Work has been good this week. Had more hours and the weather has been nice and hot.. although energy sapping at times. Had a bit more variety in the jobs I was given too. Aswell as the usual pepper picking, I was given the role of 'bucket boy'.. carrying the buckets of peppers that everyone had been picking back to the truck. Again, not exciting, but nice to have a change and a rest from bending over all day. We were asked to weed the pepper paddocks on Friday ...

This past week at work has been much easier than the previous one.. on every level. My body appears to have adapted to the work I'm doing without it aching anymore, the weather has been cooler, the hours shorter, and still had two days off.. Wednesday and today. I was given some extra work on Friday other than pepper picking.. lifting tomato buckets onto the back of a truck. Not exciting at all but it was good to have a change and it's much easier work. Every m...

Wednesday was another back breaker but at least it wasn't as hot as the previous couple of days. Pizza delivery for tea.. lovely! Thursday was a much better day.. think my body has started to adapt to all the stress and strains I'm putting on it. Random thunderstorms have been hitting Stanthorpe so it's been much cooler, wetter, and easier to work under. A massive storm hit us the other night with a bolt of lightening almost striking our hostel.. the loudest thu...

Went to catch some rays in the local park with my roommates on Sunday afternoon, followed by a BBQ by the river. Tried to have an early night ready for the 5am start in the morning but didn't get to sleep till after midnight. Surprisingly I managed to get up without a problem.. so i had my breakfast and jumped on the hostel bus which taxied us to the farm. Was a bit of a surprise when we arrived at the farm.. we were picking green peppers, not apples! So that m...

Arrived in Stanthorpe just before 1pm on Saturday after meeting two lads from the UK on the bus who were heading there for the same reason as I was.. and it turns out they had done the Ozintro week just a few weeks after I had finished mine.. so we had plenty to talk about. Checked in at the Backpackers of Queensland working hostel where we were placed in a room with three other girls from the UK. The rooms are very clean and spacious, and everyone is really sou...