More orange

Ainakin omasta mielestä suomen pitäs ottaa mallia australian skeittirampeista, koska suomessa useimmat on muistaakseni tehty vanerista. Mitä järkeä rakentaa rampit puusta, kun betoni kestää kauemmin, kovin moni ei ala sitä rikkomaan eikä varmastikaan maksa paljon enemmän kuin vaneri. Alla muutama kuva Orange-kaupungin rampeista sekä paikallisista hurjapäistä. Jos olis ollut rullikset mukana olisin liittynyt seuraan. Huomaa toiseksi ylimmässä kuvassa bmx:n varjo alavasemmalla.

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At least in my opinion Finland should learn from Australia's skateparks because most of the parks in finland are made of  plywood. Below a few pictures of a skatepark in Orange and local "fast and furious". If I had rollerblades with me I would have joined them! Notice a shade of bmx down left in the second highest picture.

Couldn't believe my eyes :D

Want to give it a burl?

Orange

With a full month worked in a farm, we planned a one-day visit to orange which is only about 1,5 hour drive one-way. I'm content of what the city offers: vast amount of cloth stores, various places to eat, banks, book stores (found 2 very  good books!), and grocery stores. Locals also take good care of their surroundings and thee result is clean environment.

Doner with cheese!

Typical view in the outback (Eucalyptus)

Orange main street

morning...nice surprise

A few pictures of what has happened this weekend. I introduced the famous finnish summer cottage game mölkky to my roommates.  They like it.

week 2

Second week is fortunately over. Working hours have been either long or very long because there has been heaps of work with lambs. Local accent is far away from the perfect-pronunciated school english we've been taught. There are also plenty of farm-related words which takes time to "digest" and recognise. For example, it is cruicial to understand the difference between sheep, lamb, hoggit (not sure if it's written as that), ram and ewe to draft them succesfully. But basically what I've done is mustering mobs of lambs which I found quite challenging, especially when the instructions are not always very comprehensive.

Again, the nature is just breathtaking. We went hiking with two backpacker workers to Nangar national park which is just behind the corner, 30 minute drive from the farm. Roughly an hour hike in a pure Australian nature with wild mimosa (which smells just awesome), scentful eucalyptus and kangaroos, we made it to the top (700m) to find out extreme view of mountain range. It was totally worth walking up.

At the moment I'm in Forbes rodeo show, watching how at least half a ton oxen are ridden by brave cowboys, some of which fells off within seconds.. But I don't mind playing with my food :)