Australia

March 2007- February 2008

In 2007 I started my first big adventure of my life. I went to Australia for 1 year. Back in 2007 this was much a bigger adventure than it is today. We had no smartphones, there was no Facebook. If wanted to connect to your Family and Friends you need a Internet cafè and just could wrote emails. Ok there was already skype so if there was a good connection sometimes you could see you loved ones.

But this was the good thing just be yourself nothing else, do want ever you want and no one, just yourself need to care. So I went were ever I wanted to go. I started in Sydney and just stayed the first nearly 2 month here an worked in a factory. After this I started to travel up the east coast for a few weeks, before I ended up in Surfers Paradise. Here I worked for 4 weeks as an Security in an Hostel for free accommodation. After this I went to Bundaburg, where I stayed another 5 weeks for fruit picking and packing. I had a good job because I worked in an Avocado farm, and just needed to pack the avocados.

From here I traveled up to Hayman Island / Whitsundays. It was an fascinating time there. I worked as a Chef on this resort in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef. So on my days of I went every day out for diving.

Here I met some guy's with a car and we travelled together up the rest of the east coast to Cairns and Cap Tripulation, then we went down through the Outback (just camping in the middle of nowhere) to Alice Springs and the Ayers Rock. Here I also killed my first Kangaroo with the car. We went down all the way to Adelaid and the Great Ocean Road to Melbourne. So we traveled nearly 6 weeks and 1000 of kilometers.

In Melbourne I split up with this guys and got for 6 weeks to New Zealand.

After this I ended up back in Sydney, I had no money anymore. after travelling nearly 3 month I needed some cash again. So I worked as a chef again in Sydney / Watsons Bay Hotel. I stayed another 2 month over here, and met some good friends from Hayman Island again. We also spend the Christmas time together. For the new years eve my parents visited me in Sydney and we saw the firework together at the Harbour.

On my back home after nearly one year I stopped over in Bali for 10 days, where met up with Daniela a friend of Germany, I traveled a part of New Zealand and in Sydney also with here. She just came back out of on year New Zealand...