Our new room is pitch black, and so it was lucky that I decided to get dressed in my bunk bed (which wasn't the most logical thing to do as I can't sit up without hitting my head) because then my eyes could get accustomed to the fact that there was someone extra sleeping in our room on an air bed. It turned out it was Annie, a girl who is causing a bit of a fuss about moving to the Beach House from the Reef. The other day she was unnecessarily panicking about n...

I'm starting to get itchy feet to do something other than just hang around at the hostel/ go to the lagoon, and so we've made plans to go to Kuranda- a village in the rainforest- on Saturday. The markets are famous, and there's a koala park where you can get a photo cuddling one, and somewhere nearby there's a waterfall. I'm so excited for this! At work some bodybuilder type men managed to eat a starter, a mega cut steak and two deserts each! Apparently it w...

The new events manager cooking the bacon and eggs this morning is no Bex- he seems a bit clueless and cooks single eggs at a time, despite the fact there's a huge queue of people waiting to be served. Also on Saturday when he was supposed to be serving the pancakes, apparently the guests kind of overrun him and took over, and he didn't try and regain control of the frying pan. Oh and he buys smooth peanut butter not crunchy! We moved our things from room 12 to...

Managed to do all the cleaning this morning, but still took an extra hour to do so. I felt very inspired to do extra work tomorrow (I'm not cleaning tomorrow, and thought I wasn't working lunchtime at Hogs, but then Josh was understaffed and so put me on) cleaning the bathroom doors. What a shame I'm now working. Whilst researching and writing up about my crunchy persimmons, I felt the urge to go back to the fruit and veg market to try and find a black sapote ...

Now that Stacey has left, and Dave, the manager, is in charge, there have been a lot of unpopular changes. People have been dropped as work for accommodation staff, some people have had to move to the Beach House (another of his hostels, and where the free BBQ is held), we're supposed to be moving rooms on Monday, and the worst one for me and Bex is that there is no longer 2 morning cleaning staff on duty (i.e. one person is supposed to now do the jobs that 2 d...