my life down under

One more try

2010-06-22T04:56:00.002+10:00

As mentioned some time ago, I won't give up ;-) New day, new try. I will post some information here and some over there at immigration-tips.org. So cross your fingers! :)

Part 485

2010-05-27T08:42:00.000+10:00

Don't stop me nooooowww....the dream is still alive. Right now some ideas popped up. So let's see if I get things going. Updates soon to come!

This is what makes Sydney so....Sydney

2010-05-04T17:50:00.003+10:00

and this is why I want to come back so badly...

Why RIPCURL HAS TO bring me back to Australia

2010-01-08T06:10:00.000+11:00

Since you all know I would love to go back to Australia - and actually I think RIPCURL simply has to manage this for me. Why? Have a look at this:

In 2007 I bought a pretty cool RIPCURL backpack at Bondi Beach.

Unfortunately the backpack now looks this way:

Since this all happened WITHOUT being surfing all the time (well in Germany and Austria is not that much space for surfing...actually there isn't that much of a beach either...) I think that RIPCURL simply has to get me back to Australia in order to get a new awesome backpack and to prove that it's the coolest of all brands! Don't you think?!

i'm a dreamer

2009-12-30T23:23:00.000+11:00

Alright. Long time no see guys. It's the end of 2009 and since I declared 2010 as MY year I thought it's time to start early so that there's enough time for 2010 to get used to me ;-)

So let's start with a quick check: Am I in Australia? - No! Will I change it? - hopefully! Almost 2.5 years are gone since I left Sydney and even though a lot happened in the last time, I still miss it like hell. So it's time to get back on track and make the dream come true. Don't you think?

I know pretty well that it's becoming harder by the day to find "real" work as foreigner in Australia. But hey... I'm pretty good in what I'm doing...you guys down under need me! ;-)

So folks. I'm really convinced that this year will become a good one - hopefully with me going down ;D stay tuned!

Come to Australia :-)

2008-12-18T17:15:00.004+11:00

Part II went online

2008-12-11T09:45:00.005+11:00

As published before, I wrote some german articles for a Australia-Community in Germany. The 2nd part was just published. So if you wanna read something in German about my life down under...there you go :-)

Good ol' days..

2008-11-11T04:02:00.002+11:00

Some time ago I just happened to write for a german blog about Australia. Actually I wrote two parts of my "aussie experience". Today the first part was published. So if you're interested in, just check it out by clicking on the following pic.

tastes like home...

2008-11-06T10:09:00.002+11:00

pretty strange feeling this week during lunch break. was just walking down towards the Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany and started drinking a fresh mango-maracuja juice...and it somehow tasted exactly like one of my favorite juices I used to drink in Sydney. Man. Felt pretty strange, familiar...really like home. For a few minutes I felt like lying in Bondi, a fresh boost juice in my hand, a marvellous view at the ocean...

really hope i'll be back some time!

Access Denied!

2008-09-15T21:15:00.002+10:00

A week ago I received mail from 'my company'.

We are sorry to tell you, that our visa application was rejected. Unfortunately we are not allowed to employ non-Australian people...

Fantastic. It took the immigration office 4 months to realize this?!! And 3 weeks before my scheduled take off they realize it? F..k! Pretty racist thing by the way. Anyway...can't change anything. Dream is over. Thx a lot!

no worries?

2008-08-20T09:22:00.002+10:00

Well...nothing happens...still waiting for my 457 to be approved...as time gets by, I loose confidence day by day ;-(

2008-08-04T19:18:00.001+10:00

still waiting for my visa....

all good things come to...a beginning ;-)

2008-06-26T09:13:00.003+10:00

Well. Finally I was able to send my signed employment letter back to the amazing company where I will write my thesis. Had to wait for quite a while since I first had to ask my professor for permission. Now that he said "yeah, sounds cool.." I was able to sign, seal and deliver ;-) So now we gotta wait for the visa...so keep on going crossing your fingers - so far it really helped a lot.

Cheers :D

Fingers crossed...

2008-04-26T09:26:00.002+10:00

Just had a date with my professor ;-) We've been talking about a possible topic for my thesis in Sydney...sounded quite good actually. But still a lot of organisational work left. So no party at the moment. But chances are rising. Maybe it'll work out...so, fingers crossed! :)

Back into Hell ;-)

2007-09-26T10:37:00.002+10:00

Well. After starting the day at the beach, we've been picked up by the airport shuttle in front of Noah's backpackers. Then everything was kinda automatic....the flight back home with quantas was pretty comfortable...but I wasn't really able to enjoy it. I started missing oz as soon as I entered the plane...

