yeah cunts buying a ticket to canada for november next week. just waiting to hear back about my taxes and if im allowed back in the country again. My 2 year visa is about to run out even though I only used it for a year and was only granted in a year so hopefully thats all good, but for people that have lived in canada. Did you get your tax back. My first year apparently I owed them over a grand but the HR block accountant told me that if I never file it they will never know about it and ill get off scot free. got my T4 back for the year after a couple months ago and did a tax calculator online and it said I was going to get !200CAD back so i was stoked. But my buddy just got a letter in the mail saying he owed them 1300 bucks so a bit confused if I should just not bother filing it and see how I go. Might give an accountant in canada a call.
haha, yeah jacko, that was me doing the hotshots photog thing, haha..
anyone interested in doing it should email randy at randy@hotmail.net.au
look at
http://www.hotshots.net.au/ to see what we do..
(by the way, the bio for me on the website is wrong and not mine)
pretty much we try to focus on shooting families and shit, and groups and various events and stuff
randy@hotshots.net.au *
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sorry!
i can ask around a few places at falls for you noah....i wont be their till june though....ill email 2 friends who manage lodges up their and see if they are still looking for staff this winter for ya
Keen to go snowboarding in Japan for about a week at the end of next year (instead of going to schoolies) with a few mates. Wondering if anyone has done this and how much it would approximately cost.
me and some mates are planning on going up this year to falls , for say about 6-7 of us how much money would we need for accom.board hire and general cash spending..
cheers
i did it like last summer for 2 weeks. it cost us about 5k all up with air fares when the dollar was at its very lowest. for a week you could probs manage on 2k but you would definatly want more to be comfortable
are you going back alisterio?
im not sure if i'll be doing japan again.. i'm 50/50 on it right now..
yeah, im really not sure..
are you doing thredbo again? i'm pretty sure i will be
that would be amazing if you could do that scotty.
my email is noahroyshirley@gmail.com if you could pass that on it you would be a legend, im so stressed that im not gonna find any work.
zebra.
22:54 20/Apr
Keen to go snowboarding in Japan for about a week at the end of next year (instead of going to schoolies) with a few mates. Wondering if anyone has done this and how much it would approximately cost.
I just got back from 3 months over in japan zebra...if you want to save cash avoid going to Niseko, shit is expensive their eg $2000 season pass compared to $700 season pass elsewhere. i was in hakuba which is still an amazing place with sick terrain (the 1998 olympics were held there).Its a pretty small town surrounded by 12 resorts....
in the 3 months i was their i spent about 6 grand all up including accom and airfares, once u figure out how to live cheap in japan you can survive for ages, i only left due to my visa expiring, if not id still be their! if you have any questions im happy to help
yeah noah no dramas mate ill see whats out there
do u have a facebook noah? itd be easier contacting u on their rather than the clogging up the forums...add me if you do...scotty5402@hotmail.com
Scotty you picked up a job when you were over there right? Where abouts is hakuba? if hakuba would be cheaper id probably be looking at staying for like 2 or if possible 3 weeks. do you reckon thatd be possible with 3K?
hakuba is sick thats where i went. there is a backpackers there too which is pretty cheap.
al im 90% sure i will go back. i have a job in the schuss bar again available so im pretty sure ill be back. hot shots again? we should go for a ride this winter.
Hey alisterio
i know it was a while back but i went up to japan Niseko late Jan u said to come visit ya. we found hot shots and got told that u went away for the week to go back home for ur gf. haha. they were hanging it on a a bit. just mucking around. but yeh the place we stayed at, two older guys were there who were good freinds with that randy guy from hotshots. They got such nice photos and seemed to know all these awsome spots. i was loving strawberry fields that spot was soo mad. deff goin back up there in couple more yrs with another bunch.
El Jacko the travel lady who helped book our stuff went to Hakuba. she said it was awsome. deff would love to check that place out to if i go back.
got a bunch of photos up on flickr if anyones interested.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakedoh/and have yet to edit some footage together that i took over there. busy as with uni and work. ill hopefully post soon.
yeah eljacko, im the same; 90% sure i'll go back.. i have the job with hotshots again, so unless something amazing happens in sydney, i'll be back in thredbo
and yess! we should defintely go for a ride! should be good
curly-
hahaha those jerks at hotshots!! :P hahaha.. yeah i had to leave for 2 weeks because of something with my girlfriend at the time at home, and had to sort it out..
but yeah strawberry fields is awesome fun, lots of little hits and stuff.. but always tracked out early!
jacksons was one of my favourites, rob roy was good for shots, and moiwa was awesome too!
looks deep very nice..
i'm up in the air now about going to canada mianly due to tax reasons so Im considering japan. I really want to buy a ticket somewhere this week or next so i actually have a date to stick by so i can save in time.
alisterio and scotty any tips? like scotty said wont do niesko if its to expensive. i'm fine living in the cheap and i am really only going to be going there for the snow. I want to board as much as possible. dont care what job i have but preferably night work as thats what I did in Alberta and got 90 days up the hill. Is it hard to get a job as a lifty? do you go out drinking much and if i was to only be there over the uni break from end of november till end of feb what would you recommend. If i could find work would $4000 aud be enough to take over?
also, has anyone or does anyone know anything about obtaining a j1 visa in the US? I have heard if you are a student its not that hard?
umm a few mates of mine got J1's a few years back. i dunno what the go is etc. maybe look into it on the googles. i can ask my mate for yah. sorry i cant be much help
but yeah aprently if your a student it helps
if you could ask your friend that would be awesome.. cant find anything straight up on google just a bunch of companies that you pay to do it for you. I know if you do camp america they sponsor you and figure your j1 out but i want to do it myself
yeah dude. u can get yah workin visa etc. or then u get sponno visa or yah j1 i think. i dunno i havent done an os season yet cos im a povo cunt but ill ask my mate
Scotty you picked up a job when you were over there right? Where abouts is hakuba? if hakuba would be cheaper id probably be looking at staying for like 2 or if possible 3 weeks. do you reckon thatd be possible with 3K?
hakuba is on the west coast about a 4 hour bus from tokyo airport...
i didnt work theyre mate...but all my friends got jobs cash in hand...theirs a ton of work their. heaps of lodges and driving jobs if you wnat them.....you would last 3 weeks on 3k id say....not including airfares, id try save a bit more to be safe
yeah ketamine, it was usally REAL deep!
i can't remember what i was paying for accomodation in hakuba last time, but it wasn't that cheap from memory...
i know in niseko though, there is plenty of night work, and most jobs are cash in hand... although i'm not sure what they get paid. generally speaking, i think its about 800 yen an hour or something like that.
rent in town was like 11,000 yen (like $140) a week if you're in a shared house or similar.
i'm not sure how much the backpacker places there charge, but i think they are about $30 a night or thereabouts.
hope that helps!
anyone doing queenstown this season? i'll probably be there around early july or something like that
