Well as my first post for 2009, I would like to say that I hope everyone had a great Chrissy and New Year. I did! Christmas was great lots of food and family and presents. New years was spent taking my mum out to dinner at a restaurant then my boyfriend and I bought in the new year whilst watching the beautiful girls perform! It was great. It is common for vac students to have this period off. I am working at a mine called Integra Coal formerly Camberwell Coal, in the Open Cut. I have been working on getting a Total Waste Management system happening on site, which means the company can make of the most of recycling scrap metals ect. I have also been working on writing a Rehabilitation Monitoring Plan. To date I haven’t really had a chance to work outside, I’ve really just been doing the above in the office. Hopefully I will get a chance to be outside (amongst the environment!) more in my last month, I am also hoping to go underground in that time as well. Although, I have been in a truck, for a couple of hours and I have also been able to watch some blasts go off. Both of these were firsts for me so it was great! I especially liked the chance to get out in the truck, because it gave me a chance to talk to some of the operators about what they do. Also despite the fact that I don’t have a car down here and we haven’t been provided with any transport, which is actually really difficult, in a country town, for lack of public transport, but anyway despite that, my boyfriend came down for a weekend and hired a car and we did a tour of the vineyards around here and did some wine tasting and also some cheese and chocolate tasting! This was great, it was a beautiful scenic drive and only about 20 mins out of singleton, this is something we don’t have around the mines in CQ, so I loved being able to do that on my weekend. So that’s really it for now. I will post again when I finish up out here.
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