Planning My Escape

I was supposed to have an easy day, with only 2 apartments to clean. Expecting that I'd be done by noon, Mrs. Morgan told me to go to Sophie's (Spencer's house, Godfrey's brother) in the afternoon. Got there at 2PM, and Sophie got me to wipe all the windows, inside and out, and mop their veranda again because apparently I didn't do a good job last week as there were still streaks.... For fuck sakes, when I was mopping it last week people were walking around with their shoes on, getting it dirty soon as I mopped it so what's the point? Anyway, I finished at around 3.30PM, but Sophie was out picking up the girls from school. I guess it was her son who had just cut the grass, and he said I was supposed to use the leaf blower to blow out the guest patio with all the cut grass bits.

When Sophie got home I thought I'd be done but she said that Mrs. Morgan said I was to stay there till 5PM.... WTF, I didn't know I had a work schedule. So she got me to do more windows and I could tell that she was trying to think up something for me to do. By then all the kids were home and she had a friend over as well, so everyone was just chilling while I worked. I tired to do as many windows as I can, but some of them were too hard to reach and had a bunch of trees in the way. Last week she also had me scrub out her kids' bathtub, and it was gross, the window had a huge cobweb over it. It was around 4.30PM so she got me to clean and change the bedsheets in their guest house. I did it like I would with the apartments so I didn't finish till 45min later, and I don't know if Sophie felt bad or that they were getting ready for dinner so she sent me home.

I was pretty upset when I got home, had myself a beer and was able to calm down when I played with Bear. I really wanted to just book the next bus and get outta here. I talked to Cam later on that night and realized that I'd have to do 88 days of farm work in order to qualify for second year, so maybe I should really stick it out till Christmas, but I don't know if I could last that long.... I've also emailed UltimateOZ and asked them to book my next buses for me after the farm. I think Greyhound only goes from Miles to Brisbane, so from there I could go to Gold Coast and spend my holidays there, then check out Nimbin on my way to Tamworth where I'd be taking the Jackaroo school after New Year. I've also talked to some people on the Facebook group SWAP Working Holiday Australia, and apparently quite a few of them have had to quit their farm job early because it didn't turn out to be what they expected. And what they said is true, I'm here to travel and enjoy myself, not to be stuck and miserable on a shitty farm.

Next day apparently Godfrey has told Mrs. Morgan that I've decided to leave, and I don't know, sometimes she just sounded sarcastic. She knew that I wanted to do the Jackaroo school, and she said: What are you gonna do after doing the course? Jackrooing? Um... Isn't that kinda the point?? Then I told her that I wanted to check out Dalby over the weekend, and she said sure, as long I pay for my own fuel... Afterwards she got me to pull out these tall fluffy plants I think they were Pampas Grass? Good thing I had my gloves on, but I was still getting scratched up from all the sharp leaves. Then I had to clean the third apartment and it was disgusting as usual, and the boys couldn't even pull the rubbish bins out to the road like they were supposed to so it was overflow with beer bottles.

I've just been so pissed off everyday with all the shit I had to deal with. The only time I look forward to is driving home after work, play with Bear, chat with Mundy, and enjoy my beers. I was able to finish early so I headed into Miles before the library closes. You only get 1hr of free wifi but I think I've got most of my research done, and UltimateOZ had emailed me back with a bus route for me. They said it'd be faster to take the train to from Sydney to Tamworth, and I could just book a day trip from Byron Bay to Nimbin for $35. I still need to look into it a bit more, but so far it's looking good. I also stopped by a café and tried the Aussie steak sandwich and man was it delicious!!!! It was strips of nicely done steak with some lettuce, BBQ sauce, caramelized onions, in between 2 pieces of toasts. Simple but delicious, much better than the steak sandwiches I've had back home that's usually greasy and hard to eat.

Back at home I told Mundy about me leaving and asked if he's been to Nimbin and what he thought of it. He said it wasn't for him, just a bunch of hippies and nothing else. I also asked him for directions to Dalby for tomorrow morning. It was pretty straight forward just following the signs, but he still repeated it several times to me like he did with Chinchilla. He also said that the shops open from 8.30AM to noon, which means I'll have to wake up early because it's gonna be a 1.5hr drive. However, they do have a library with free wifi as well, and a proper supermarket! Exciting!