
Back online
no time
Road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide
Along the road trip
I'm in Adelaide
Starting to find a job
Songs I'm listening to
Lost in nowhere
Road trip from Adelaide to Perth
Perth and the pig abattoir: Slaughter? Killing pigs?
I'm in Perth looking for a job
Maybe I will become a pig slaughter
Memory in Perth
Memory in the pig abattoir
In Cairns, Northern Queensland: A bit tired of traveling and didn't wanna work.
I'm in Cairns now
Well, no job in Northern Queensland
Memory in Cairns
Work and wwoofing in Bundaberg: No money. Hard farm work. "Go fast or go home!"
I'm in Bundaberg
I'm doing "wwoof" near to Bundaberg
Memory in wwoofing
Picking tiny tiny tiny tomatoes
Sweet potato, capsicum, pumpkin, cherry tomato
Zucchini and Squash
Interviewed by channel 7
Time to leave Bundaberg
Coach Travel from Bundaberg to Sydney: Noosa, Brisbane, Surfers Paradise, Byron Bay, New Castle. Relax, sunburned, beaches, and bikinis.
In Brisbane
What I feel about Brisbane
Bye bye Brisbane and many Taiwanese
From Brisbane to Sydney
In Sydney then go home: Miss Taiwanese food very much.
From Malta
The last few days in a shareroom of Sydney
All video uploaded
---2007.12.01 start---
Sydney and Melbourne: 12.01~12.25 (25 days)
Echuca(work): 12.26~04.08 (105 days = 15 weeks)
Tasmania: 04.09~04.21 (13 days)
Melbourne: 04.22~05.01 (10 days)
Road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide: 05.02~05.08 (7 days)
Adelaide: 05.09~05.27 (19 days)
Road trip from Adelaide to Perth: 05.28~05.31 (4 days)
---half year past---
Perth: 06.01~06.10 (10 days)
pig abattoir(work): 06.11~07.11 (31 days)
Perth: 07.12~07.21 (10 days)
Cairns: 07.22~08.11 (21 days)
Townsville: 08.12 (1 days)
Rockhampton: 08.13~08.14 (2 days)
Bundaberg(work): 08.15~08.21 (7 days)
Bundaberg wwoof: 08.22~09.04 (14 days)
Bundaberg(work): 09.05~.10.13 (39 days)
Noosa,Brisbane, Surfers Paradise, Byron Bay, New Castle: 10.14~11.04 (22 days)
Sydney: 11.05~11.16 (12 days)
---2008.11.17 end---
2008/11/10
Working Holiday in Australia
Memory in wwoofing
I did two weeks of wwoof in Bundaberg with Kathryn and Grace. I met Kathryn in the tomato packing shed while in Echuca. Grace is Kathryn's friend in Taiwan's church.
Rolf and Robyn. The wwoof host.
(From left: me, Robyn, Kathryn, Rolf, Grace)
Can you believe? Rolf built this house with solar energy and water tanks.
It's about 20 minutes driving to city center.
Each has his own room, wow, lovely!
The work we did included: unload potatoes for feeding horses.
The horses are very shy. They'll run away as you approach.
Mostly, the work was weeding.
Cut off dead leaves of banana tree.
Eggs picking.
Strawberry picking.
And gather useless bushes, burn them.
A goat and a sheep. They have names, but I forget.
Two tame dogs.
And a cat.
Strangely. The dogs don't chase the cat. They play together.
After work, we may take a walk along the riverside to see a lake.
Or watch movies.
On Sunday, we went to church.
They sang before the sermon.
Grace, clergyman, and Beth(missionary in China)
And other Taiwanese.
Samantha, pretty beautiful.
Usually Rolf cooked for us.
Pancakes by Robyn.
Desert, rice pudding?
It's a good place.
But still we had to work to earn money. ByeBye.
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