What do you get when you cross a giraffe with a kangaroo?
It has been a fairly busy week here yet again, I think from this point in we shall assume all weeks as busy unless otherwise notified. A few more days in the workshop fixing radios and other miscellaneous bits and pieces, and a couple more cell tower checks. Funnily enough, they don't call them "cellphones" over here, they tend to laugh at you when you do. They are "mobile phones" over here.
One tower in particular was a good height, I'll stick a couple of images in at the end to show you. You do start to feel your arms by the time you get near the top.
This week overall seems to have gone without too many major hitches, either the Australians are finally getting some sense or else I am just becoming accustomed to their ways and am no longer noticing the things I once would have as being odd. Unfortunately even the voice that reads things in my head is starting to change... words like "advance" and "chance" and "advantage" are now being read in the local lingo instead of kiwi, which is going to be a problem when I come back.
At least I'm not in Sydney, they are 10x worse down there. At least up here now everyone is pretty normal speaking... Although they still reckon my Kiwi accent is pretty strong. Especially on the phone I am frequently asked to spell things out, "Nixon" communications is one that catches them out a bit. Sometimes it is just easier to put on a phony auzzie accent, that seems to work.
The funny thing is now some of the auzzies are actually becoming a little kiwified, for example last weekend we had 3 Kiwis and 2 auzzies out for some drinks and occasionally they would slip and talk with a kiwi accent, we totally laugh at them when that happens. They turn bright red and get really embarrassed, it's hilarious.
One of the guys we hang out with is from Invercargill, and talks as such with the R's. The other day one of the auzzie employees came in and said a sentence exactly like a southlander, we all cracked up and he went away with his tail between his legs, as he completely didn't intend to. I said "Good on ya mate" in the speights ad voice and all us kiwis got a good chuckle. We do have some laughs over here that's for sure.
We have a BBQ tonight with some more Kiwis and a couple of Auzzies, but we will have them out numbered again so that's alright. Should be an interesting evening, they have the Ralph Bikini models in town tonight so I imagine we might go and meet them, it would be rude not to I reckon.
Our new best Friend, (the guy we work with's girlfriend) managed to locate a shop selling watties tomato sauce and purchased us some, we are forever in her debt. That stuff is like heaven, after all the rubbish Australian sauce, watties was the real deal. It was totally as good as I remembered.
Righto, not much else to report really, the year is passing by so quickly it will be Christmas before we know it. Again. Catch you all later on.
Oh yes... broken legs.
TTFN
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