ooooh yeah! The last few weeks were awesome. You get used to this life quickly. I'm starting to like Melbourne, always something to do and there is always a reason for a party. The 24th of April started with a good old BBQ at Harts because Podgy was leaving, I had loads of fun with the English, German and French blokes. Jagerbombs and loads of food. This time the foremen were working for us instead of giving us the orders all day.

The next day I woke up and did something unusual...cutting the grass and cleaning up the garden. We found things like a footballtable and more we'd never seen before. Our landlord was so happy he offered us some drinks. The drinking games started when I came back this Saturday after a long day of working. I had to climb fences and barbwire to get to the trainstation. But FIngers...dangerous game when you have to start working in an hour. And ofcourse, I lost sometimes. A bowl with beers, goon, red bull, pepper and more stuff mixed. Drink it and you will have a good start of your shift :-)

Monday it was Dutchie Family Feast at the hostel. Making 'Pepernoten' with Bente and Jitske. Well they tasted not really like pepernoten but ok, everyone loved it.

The rest of the week was constantly working. Day & Nite. TIRED! But sometimes you just go to the perfect jobs outside. Like Kellybrook Winery in the Yarra Valley...drinking 21% Ciders in the sun :-) It's a hard job...

Friday the 30th of April, our National Holiday...I took a day off and went with Molly and 35 of our backpackers to the city of Melbourne. Went to some cool places like Container Bar, Rooftop Bar and The Croft Institute. Checking all the streetart/graffiti in the alleys and AC/DC Lane. Federation Square was covered in Dutch flags. In the evening I invited all my Dutch friends and colleagues for a good old Queensdayparty in Belgian Beergarden. Surprisingly those Dutchies had something better to do then celebrating Queensday. Well after all the stories and pictures they were jealous :-) I took a group of Germans to Dutch Orange day. That was so much fun! Laughing our ass off after sucking all the helium out of the balloons, a really good atmosphere, more then 500 crazy Dutchies, orange everywere, dirty bitterballen, free vodka-jus and after stealing a bunch of wristbands all the other got in for free. But how stupid, they were out of Dutch beers after 2,5 hours!!! We went back to the hostel and made a big party in the tram. Complete with orange balloons and painted faces. The locals in the tram couln't understand what was going on. Marc couldn't believe what he saw when we came back.

Saturday the 1st of May. Get up! Salvation Army store for buying some cheap second hand clothes and tear them apart. Other ingredients of today; making fake blood, facepaint, loosing all my braincells, attack everyone and act like a zombie. Yeah it's true, it's the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle today. A free parade of zombies that walk from Carlton Gardens through the city of Melbourne to Southbank. I expected a few hundred people. The weather changed in a hot sunshiny day and more then 8000 people came dressed up like zombies. Some of them looked so real. We blocked busy Melbourne traffic. With my zombie acting skills I won tickets for a rock concert, unfortunately I have to give them away because I had to work. In the streets it was sick! Shocking all those 'living' people. I thing there were just as many photographers as zombies :-) Jumping in front of cars, attacking policemen, zombie around in the shop...everything was allowed today. The most awesome things were definately the 'Thriller' performances with Micheal's song. The 'Zombie Nation' was another popular themesong of today. The tunnelwalls under Flinders Station were covered in blood after we marched there. At Southbank we had a wonderfull afterparty with an improvised shoppingcart with big speakers, batteries and some Ipods. What a day!

Sunday the 2 of May, the 2nd Queensday celebration in Melbourne. Oh yeah, we celebrate it for 2 days herfe down under :-) This was a little bit boring. No good performances, the kroketten were out of stock in 2 hours and no beers. Today was cloudy and very cold. I waited with Michelle and Nick (who I met last Friday) in front of the BLVD Bar. We were the first ones to order beers. Later that day it became busier in the bar and we had typical Dutch conversations about soccer. Outside there was a orange hottub. Me and 4 other guys decided to jump in. I enjoyed the hot water in my orange shorts. We were the No. 1 tourist attraction in Melbourne today. Everybody took pictures of us, sitting there in the hottub in the middle of the city. Some even offered money and free food! Whahahaa. Pretty stupid that the security took my Corona because it was not allowed to drink in public... When my Harts colleagues came it was time top work and build down the tents there.

The following week only 2 days of work. The rest is for relaxing time. Can it become any crazier then last weekend?