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200 Kilometers in a Tow Truck

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I was looking down at my lap eating a Ritz cracker when I heard a scream. My first thought was that my travel mate saw another skink on the road, but when I looked up I saw that we were in the bush, no longer on the gravel road. Less than a second later the new Ford stopped moving and I saw smoke coming from the blue hood. Thinking that the car would explode within seconds, as action movies would have you think, I rushed my travel mate to get out of the explosive car. When she tried to open Read more

From the Streets of Melbourne

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I’m Julie from New Jersey in the USA and I’ve been living in Australia for over 8 months on a Working Holiday Visa. As a confused senior in college, I realized I was not ready to join the ranks of nine-to-fivers  and instead, purchased a one-way ticket to Australia. For the first five months of my adventure I worked at a restaurant in Cairns. During the next leg of my journey I travelled down the east coast of Australia before arriving in Melbourne to work again. Finding a job in another country is all about trying something new and getting Read more