I know that the title of this blog is confusing. Dave and I are also confused. Let's just look back for a moment....
After completing 4 weeks of stomach bugs, honking, shoving and incredibly eclectic music, Dave and I returned to Thailand to stay with our favourite expat. We missed Gary, Somsee and their brood of horny dogs a great deal more on our last journey and were happy to get back into a routine in Chiang Mai. We would make terrible retired people, although we've got the golfing perfected, we mostly sit in cafes and go to the gym.
During our 3 weeks in Thailand we undertook numerous interviews and were pleased to receive some very attractive offers in Australia. Originally, we were quite interested in the east coast of Australia (think Cairns). However, we weighed the pros and cons and in the end we chose Perth in Western Australia. We'll both we working at the Jundee mine site with Newmont on a 9/5 roster.
We arrived in Perth one day ago and are staying in a wonderful hotel downtown. We had a relaxing first day enjoying a pint at a Fremantle pub, which Dave has been to before. Now back to my new name...a girl asked to speak to us not realizing we were more or less tourists. After asking our names, she came to know us as Biv and Jeff. Biv and Jeff were entirely confused by these two names, mostly because Jeff gave the girl her full name as Jennifer. Her excuse was that she didn't understand our accents, but Biv and Jeff are pretty sure that mixing up a one syllable name and a three syllable name makes the girl handicapped.''
3 comments:
Congratulations on your new jobs! Nice to hear you arrived in Australia safely!
Miss you both, love Auntie Pamela
I assume it goes without saying that Australia is well known for it's rampant dingo problems. Keep safe. If a dingo spots you, speak in well annunciated, clear sentences and use large words like "polymorphism" and "equilateral".
Babies do not know words such as these, and using them will clearly establish in the dingos mind that you are, in fact, not a baby and therefore, are not to be eaten.
hey Jeff. It's Kelly. We have already made to Australia and are looking for work. We should talk.
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