Goodbye Australia x

Hi blog fans.... How you doing?
Good yeah?
You sure?
Wicked....

Because its only the last bloody Australian blog that i'll EVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER WRITE!!!! :-0 DUM DUM DAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!! OoooooooWeeeeeeeOoooooo!!! LA DA DA DA DAAAARRRRRR!!!!! :-0 :-0 :-0

So..... Hope you're good anyway... Long time no see and all of that... Keep those shorts tiiiiiight! I will not be held responsible for any lost underwear during the reading of this passage... :)


So, there's a lot to cover here... Im pretty tired. Physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted... We're leaving... Finally... After coming to Oz in May 2013 like "Yeah, stopping over in 'Straya for a bit. Try to get a job for a few months, travel a bit, then move on to Asia..... Probably be here... a year or so?... Yeah, a year is a long time init... Yeah, crazy... Crazy shit blog fans..." Then, here we are, 23 months later.... And I'm writing this :p Isn't life a funny bugger! :)

I'll get in to the leaving school, and all that in a bit. First off, i'll start with the last trip we took, and just came back from.... Back in the new year, we decided to book a tour to Uluru and back before heading off to Asia. We thought it would be a good way to end a long stay in Australia. See the great Australian outback. Red rocks and kangaroo cocks... That's not what sold it for me... Just made that up :p So, we actually left Darwin on April 1st. We were treated to a goodbye meal by the school principle the evening before we left. To say thank you, and tell me how amazing I was at opening and locking doors, . He took us to the casino for Italian food. He's a really cool guy actually. Easy to get along with, and has had an interesting life. We could relate to him through stories of him leaving his village to seek education, and travel... Even though I didn't live in a village.. and im not really educated... But you know what I mean. After the meal, we got home, and after doing other things I needed to do, I started packing at 1:30am.. By the time my alarm went off, I slept 2 hours... I would later find that this was gonna be a reoccurring theme :/

Got on the bus in Darwin city with 20 or so other travellers, and headed south. We stopped off at a few waterholes on our first day. Waterfalls, creeks, sunburn... Typical Aussie shiz... The second day was a bit different though. Stopped off at the UFO capital of Australia, then ended up in the pub where the surviving girl from Wolfe Creek rang the police from to get saved. A lot of the backpackers were nervous. But we survived... Still got all my limbs, and my anal passage hasnt been sodomized... YET. So its alllll goooood ;) The earth was getting redder, the air was get less humid, and we finally made it to Alice Springs on the 2nd evening. From here the tour group was actually gonna get split up a bit, but we all went out for a meal and few drinks together that night. Few drinks, turned into a LOT of drinks, and my body was only treated to another 2 hour sleep, before catching the next bus towards the red centre, and Uluru. Coz I was so smashed, and didn't organize myself well before, I ran on to the bus late, in the same clothes as the night before, without brushing my teeth, and stinking like an alcoholic... The bus left our hostel, and started to pick up other guys joining our tour. Except this time the travellers were coming from nice posh hotels. 3 new girls came on. I was looking at them with my bloodshot eyes, and they kinda looked at me as if to say "GOSH, you're even smellier than my horsey!" :-0 But I just put my headphones in, and didn't really speak much that day... Unfortunately, it was never gonna be that easy... After a hour or two, we all heard a bang on the bus, and it turned out we popped a tire :/ Not good when youre in the middle of a hot desert. I thought we might have to do an Inbetweeners 2, and drink each others piss to stay alive. But we managed to roll into the petrol station before we resorted to that.. Shame, because I was getting a bit bored of drinking water... We didn't manage to fix the bus, so we had to wait for someone to drive a new one to us. Which is fine, because the desert is FULL of towns with buses and stuff. So it only took about 6 hours for it to get to where we were :) Luckily there was some emu's at the station, and I just fed them, and myself for all that time... We eventually got to our first camp site. We made a fire, put out sleeping bags, ate, and slept under the stars. It was really cool :) Got up the next morning early to head towards Kings Canyon. It was still dark... I remember this, because I brushed my teeth with Cats moisturizer... thinking it was toothpaste.... So my teeth were extremely silky that day ;) Kings Canyon was awesome. Walked around there for a good few hours, and then headed to the MAIN EVENT, Uluru... aka Ayers Rock :) .... A lot of people like to say "Urgh, Uluru, its just a rock!"... Which it is... But apart from being extremely iconic, its pretty fascinating once you know the history and the cultural relevance to the aboriginal people. What some people don't know, is that you can actually climb the rock, and probably get some really good views from up there. But after learning a bit more about the rock, and what it meant to the aboriginals, I was put off by it... We then heard that about 26% of visitors climb the rock. And if this number dropped to 20% or below, they would close it for good... We ALSO heard that if anyone DIED whilst on the rock, or falling off it (which has happened a few times) the aboriginal people do something called "sorry business". This basically means they self harm, because someone has passed away on their sacred land and home. Which is pretty sad to think about... After hearing all this, I decided to climb it anyway... HA, JOKING... I did NOT climb it! Calm DOWN blog fans! In our group of 26, only 2 people decided to. To be honest, if you decide to climb it, then youre really just taking away whats special about the place, and then it really is "just a big rock"... We walked around, took photos, looked in caves, and learnt about it... After that, we drove to a good view point, so we could see it at sunset :) And if that wasn't enough, a rainbow came out, and we had free champagne and crackers :p How emotional... We went back to camp, ate kangaroo and camel, and then slept out under the stars again. This time there happened to be an eclipse too... Not a bad day, ay.... The next day we all got up for a walk round Kata Tjuta (look it up), then got back to Alice Springs... Everyone on the tour were heading in different directions, and me and Cat were the only two that needed to get on a coach AGAIN for another 2 days back up to Darwin. (It was cheaper than flying). We went out again... Had a big roast, few drinks, swapped facebooks and all that... and got REALLY drunk again! Same bloody routine; 2 hours sleep, stinking, rushing, on the bus looking like a f***ing diseased rodent... This time, ALL the people on the bus were new. And this time ALL the people on the bus were girls! Seriously... There was one other guy, that kept himself to himself, me, and about 25 girls :/ I thought this could either be great or terrible... I was not in the mood to socialize too much, after meeting a load of cool people from the last tour, and starting from scratch with new people... Plus the hangover... Again... But it turned out all good :) All buses had a good crowd on them :)

