Greenpeace

I think in my last post i mentioned that I was going for the greenpeace interview. I have been working there for the past week as a fundraiser. Its not quite the same as the job I interviewed for before with the 3rd party company, but didn't take. For greenpeace, I work directly for them, so instead of 100% commision work, I get an hourly rate that gets better depending on the amount of sales that I make. The people and office as I expected were really cool and relaxed people and just about all vegetarians, I had to hide my lunches. The job basically consists of going off to a place somewhere in Sydney and standing out all day with a greenpeace T-shirt and trying to get people to sign up for donations. It is a hard job, even when you know that you are not going to make a sale you do anything you can just to get a reaction out of someone...normally for the worst. Anyway, Greenpeace expects you to raise about 8 dollars an hour for them...i made 2.60 an hour last week! so they are giving me one more day (tommorow) to prove myself, otherwise im gone. Mike and myself are trying to work out a funny way of quitting before they fire me, any input would be greatly appreciated. But, I'm sure that things will work out anyway because I have an interview tommorow as well to be a porter for a really fancy hotel. And worse comes to worse, I can just steal a cool Greenpeace T-shirt. (The picture at the top is all of the roomates. The 2 girls pulling faces are the swedes, other girl is the canadian and the 2 other guys are the damn frenchmen)

Other than the job front, not much has changed. We are both trying to save up money to spend the last month travelling up the east coast. Next weekend if the weather holds out we will go camping in the Blue mountains. They are about 2 hours away by train, and supposed to be grand canyonesque, just with a few more spiders and snakes : Surfing is still really hard, but fun. Sometimes it can be more dangerous than it looks. Mike was hit by another surfer and his leg got so swollen, I've had gallons of seawater pumped up my nose and been stung by a bluebottle jellyfish.