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 :)
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