I dropped my phone last night and I didn't realise it was set to two hours behind the actual time, meaning Dave had to wake me up to do the cleaning this morning. Like most Saturday mornings, it felt like it was never going to get done! Alice also woke up late, as she slept through her alarm, and she was supposed to be on reception, so in a selfish way, I appreciated the help I had from her (Dave made her help me and Matts do the cleaning/housekeeping). Didn't...

The boys that stay at this hostel don't seem to be fussed about the idea of being seen naked; the downstairs boys bathroom has a shower and toilet that is visible from the common area, when the doors are open, and I've seen boys have a wee with the door open, and this morning whilst I was cleaning, there was a boy who came out of the shower naked, into the other shower where all his clothes were. Me and Alice both worked the lunchtime shift, and Alice was supp...

Being awoken by the sun rising on the beach made waking up at my usual awakening hour a lot more bearable than when I'm waking up in a pitch black dorm room to start cleaning, although we didn't get up to see the cassowary that apparently always goes past one particular hut every single morning. Although a bit pushed for time (we had to get the car back within 24 hours) we stopped on the way back at Crystal Cascades, a series of cascades (surprisingly!). I was...

There were 7 of us in total who came to Cape Tribulation- me, Adam, Jake, Yahn (a German; I'm sure that's not how you spell it, but that's how its pronounced) Tom, Charlie and Natalie (all from Bedford, although Tom and Charlie didn't know Natalie until they met in Melbourne). We had a stop at one of the lookouts, and then stopped by Smithfield shopping centre for supplies. Jake kind of took control of getting the food, and didn't ask everyone whether it was OK...

It's changed at work so that you don't need to close and then do an evening shift to get a free meal, now you just have to do a split shift, but you can only choose from the $9.90 menu- a slight problem for Alice given that there's no veggie option! She was looking after half a section today all by herself; the other half was being waited on by Daniel, (usually the barman), because Josh wants him to be able to do both. I went to Cairns Central to buy some fac...