horse farm diary #3

Hello there everybody!
It’s a day off again and I am seizing the time to get connected (and buy some real cowgirl boots and a kariertes Flanelhemd). Unfortunately, since I don’t have a car, I am not really mobile here so all I do in my spare time is reading and trying to get to the net. Therefore my next goal is to get a car.
Kathy offered to help me since her partner is a mechanic and they might wanna buy the car from me when I leave. So we had a look at a few pretty rotten cars that actually did not even deserve to be called so. I’d prefer a stationwagon so that I could sleep in it in case I need to, but they are not that easy to find. But still, better to look for here in the blue mountains then in busy Sydney where cars would be still a lot more expansive. I learned a lot about the pronunciation of foreign car brands. For example a “Subaru” is emphazised on the last syllable and therefore sounds like “schubidu”. Funny, though.
So what happened in these last past days? Not that much. Kathy’s son Anthony came back home from the northern Territory where he worked on cattle stations. He does not get along too well with his mum, that’s how I got a roommate, finally one with a car. For our first big grocery shopping tour we went to Aldi! Yes, there is Aldi down here! But there were not that many German products, except for the Christmas stuff. It is only a little bit more than two months to got till Christmas, but I am not in the mood for it at all. Though the weather has not been as I’d liked it to be, it is getting spring here. The nights are still pretty cold up here, and the days were rainy and foggy. On Tuesday, it was raining in the morning, so we closed and took a day off. We went to Bathurst, a small town which is some 100km away from here on the other side of the Blue Mountains, but promised to offer some change to the by now well known mountain towns around here. We were in 4, the two girls that also work at the farm, Kathy’s son and me. It turned out that Bathurst is not any more exciting than the rest, so we went Bowling (I did not lose!), to McDonalds and to the movies. So far so bring, but on the way back Anthony remembered that there is a racing track for stockcars, there has actually been a race there last weekend, and so went on the track. You could actually drive on it like on an ordinary road! No entrance fee or anything like that. Unfortunately, we did not have the cars to speed up a bit, but it was fun though. Photos will follow ;-)
Now it´s time for car hunting! Since we are not busy tomorrow, I’m gonna post some photos then.
Take care!
xxxxj