But, no matter what it takes, I'm sure, I'll be back! :)

Final Countdown

2007-09-25T10:34:00.002+10:00

Well. Not much to say. Our last day in the most beautiful city on this planet. So the agenda for that day was: enjoying! Spending some time at the beach, doing one last trip to the city...having nice dinner at darling harbour...actually kinda sad to write about it...but our last day was, what else can I say, amazing!

One love...

Blue da ba di da

2007-09-24T01:03:00.004+10:00

After gettin' up at 6:30 (!!!) we had a quick breeky, then went to central station and took the train up north. Destination: Blue Mountains!

When we arrived, we took the shuttle bus to the Three Sisters and started there our journey through this marvellous mountain world.

We discovered the Blue Mountains for hours and hours....but, of course, weren't able to see all cool places. But anyways. A cool day out there :)

When waiting for the last shuttle bus to take us back to the train station we had some minutes left and spent them on a playground. A nice ending for a really nice day ;-)

Home sweet home

2007-09-23T00:17:00.000+10:00

After a exhausting bus journey we arrived at about 6 am in Sydney. And when seeing the Harbour Bridge it felt like coming home :-) Pretty strange feeling though. But somehow cool =)

At 6:30 we arrived at Central Station..tired but happy :) Unfortunately we lost the number of Noah's Backpackers so that we took a bus to Bonid & checked for rooms at reception....they told us we had to wait till 10:30 (since check out was at 10). So we went to my home beach :), relaxed, enjoyed being home, had a boost juice and slept a little. Then we went back to the hostel, got a room (not thaaaat amazing, but quite ok) and went to the city afterwards.

There we had a nap at the Royal Botanic Gardens :)

After our rest we went to the city, "shopping" ;-) and finished a really cool day with dinner at Darling Harbour.

Bye bye Byron Bay

2007-09-22T00:01:00.001+10:00

On ou last day in Byron Bay we locked our luggage in a locker somewhere in Byron Bay and had, once more, brekky by the beach. Afterwards we walked to "Australias most easterly point"...

While walking to this thought to be famous place we passed the annual "Chili Festival" and we saw the first few raindrops...but didn't matter. We went on. Of course...We then had our first break at "Wategos Beach" which was quite cool and then continued to "Julian Rocks".

After enjoying the view at the ocean we went on to see the most easterly point of the australian mainland. And then. There it was...

And right after arriving there, it started to rain...heavily. So we started walking back since there was no place to wait for the rain to stop. And the rain didn't stop. It was raining cats and dogs all the time. We walked for about 45 Minutes through the pouring rain and were completely wet when we came back to Byron Bay. Since we had to check out at the hostel earlier that day, we had no place to go and change. So we first went into a café and hat a hot chocolate. The rain then stopped for a short while but started again when we went grocery shopping. We then got our bags out of the locker and changed at an public toilet our clothes. Then we diceded to wait close to the busstop under some roofs till our bus from Premier arrives. Whil waiting we decided to have pizza, once again ;-)

BUT having pizza wasn't that easy. It was still raining cats and dogs. And when the rain stopped for a few moments Sascia went to the pizza store in order to get some while I was waiting with our belongings at the bus stop (YES, I OFFERED TO GET THE PIZZA, SHE REFUSED! REALLY! ;-) ). But then it happend...while Sascia was waiting for our food, it started to rain again. And it was not simple rain. It was pouring! Monsoonlike torrential rain came over Byron Bay. Since it did not stop after some minutes, Sascia decided to go for a run. Pizza in her hands, Water everywhere, spontanious rivers in Byron - everything the nature could offer was against her. But finally she made it. All wet, but with pizza in her hands...and it only took about 2.5 hours till she could smile again ;-) Thx Babe! You'll always be my hero :-)

The bus then arrived pretty late and we checked in and had quite a surprise when we saw our seats. They where in front of the toilets and there was less space then we were used to from Greyhound. But anyway. Of we went...back home ;-)

Byron Bay - Day II

2007-09-21T23:57:00.000+10:00

After gettin' up not to early ;-) We walked to the beach and had breeky there. Then we just chilled a little while watching the surfers and started writing some postcards. Afterwards we took the long and partyl steeeeep way to the lighthouse. We passed by the "rainforrest walk", had to take some long and hard steps but got marvellous views and saw a fantastic sunset.

