Fifth Email

Gidday all,

Second day of work is now over, it's still 34 degrees and its now 8:00 at night. Luckily we not further south, down in adielade they had a high of 43, melborne was high 42, they are having a bit of a heatwave over here at the moment.

As I write this a gecko has ran across the floor and has climbed up the wall, and is now running around on the roof. They have some weird stuff over here that's for sure. It's crazy here, either it's stupidly hot or freezing in 20 degree direct aircon blast. Unfortunatly my work bench is pretty much direct in the airflow so I might have to wear a vest at work. Work is... Totally not what I expected. So far it appears like it's a lot easier.
Much better tracking and invoicing systems than back home, but it is a larger company. Went for a coalmine medical exam today, they gave me the all clear. Got a two day coal mine induction at rocky on thurs and friday. Should be.... Interesting.

It appears there is a ticket for damn near everything, you just about need a ticket to say you are authorised to breath when it comes to mine work. Workshop is pretty poor compared to Ashleys, but on the brightside any tools we buy we can claim back as expenses off our income tax. Gst is weird over here, it appears to be mostly 10% but there's no gst on things like water and cereal.

No watties, heinz are close however. The baked beans are not as good as nz ones. They have mccains frozen veges and frozen chips which are nz, and mainland cheese, so thats cool. And you can buy marmite here. Just. One thing you cannot buy is a wire cheese slice. They just plain dont exist. And.... No one uses pozi screws. For anything. Its all philips. No square stuff either. That was nuts, cos everything back home was pozi pretty much. All sorts of crazy wee things like that all over the place.

So, might go and watch some tv briefly then hit the hay, I'm still kinda on NZ time, sleepy early and awaking early. It's pitch black by half 7, and full light by.. 5ish in morning.

The lizard has now done a complete lap of the ceiling and is looking around for his next challenge. Right thats all for now. Lots of interesting stuff in this country thats for sure. OK I'll keep you posted when I get a chance. TTFN.