Hello.
I'm Vijay Khurana.
Welcome to My Australia, the show about people from overseas having Australian experiences.
On today's show
Bhoom competes in some very strange races at a country fair,
Preeti goes rock climbing for the first time
and Priya meets the incredible animals at Taronga Zoo.
Now, we all know about horse racing but never in my life have I heard of cow racing.
Well, that's just one of the bizarre events that our first guest Bhoom is about to take
part in as she heads for the Compass Cup.
My full name is Turara Pomprap.
But in Thailand everyone been given a nickname, which my nickname is Bhoom
and Bhoom means dimple.
Volunteer work always been my passion and I really like to work for people and working
for community.
And I chose this course which is Lifestyle and Leisure
Validate - agree with what they're saying.
But are we allowed to do that?
Absolutely.
Oh, we can?
All right, sorry.
I just really want to do this course and finish and get some experience
and my wish is maybe in the future I can go back to Thailand and use this experience for
my country.
After my class I pretty much hang out in the city with my friends and we go for coffee
or go for a walk.
In Bangkok everything it's like on 24 hours which is
here you can have a very nice and relaxed and enjoy the quiet time.
Aahh ...
I really have no idea what we going because I never been to the cow racing before or any
farm racing event before
but it's gonna be like farmers, and cows, dirt and mud and something fun but scary in
the meantime.
Let's have a chat to one of the competitors in the skolling competition.
Do you understand that in the next event you have to skoll two litres of milk?
I have no idea.
Okay.
Best of luck okay.
All right, thank you.
Give her a round of applause there.
She's all the way from Thailand.
Oooh.
What am I gonna do?
On your marks,
set,
The milk skoll-off, I thought at first I can do it.
Let's keep an eye on her.
She's from Thailand.
We want to see her.
Can she do it?
She's talked herself up beautifully.
She grabs her first litre.
Let's have a look.
And so I skolled it for half a litre and then I get this, you know, headache,
freeze headache because the milk is very cold and I drink it too fast.
I don't think I can drink it any more and I couldn't do it after that
so the guy helped me to tip it all so very good guy.
Skolling it,
Yes, now run.
and oh look at her,
she's gone, she's done.
In Thailand community and culture it's quite different because back home we have lots of
events that related to our religion
and we go to temple or like temple festival but we don't do much with the fund raising.
It's more like a donation so that the temple can do things for people again.
Go!
Oh the girls are winning, only just.
I can only help you so much.
The BMX race, it was good fun but it's very hard because the rubber boots is very slippery
and the bike's very small and you have to go on the barrel.
Yes, very challenging but it's good fun.
Aussie people they love to do outdoor activities and they like a little bit of fun but they
take very seriously.
And she's done a tremendous job.
She had some trouble with her helmet.
Give her some Australian noise.
Yeah!
The only female contestant.
This is my first country event that I have ever been to so it's very interesting that,
you know, see lots of people.
They're interested in the same things and they all come out and join together.
All right, show us your muscles girls.
You've got to push this hay bale all the way down to the bag.
I learned that today Australian people they like to do outdoor activities and they have
fun.
They like to get together and ... but not just only have fun.
They also do a good cause.
So like today they raise a lot of money today just to help people in the community.
Have a look at our little visitor from Thailand.
She's been in every event and she's smashing it.
Yes, go Bhoom.
Oooh!
Oh!
The cow pat.
Oh, what was fun.
And I didn't expect to get all the squirting around, all mud and everything, but it's good
fun.
The Wobbly Cow Race, it were very good fun.
I have lady who's 78 years old ride on the top so I get really nervous coz I don't want
her to fall off.
So we going very slow.
Even though we didn't win but it means so much to her.
She drive six hours just to come here for this event.
So she's really happy and that's make her day so this make me happy too.
Big round of applause.
That's what it's all about.
Well, done.
The cow were auctioned off today and that's how the Mt Compass raise their money.
And I learned that today they raise thousands of dollars and those will go to Mt Compass
Community Club and to serve with old people in the community.
So how do we do this?
Basically we got a little marker that we put up in the air when we're bidding for the cow,
to win the cow.
Okay.
Okay, and then we've got the race after and it should be a good day.
All right.
$170.
Don't go like that, that doesn't win you anything.
At $170, at $170 here.
Four thousand five hundred.
There's a dinky-di bid.
I have a dinky-di bid.
Done, to IGA.
I thank you very much.
To ride the cows will be very interesting and you know, it's not easy and the cow's
moving and running and like you know, like a mad cow, but yeah.
It's going to be interesting and I'm looking forward to see it.
I don't understand why people do cow racing because it's very hard to control the cow
and people seem to get injured
but because Australians very country I guess they have to make fun of, you know, in another
way.
But I find that's very strange, to have a cow race.
Go Besty!
Today with the Mt Compass Cup I was sharing on cow number 3.
Her name is Besty and unfortunately, the team didn't do very well because the cow doesn't
feel like walking today
so yeah, but, we have a lot of fun.
Come on Besty.
With the cow race I find it's a bit scary but people seem like they know what they're
doing and they take it very seriously, even though they get hurt.
But they still enjoying it and they have fun.
Oh, the yellow team's on board.
The girls have done a great job.
Ooooh!
Ow.
What they have to do is that the person who has to stay on the cow and go along past the
line that whose win.
The first two, they're doing really well, the cows go along with the team very well
so they're pretty luck unlike our Besty.
So how are we going?
They were very, very strong.
Oh, yes.
They were stressed, and you try and hold 'em, nuh, you can't hold 'em.
Anyway, well done.
It was very good fun.
I have done something that I never done before like skolling the milk and, you know,
ride the bike and push the hay bale.
So it's really worth it and it's really good fun so I'm glad I come here today.
Congratulations.
Well done.
Big round of applause ladies and gentlemen.
That looks like a whole lot of fun and all for a good cause as well, raising money for
the local community.
Next up we visit a rock climbing gym.
I used to do this a whole lot, as a kid, and it is a lot of fun, especially if you're a
little bit afraid of heights because it really gets your adrenalin pumping.
Let's see how Preeti goes.