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The job search...aka the journey to Mount Doom

What up yo - so our month long journey into the fine, fine city of Broome actually only ended up taking two weeks. HEH! Oh how the journey has felt as though it was actually two years long. But let me not dwell on things past (though I will certainly be updating where we went and such once I have some time) and rather let me focus on the task at hand.

It's that time again people - JOB TIME! Oh how the money I somehow managed to scrape up to get here has quickly disapparated (PS only two more weeks people, TWO MORE WEEKS! I can hardly sleep without fake-dreaming about Harry and the gang!!). So we've hit up every single place in town, only to find that no one wants to hire us, haha, except our brown friend at McDonalds. Seems we missed the hiring window by a week, oops. Who knew? BUT my friends, do not fret, all is well (at least for the weekend).

Yes, that's right, we got a job where "people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is as it seems!!" - THE CARNIVAL! Yes, your fellow Canadian gal is starting work at a carnival in less than an hour. What job will I be doing? How many gens will I have to observe making crazy faces? Will I want to continue living after it's all said and done? Who knows! Apparently the training session is so rigorous that we have to show up 15 minutes before the carnival opens. Which, by the way, is happening on a huge field in the middle of town (aptly named "the Male Oval" lol). Problem is - the carnival only takes up like one small chunk of land, haha, it's the smallest carnival EVER (though apparently with the world's largest travelling ferris wheel - though frankly I beg to differ)...no wonder they only need like 10 of us haha! The good news is that no matter how much it sucks we're getting paid $10/h cash in hand on Saturday, lol, annnnnd we get to spend the whole weekend looking at pretty lights!

AND get this - how better to spend Canada Day than in Australia working at a skeezy carnival with the promise of money the next day?! Add on top of that we'll be going to a Canada Day party apparently being thrown by other backpackers...AND I found my favourite wine kickin' around! Oh sweet sweet Happs' always sold out Fuschia - how you came to me after yet ANOTHER rejection from Blockbuster last night (why is that company so against me? I swear to god I could run every single business in town, these people don't know the MEANING of customer service!). Honestly - we went to the cinemas last night and Puja asked if they were hiring and the guy responded "for work?" HAHA OH GOD YOU TOOL - what the hell else would you be hiring for? Someone to dance around on the stage between movies? No wait - even THAT is work! lol!

Anyway that debacle actually continued when we tried to find the owner (he has two different locations) and couldn't...then this morning we finally did and when we asked to speak with him he was SUPER rude and wouldn't even look at us! Simply grunted that he was too busy, he was fine for staff and continued to be busy, haha!! Give me a break!

In other news I really miss the bookstore...people I know you're thinking "she's crazy!!" but I went into the only bookstore here to try and get a job and I really could have run the joint. I mean, when I enquired about HP she told me it'll be $39.99 (good god am I really buying two copies?! lol) and I'm like ohhhh...well I guess that's KIND of good, lol, and she's like no actually it's a really good deal - you see the retail value is $45 and it's a hardcover. I'm like oh sweet jesus you idiot woman - I know it's hardcover and I actually bought it for $22 in Canada, lol. Well I wasn't quite so blunt, lol, but MAN was I ever thinking that! AND THEN I STILL COULDN'T GET A JOB THERE, blast their limited staff! Though I guess I can understand it since every shop here is the size of my closet. The really small closet I had in Kingston. In fact, I'm not even so sure that was a closet - no wait, it wasn't, lol, our handyman built that shelving thing for me. Heh well it was small, you get the point.

Anyhoo as you can see I'm bored while I wait for this carnival business to begin and I'm trying to keep you somehow updated on my crazy poor life here in Australia. We've stopped eating meals and I'm fairly certain I'm severely dehydrated, lol, as we haven't had a steady bathroom or access to juice in days. ACTUALLY - here's something worthy of mention - I had Subway today, yummy (made friends with the manager, tried with no success to get a job there lol)...isn't it amazing that you can go half way across the world and Subway not only exists, but it smells EXACTLY the same?! How is that possible?! Well I don't know how it's possible but lemme tell you, today I actually really appreciated the smell of "home" lol.

So yeah, I'm feeling fairly cranky about jobs (or the lackthereof)...oh man have I told you that I'm in love with Alan Rickman? I've been thinking about him non-stop...I'm not really sure exactly why, lol, but I've decided that I'm in love with him and because he apparently loves Canada he must be in love with me too. He'll know it when he sees me. Which, of course, will be soon. I think I'm spending too much time with Harry Potter which might make him jealous. In fact, Harry is another man I can't stop thinking about (yeah that's right you fools, I called him a MAN!!!). I'm even thinking of having a lightning bolt tattooed on my face. Well, actually, my ankle. But I'll be damned if I can't find the rest of the tattoo anywhere (I'm going for "revolution" in Arabic)...blast! Oh man it's the greatest tattoo idea ever - some of you in the crowd will definitely be able to guess the symbols...or actually maybe all of you will cuz I've told you nearly the entire thing. Heh.

Right well it seems my time to carnival-it-up is upon me. Wish me luck folks - and while you may judge me insane for wanting to be a carnie, I refuse to believe that you've never thought about running away with the circus/carnival yourself. It could be fun! Full of daring/bright light nights and hotdog/candy floss/candy apple days...we'll see how it lives up to my vision of hilarity.

Lots more to come from the bustling (and by bustling I mean ghost) town that is Broome, Western Australia. WHOOP WHOOP! (PS Not buying me Razzles Amy? Honestly I ask you, what sense have you got woman?! I hope mom and you enjoyed them and that you feel proud of yourself!!)

Love Elaine:)

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