Well guys today I have been living in Australia for 6 months.
Its gone super quick, it really has!
Thought today would be a good time to give you a quick update on how everything is going.
I'm really enjoying my new life down here and I'm so glad I had the balls to actually do it.
I don't think going through all the hassle and expense of getting a visa, packing everything into a container, flying to the other side of the world where you have no family and only a handful of friends. On your own, and then having to find work and some where to live has been easy. But it certainly hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be.
Obviously I miss my friends and family who I've left behind in the UK, but that is pretty much all I do miss.
Well apart from the gorgeous weather the UK has been having lately.
I'm not sure I will live in Melbourne permanently because frankly its too bloody cold! July was the warmest for 30 years, but it has been very cold at times, certainly too cold here to wear shorts all year round which is one of my goals.
The new job is going really really well. Some days I enjoy it so much I would happily work for free.
I never even considered a career working in the 4wd industry before I came here, but now I love it so much its a path I might choose.
Its funny how a chance meeting on a 4wd trip with Michael could be so life changing. He told me that the company I now work for was looking for a welder fabricator/mechanic. After going for an interview, doing a trial day and landing the job, I told him I would need to find some where to live. He then offered me his spare room, and so here I am living with him and his fiance Jessie. There both great people and I love living here with them. Especially as its rent free in return for renovating his house in my spare time when I'm not working on LJ, or away on 4wd trips etc.
I get on really well with Michael and I can see us being good friends for the rest of our lives.
I'm also now friends with a lot the people in his huge circle of friends which is nice.
I went and got my Australian driving license on Monday, as I am only allowed to drive on my UK license for the first 6 months. So I'm feeling slightly more like an Aussie now.
The gym is going really well. I go 3 times a week at 6am and run 5k and then do 30mins of weight training.
Today I have been to the local technical college and I looked around the welding workshop. I'm going to be re-training and basically doing an apprenticeship in engineering which consist mainly of metal fabrication and welding.
My boss has agreed to let me have a day off each week to go to college, and in return I will make back the hours by working till 5pm instead of 4pm and working till 9pm on a Thursday.
Its not going to be cheap and I'm going to be paying for it all myself, but I see it as an investment in myself and my future.
Once qualified I will be able to go and work in the mines as a welder and earn a fortune.
I want to buy some land and build my own house, what I don't want is a mortgage. So the plan is to go and work in the mines for a few years and then I will be mortgage free.
Sorry if I've bored you all to death with my ramblings.
I promise my next post will be cruiser related.
Oh and remember.........................
Right off to the city now with Michael. Its one of the guys birthdays so were going to a steak house.
