The Irish man is leaving for Melbourn!

Like I told u guys in my previous blogs, staying in Perth for the Irish guy is just a step of his world tour, as I talked with him, it is quite to find a proper job in Ireland, even for local Irish, because that EU country is in great recession. However, this provides him the chance to see the rest of the world and also can save a sum of money. He will leave Perth in early June, the next station is Melbourn, hope his trip and his future will be shiny.  

My housemate is back from China !

As I mentioned to u everybody, I have a housemate who is from Ireland. Although he is speaking a little bit different English, he is a quite nice guy. He is living a quite different way with us. He came to Australia last Christmas, before he arrived here, he has spent a month in Thailand and met his girlfriend who is American in Bankok. He is working in Australia just for his expenses of travelling the world. Now the first destination which is China is done. By chatting with him, he told me the next stop would be Canada and the US. And he also told me a new backpacking way which is called Couchsurfing. Ive never heard of it, but sounds interesting. Haha, you guys can know more about that from search engine, Im a learner anyway. If u get some comments on this kind of travelling. Do not hesitate to share with me. Im thinking of if we have that kind of hotels or motels in China.

some comments about my 2nd semester

So far, I have already got used to the way of studying here. These days I am feeling very busy but significative. Now Im feeling that I am learning business, not only the theory. I like the way what lecturers use here to inspire us with creative business ideas. They also invite several guest lectureres to show us their real experiences at workplace. You know my friends, Chinese business is based on relationship, good relationship between each other is the foundation of everything. And we thought Western people are doing business based on principle. Actually, they treat relationship as important as us. But a little different from us, they begin to build good relationship before they have an intention to do business with the people involved. Think about this, is it a easier way than start dealing with relationship during business?

continue travelling in Margaret River

After busy days in university, I will continue to show u around the WA. As I said before, although every student only got 4 units for each semester which seems less stressful, because of language and different academic background, the university life has been very busy for me. However, after experiencing the first semester, I am not worrying about  university life, including presentation, essay and test. I hope I have already got used to this kind of life. Well, Let's continue the travel. You guys can search from the internet that Margaret River is famous for wine and winery. See the pic on the top. Everywhere is like this. Because we have to drive back to Perth on that day, so we didnt have a glass of wine in the beautiful winery. Through talking the staff in the winery, I knew that in each season of grape paciking, they will hire many workers with quite comparative hourly rates. And they also provide the workers meals and accommodation. So every grape picking season, the winery attracts many people especially backpakers. Try to image, my dear friends, earning more money in such beautiful winery without spending living expenses for one or two months, then keep backpacking with enough money. Try to think about can we go like this way in China? Earn from travelling and afford the travelling. Living in a small peaceful town in Southwest China or wherever, will you do that like the backpackers in Australia? If you are interested in working for a Western Australian winery in Autumn, I can provide you more information. My suggestion is try to earn living expenses during your travelling. This is another way to know more about the local culture and people. What do you think?

Third day in South-west of WA

After leaving Albany, I begun to miss this lovely town. Quiet, Peace and clean are the impressions what Albany brought to me. 3rd of Jan was almost spent on the way to Augusta. On the way, we went to visit the tree top walk, which was very scary. Walk 30 meters over the ground, even can touch the branches of the trees. And most of the trees in this National Park are hundreds years old. Then move on to the destination. On the way, we dropped on a small town called Denmark, the same name with the EU country. Ha. that place was a little bit different from WA where is dry and full of yellow grass. Denmark is really like Europe. Green grass, streams and cows everywhere. Here is the paradise for backpackers. You can drive your wagon into the bush, and spend a beautiful afternoon in forest. Nearly in the evening we arrived at Augusta and we lived in Augusta Motel. Opposite the motel, there is a pub, we roasted steak by ourself in the pub and watch the country show( dancing and country music) with a glass of wine.

Second Day in Albany

2nd was fabulous, we visited natural bridge  and the gap in the morning. However, the weather turned  his face into cloudy and started to rain soon. We had to go back to the backpackers, there we had a chance to chat with the owner. He graduated at UWA as well, hahaha, and his wife was still studying there. I know it was difficult to live apart for couple. He treated his customers like real friends, he gave us visitor maps and showed everywhere that be valuable to visit. In that afternoon, I talked with some of the backpackers who lived here, most of them were from Europe and which is valuable to be mentioned is that most of them have got a wagon!! that means they can travel around the region without booking a living place. What a great life. Keep driving until tired, settle in the bush, my friends, try to image what a beautiful life they have. Cause the population in Australia wspecially in WA is very small, nearly cant see a person for driving couple of minutes. But what I want to introduce is that the style of this kind of travelling. If Chinese young people can extend this mode, it would be great to bring benefits to the rural areas and also will promote the tourism in those areas.

First day in Albany.

We left Perth in the early morning on 1st of Jan. It is like we were chasing the sun in the first day of 2011, what a wonderful beginning of the trip: only several cars in the street, the sun was not strong and the  breeze was touching our faces. See the picture on the top. Haha. You all know that in Australia, we drive the opposite way with China. Thats a little bit dangerous if you dont get use to drive here. And another suggestion, do not drive too fast in the high way even though you cant see any cars, the Kangaroos would jump out at any time. Well, I will show you guys if you have time travel to Perth. We arrived at Albany 5 hours later which was just afternoon, we had spent a beautiful afternoon in the beach. In the evening, we went to the backpackers which we have booked online. What surprised me was that many travellers from Europe had settled here for around 1 month! They even worked for the backpackers or motels for the expense and then rent. They just relax their lives here and after that move to another city, continue the similar life. Interesting right? Try to think about if this works in China, should be more attactive and valuable to you guys.