SO! That brought us back right up to Darwin... We wanted to get back quick, as our friend Emily was having a birthday, and we wanted to see all our friends from the school for one more night out together... Got straight off the bus, to the liquor shop, dropped our bags at Emily's, and got on it :) It was our last proper night out in Australia, so I got 2 Passion Pops as standard :) We predrank at Emily's, went out, and then bumped into all the girls from the tour :) I was in a bit more of a sociable mood by then. But I mostly stayed with the school crew. Was a good night though :) As it always was with them....

And that brings me right up to now! Hungover... Again... Tradition :) Saw a few more guys from the school today. Got reunited with our boss Megan who we hadn't seen for a month or two... And unfortunately had to say a couple goodbyes :(

I wanted to write more about the school. The blog is long enough as it is, and its late, and I have a lot to do tomorrow :/ But this job has really been a God send for us... I keep telling people that I was kinda over living and working in Australia. After seeing friends and my parents in Bali, I kinda wanted to just go and travel more of Asia... And I would of, if I had the money. But I came to Darwin to work. Just hoping to get a job labouring, or something. Anything fulltime really... As long as I could save enough to travel again... After 2 months of struggling to get that, fate handed this job to us in the strangest way... Not only was it fulltime, but it paid well, and it was enjoyable. We had an awesome boss, everyone we worked with were the best workmates you could ask for. And it ended up being one of my best experiences ever... And it got better and better as it went along. We got to know a lot of teachers, and staff on personal levels. Kids got to know who we were. We'd always get a "Hi Cat, Hi Rob!" when we walked around. Social life was good. Had nothing to complain about.... We now have more money saved than what we were aiming for, and we can now travel Asia the way we always wanted to... :)

Leaving the school.., everyone here... our home.. and Australia all in one go. Kinda feels similar to when we left England. We feel happy and content here... And knowing that we cant come back, even if we wanted to, is the hard part :( We'll never forget our time here...

SO... That wasn't as light hearted as most blogs, was it blogs fans? :D On a positive note, i've been waiting to travel Asia for a LONG LONG time. So much more to come. And now every step we take, its a step closer to being back home :-0 To see all you ugly mugs again :)

Next stops: Philippines, Japan, China....
Keep your shorts TIIIIGHT for THEM!! :-0 OMG BLOG FANS!

Peace out Rabbits and Goodbye horses!!
Australia... its been emotional...
We're ouuuutttttttttt!

Zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopa!!!!

(Love you all)
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