Off to KALGOOLIE...OUTBACK?!?!?!?

 What do you do when you have been fired from a job???? GO ON HOLIDAY...DUH!!!!

Go to the beach

take a tour of the prison at night....yeah I guess.

walk around town...play a game of lifesize chess??? 

Go to the market.

watch street entertainment.

hangout at the park and read a book.

Go out with cute foreign boys??? 

Check out new career paths

Think about getting a job so I don't become homeless.....

Meet another AMERICAN in time for THANKSGIVING!!!! YAH!!!!

Thanksgiving feast....not my favorite meal.

After spending two weeks in Perth (technically one week in Perth and one week in Fremantle), I have two job options. I can work on the beach all summer

 or work in a mining town bartending. I would LOVE to be so close to the beach but if my main goal is to make money/ save money then I know that I need to head towards the mining town of Kalgoolie....so off I go. One 7 hour train into the unknown....

I have been in Kalgoolie for almost a full week now. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT SO FAR. I have my own room, tv and mini fridge which seems like the biggest luxury EVER after spending the last 7 months sharing a room with 8-10 people. I have a boss that is wonderful and kind. I have a manager that is simply amazing and the people I work with are FABULOUS!! I am going to work so many hours at a wage that is worth the work at a job that is fun! I love everything here. The people are not small town people. They are mostly miners that are working in one of the many mines around Kalgoolie or live in Boulder (the town I actually live in) doing random jobs.  I have joined a gym that I attend daily and have to run 12 minutes to...its in Kalgoolie so technically I have to run to the next town just to go. (thats dedication). My room smells like campfire 80% of the day thanks to the pizza makers that cook in a wood burning oven. (campfires are my favorite smell in the world). I feel happy. Energized. At home for the first time in a long time.....I could not be more happy with my current location....even if its miles away from the beach. I plan on being here until the end of March (near my birthday)....and then I only have a few weeks left on my VISA. I can’t believe I am buying plane tickets to leave this country that I have called home for the last 7 months....and by the time I leave it will almost be a year. I am trying to slow down time.....how is it going so fast?!?! I am realizing that I am not going to get to see everything I intended on seeing....One year is not long enough.... It's December so I bought a plane ticket to the Gold Coast to retrieve all my belongings that I left at Ji’s house and to Sydney for NYE!!!! I couldn’t be more excited about the holidays!!! I will miss being home but this is the next best thing I can do! LIFE IS SO FULL OF BLESSINGS!!!!!!!