When the darkness arrived, we went back, went online to check some mails and stuff got some groceries and had a relaxed evening at the hostel..

Brissie - Byron Bay

2007-09-20T20:49:00.000+10:00

After checking out at the hostel, we went to the city, put our bags into lockers and booked our journey from brissie to sydney with premier motor (cheaper than greyhound). After telephoning with 3 hostels we finally found one that wasn't that expensive. Then we strolled through the city and the botanic garden. once more we've been a little disappointed - knowing the botanic gardens in Sydney...

We then wrote some postcards, blog entries and once more went to coles and had dinner at subways..then we got onto our last Greyhound and travelled south towards Byron Bay.

After arriving there we've been picked up by a courtesy bus of our hostel...but the distance between greyhound drop off and hostel were only about 500 Meters...no comment ;-)

The rooms at the hostel were pretty nice, there were cool amenities and everything was very tidy.

After unpacking we took a stroll through the main street to the beach. Had a look at some of the nice shops and enjoyed the sun disappearing behind the ocean...

Brissie

2007-09-19T19:30:00.000+10:00

We went from Noosa to Brisbane and at first we were happy to come to a big city again. But, honestly, after living in Sydney for 6 months, Brissie can't compete with Sydney in any way. The hostel was pretty bad, the amenities were awfull and the rooms were carpeted and not very tidy...so better stay somewhere than at somewhere to stay hostels.

After arriving we walked to the city. Unfortunately, everywhere we looked was a construction side. So there wasn't a lagoon, beach or something else at the riverside. :-(

The city centre consists of one big mall street. Nothing special in my oppinion. Since we weren't that excited, we took the time to do some organisational things like cancelling the Westpack Account, going online, booking next Greyhound and checking some hostels. Then we took the free loop bus (cool thing!), had dinner, walked to the hostel and then went to coles, did some grocery shopping and had 4 icecreams (4pack was cheaper than 2 single ones..) ;-) then we went home and to bed...

Australia Zoo

2007-09-18T19:19:00.000+10:00

This day we followed the call of one of Australias biggest heroes. The croc hunter called...we picked up one of the free courtesy busses and headed to the Australia Zoo. Steve Irwin's home. Before arriving, however, we had to watch croc hunter videos during the complete bus ride. For over an hour. Maaaaan. Crickeeeeeyyyyy (Steve's slogan). Guess I wont watch any episode for the rest of my life ;-)

But after we entered Australia Zoo everything was fine. Some really cool animals (Wombats, Kangaroos!!, Aligators and so on). A really nice zoo, but to much Steve.

Arrival at Noosa

2007-09-17T19:12:00.000+10:00

We checked out at 7 am and picked up the Greyhound at 8 am and left amazing Hervey Bay ;-) Once again we had a pretty funny driver who threw the bags into the bus like he was hammer throwing ;-)

At about 1:10 pm we arrived at our Noosa hostel. Our room was called "Wabby". Nice ;-)
All at all the Noosa Backpackers Resort could've been a littler more tidy - but after sleeping in the wilderness short before, that wasn't much of a problem ;-)

We then walked to the town, checked out the beach (pretty nice. a little more elegant than the ones we saw before) and had a relaxing evening.

Fraser - Day III

2007-09-16T18:50:00.000+10:00

We woke up at about 6 am, had a short rain shower and realized that the tent of our 4 english guys broke down during the night - but they didn't realized it and slept in the broken down tent. Hail the alcohol ;-)

At abotu 6:30 we started towards the Eurong resort where we did our last dish washing and where we had brekky. Then we started our one hour inland drive towards Lake McKanzie. When arriving we couldn't really believe that it was exactly the same like one always sees it on pictures. deep blue water, turquise shallow water - oceanlike.

While laying at the beach for a few hours, our english guys got their typical english tan (reeeeeeeed) ;-) At about 2 pm we went back and headed for the ferry station. There we checked the tyre pressure, had some icecream and then went onto the ferry.

When returning to the hostel, we first had a shower and then met again at the "all you can eat pizza night" at the hostel. After talking for some time with our Fraser-Mates we said goodbye and went to bed. What amazing days!