Thursday 3rd Sept I finally moved out of the hostel and into a shared flat! It is just up behind the hostel, a 2-bed made into a 3-bed by a partition-room in the lounge, which is where I am staying. It is noisy, with walls that are paperthin and do not touch the sides, but it is only $100/wk, so I just put my earplugs in and don't complain. My new flatmates are nice and very sociable, it is a multicultural house with the guy Tim that owns it (born in UK but auss...

Saturday 29th August I had realtime, proper-job, salty tangy MARMITE with peanut butter on toast for my brekky this morning :D courtesy of the recent presence of Chloe and Andrea, and it was so damn GOOD! After spending the last month or so with a mental image of them gradually getting closer and closer, they finally arrived on Wednesday and came into Peterpans to surprise me at work, which was excellent! Unfotunately I had to work all day 10-6, then the eve 6-...

Sunday 16th August I have completely lost track of time since being in Airlie; it's strange because my time in Sydney went by so sloooowly, despite there being a million things to do there and I was so so busy most of the time. In Airlie, where my life consists of working, walking into town to go on the internet, sunbathing and lying in a hammock, the days are slipping by surprisingly fast, but without my having any track of them, so I can't figure out how long ...

Friday 7th Aug I am sad and pissed off today. I am pissed off because of work (and I'm sorry if everyone is getting bored of hearing me moan about it, but it is all I can think about at the moment!). After taking me on and giving me the impression that they would be able to give me nearly full-time hours, my shifts are getting less and less and I have now worked once in six days! Every day I turn my anger around and tell myself not to give up, that surely today ...

Wednesday 5th August My journal entries always become less interesting and less frequent as I stay longer in one place, because although I am doing things all the time, it is the same things over and over again. I can only write "I lay by the lagoon, I went on the internet and I sunbathed" so many times. What with my limited budget, there are not even any interesting nights out or meals out to write about. But now I feel like I have entered a new stag...