Dam you Telstra!!

So we did go to Australia Zoo in the end, and wow, what an awesome place.  Although I think they named it wrong, it needs to be called “Steve Irwin land +Some Animals”.  Don’t get me wrong, he rocked and was gutted when he died, but wow! The highway to the zoo is called Steve Irwin way, your greeted by statues of him everywhere, posters and pictures of him everywhere, and before each show they salute him and speak of all the things he did.  The actual Zoo was pretty amazing also, the elephants were great and getting up close and stroking kangaroos and koalas was just fantastic.  I had so much fun that I plan to volunteer there for a week or two at the start of next year, be great to work with the animals and experience the zoo for a short while.  Side note about my trip to the Zoo, on the way back to the hostel, the coach driver stopped off at a roadside fruit stall for us all to grab some food for the bus trip.  I have never had such tasty strawberries and bananas in my life, mmm nom nom.

After the Zoo, got back to the hostel, had a quick bite to eat, and grabbed a beer.  The hostel has a TV room, so I went in there with Emanuele (one of the group im with for the outback training), and sat watching some rubbish TV drinking a beer.  It didn’t even take 2 mins for me to pass out and spill beer all over me, and this being only 7:30pm….. Think I am still suffering from jet lag.

OK, so Telstra = Bunch Of Idiots.  Trying to connect to the internet on my laptop using my mobile, which is something very common and I have been doing in Guernsey and England with no problems.  Diagram below:

[Laptop] ~~Bluetooth~~ [Mobile] ~~Mobile Signal~~ [Internet]

Long story short, 3 different people at Telstra fobbed me off with stupid excuses as to why it wouldn’t work, remember that I worked at Airtel and wasn’t the average idiot they deal with.  “Please use a different USB plug on your laptop” even though I told them I was using Bluetooth which doesn’t involve wires.  “Due to you using Windows 7 we can not help you” not sure what problems my laptop have that means my mobile cant connect to the internet…..etc..etc… This took 2 visits to their shop and a phone call lasting over 80 mins, to not get the problem fixed. Rant over, for now.

Tomorrow I am off to the training ranch to start learning how to be a cowboy.  Really excited, wait sorry, totally stoked dude!! Note to self, remember to speak Australian.  Not got a lot done today, in the reception area/computer room of the hostel is a couch that is so comfy, you just kind of sink in to it.  So today I have managed to sit here for majority of the afternoon watching films on my laptop. Nice.  I get my cowboy hat and boots tomorrow, will upload a photo or two of me wearing the gear.

FYI, I have realised that I may need to work on my camera skills, don’t worry, I’ll eventually learn how to hold a camera straight and still :P

I have been visiting the city centre a lot these past couple of days, and it is so modern, such a beautiful place.  All the buildings are brand new, with all the streets so clean and lots of live music in the streets. 

Anyhoo, check out my pics below, no video this time.  I’ll post again after my training at the ranch

Yee-haw

Ryan x

City Centre

City Centre 

Me posing in-front of giant silver balls

The elephants at the Zoo were massive, this one was called Sion

Koala!!

The Kangaroo is camera shy

I am not a otter

Guess where I am going..... Anyone?? No??