Well its been nearly two months since I left home to have an adventure in the land down under. And so far it has been an adventure but right at this time it is getting a little boring since I am doing the same job here that I was doing at home only with lower quality equipment. John Deere really is the best, sorry to all you misinformed other farmers! Haha Lately has been a little busier around here and this week looks like it will turn out to be quite busy. The sheep shearers start tomorrow and there is a lot of spraying to be done and the remainder of the sorghum is being harvested at the end of the week. I don’t know how much I will be doing with the sheep but I actually hope not that much. I don’t really like sheep a whole lot. I would prefer to spend a day on the tractor if it was my choice but I only do what the boss tells me. I have not played any rugby lately because my knee is still wonky. I got to say I have kind of lost my interest in rugby, just don’t have the motivation to play and after this weekend for sure not. Walgett played their first season game and had one guy break his arm in two places, one dislocated finger, a neck injury and one guy with broken ribs. While I am on this trip I would rather not be laid up for a few weeks. I would get destroyed if I played league games because I don’t understand the rules properly. 

I have to admit that I have been missing family and friends a lot lately, a real case of backpacker blues. Apparently a lot of first time backpackers get a little homesick at the two month mark and then get over it by the three month mark. Which I think is definitely the case since after this job is done in mid june I plan to do some adventure stuff. I plan to travel with an English bloke that I met in Coonabarabran. We want to travel from Darwin down through the Red Center to see Ayers Rock and then on down to Adelaide. It is a two week journey with a few nights under the stars in the middle of the desert. It sounds like a lot of fun, riding camels, swimming under waterfalls, spotting crocs and rock climbing mixed with doing some opal mining and spending a night in Coober Peddy. Its a town where almost everything is underground, shopping and churches included. Its kind of pricey so I will have to find a job once that trip is over. I think I will try to find a job in Melbourne, it sounds like a really interesting city and everyone from there thinks its the best city in Australia. But we will see how things pan out over the next month or so. And that concludes April 2012.