15 décembre 2010
Holidays!

06 décembre 2010
Still in St George

11 novembre 2010
Arrival in St George

02 novembre 2010
Week 4 of grape picking/packing
No I'm not dead, i'm just busy packing grapes! It's been a busy four weeks. work starts at 6am and normally ends at 3pm.
We got a lot of rain two weeks ago which meant the boys had the day off, while we girls continued packing what the boys had picked the day before. the rain hurt the crop pretty badly so since then our work in the shed has got harder because we have to cut out all the rotten bits... yuck, lots of maggots and other not nice things.
The other workers organised a little suprise birthday party for me on saturday.... [Lire la suite]
12 octobre 2010
Road trip to Queensland and grape work

02 octobre 2010
First work experience in Australia
Very positive!
We had the chance of working for a very kind farmer called Rowan. His wheat field contained some other crop close to wheat but not exactly wheat (i'm sorry Rowan, I cannot remember the name of the crop!). He needed to get rid of this crop in order to be sure that he could sell his harvest at a good price. So we had to walk through the fields to go spotting the "bad" crop and pull it out. I don't have the photos here to upload but i'll upload them next time so you can see the difference between the two crops.... [Lire la suite]
20 septembre 2010
Our super equipped van!

15 septembre 2010
Sydney hesitations
More than ten days in Australia and still no new post !
I didn't want to put up a new post without any photos and truth be told, I took my first australian photos only 4 days ago !
So what have we been up to and what can be said about Australia so far ?
Well, we stayed 9 days with our couchsurfer Steve and his daughter Cassioppee. It was great to be settled and get out of the pack-your-bag-every-2-days routine ! On our second night in Sydney there was a couchsurfing party in a bar in town which was great... [Lire la suite]
03 septembre 2010
Sydney
