Afterburner

Why hello world! Been a while since you all heard from me, well I have moved down to Jindabyne, NSW working up in Thredbo as a Room Attendant, for now, trying to move into snow grooming actually. Anyway, loving it down here, best decision I made in a long time, just love love love the cold and the snow, its wonderful.

I am living in a three bedroom apartment which is one of four apartments. There are six of us in here, we all share a room to two people. My roommate is Adrian, he is a cook/chef, and is into photography, and its his MacBook Pro I am using to post this blog. My other roomies are Shannon (Lift Attendant), Kylie (Bar/Bistro), Amanda (Bar/Bistro) and Joanna (Ski Instructor). Great people, we all get on well so its awesome. Adrian is leaving soon though, back to Brisbane, he isn't getting enough hours so when he leaves I will have my own room which is pretty cool.

So its a different life, but it's great. Now working a 9-5 type job instead of being self employed, its not a bad job, nothing to write home about but nothing to complain about either. All we do is clean rooms out, pretty simple really. I am pushing to get myself on board with snow grooming however, and am in the process of applying to Canada, which I have decided to do without Global Work & Travel, while I'm sure they are fine, it's too expensive for me, they charge a big fee themselves and you can do it for much less than what they want to do it for you.

The weather here is hectic, changing all the time, sometimes it can be as cold as the coldest day on the Gold Coast, then it can get really cold, I let the car warm up for five minutes always, sometimes you have to scrape frost off the whole car, and sometimes snow. Adrian and I went about 5-10km past Thredbo the other day to take some photos (which I will upload soon) and it was a pretty intense experience for a new guy like me, got to the stage where there were no other car tracks in the snow, and we only had the red reflectors on either side to guide us, once the snow got about 20cm deep we took some photos, and turned around. I am by no means a seasoned snow driver, so I didn't want to crash or get stuck way out in the middle of no where.

I am trying to snowboard, been out only twice so far. It's pretty painful I have to say, learing how to turn is what I am focusing on right now, but I can just tell that once I nail it, it will make it all the more rewarding. I bought all my snow gear so I have it for the season, including a snowboard, I didn't splash out and get good gear, mainly because I am learning, and can't afford it, I plan on getting better gear in Canada.

That's all for now, time to hit up some resorts in Canada and the snow grooming department at Thredbo. I'm not online much, so for those who know me, phone is the best point of contact.

Sam