Got the day off today so I'm using the McDonald's wifi in order to write this. Things are going well on the farm. There's so many cows everywhere! I've been working in a couple different areas of the "herd team." I've helped the repro/breeding team, the health team, and in the maternity section. I'm not sure if they plan to keep moving me around or not. It doesn't really seem like they need me right now but maybe they've got some backpackers leaving soon or something. All this week I'll be on the health team.
It's very warm here and they are in the middle of chopping corn silage. The weather is beautiful! It's very dry and gets up to 80 degrees about everyday.
I'm living in a shack, house thing with two roommates. It's pretty nice cause it's quiet and just 3 people. In the cabins where pretty much all the other backpackers live it's very very crowded and I've heard the Irish like to have loud parties. Our little shack is built onto the back of an old gas station and looks like if you'd light a match, the whole place would be burned to ashes in 10 minutes. But it does come with a pet mouse who lives under the fridge so that makes up for it.
And I've seen my first kangaroo! My roommates hit a Joey on their way to work which was still on the side of the road when I went past. Then I hit a dingo on the way to work. And at the farm, there was a contracted gunman shooting the flocks of cockatees that are all over the place here. It was a bad day for the wildlife in Gooloogong.