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Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
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im georgina and am possibly going to be coming to australia as part of my degree to work in the chemical industry for a year.I was hoping for some advice on the best places to go for this and also where all you spinners are based out there.
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Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
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that shrewd and knavish sprite
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Try eating lots of wasabi I have been told it clears the sinuses and makes you grow hair on your chest...then you can shave that off and super glue it to your feet.
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I think we have hijacked this thread....
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Sweet talented nutter
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
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that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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)Aren't you glad you live in this beautiful country!
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aww medusa leave Puk alone - it's bad enough having to put up with you in real life... but on these boards as well?
hey Puk... If you manage to beat her in this topic next time i'm in Brisbane i'll buy you a drink. ;-)
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chemical attraction
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
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it really depends on what industry your after - petrochemical? mining? pharmaceutical? food? chemicals? water? energy? environmental? nuclear?
do you really have a preference, and do you have any previous experience?
it also depends how far out from the major centre you wish to be. for instance there is a polyethylene plant 6km from the heart of sydney, and there are mining facilities 600km away from the next community.
a good resource for general information on the different industries available is at www.chemlink.com.au
if students have gone to exchange to australia before, maybe someone in your department at uni can help you with how previous students went?
im a chemical engineer working in the process control and instrumentation, and have a reasonable good idea on whats around, but it depends on what your after.
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chemical attraction
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
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nobody else has been to australia from my uni thats my problem.have experience to the extent of lab experiments at a-level and uni.my year in industry is to get that experience.
i would preper places close to some sort of civilisation.6km from sydney sounds nice.
where do you work? which company?
do you have a GlaxoSmithKline out there?
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Sweet talented nutter
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
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that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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Sweet talented nutter
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
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that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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I know one of my friends went there last year and she was having lots of trouble with too much rain and some of the roads being totally washed out.
Rain? I haven't seen real rain in a long time. Every now and then it drizzles...does that count?
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Sweet talented nutter
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
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The only reason we some areas a little flooded is that there's poor drainage .
Do you have a moonfest ?
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Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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Sweet talented nutter
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
Total posts: 2615
that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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chemical attraction
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
Total posts: 1097
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chemical attraction
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
Total posts: 1097
Currently she and I are in Canada, but will be back in Oz on the 26th!
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Sweet talented nutter
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
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Does this mean i won ?
Puk does a funny looking bum dance crossed with the dance of joy .
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I'm heading your way on Saturday with my girlfriend - Perth (or 'Pwerf" as she jokingly calls it) is her home town. Just there for a holiday but I'll attempt to make it along to one of the fire spinning meets as per listed in the "Meet Others" database. Would be quite good for me 'cause I have no one to spin with in my part of the world, I'm getting very, very stagnated. Not sure how I'll handle the heat though, anyone who has been to Southland in NZ will know just how different it is here. See ya next week (hopefully)
[Wanders off to try and purchase SPF 100+ sunblock...]
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No we don't have a moonfest but we have other strange things going on around here like the Bathrobe conspiracy (only ask if you truly mean to understand this)...
Ohhh rent here is cheaper!!!!
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Ask Msquared gnor...he can fill you in and try to drag you into the bathrobe conspiracy....it's kinda scary but funny at the same time....
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