Today was the first day of our 'Dine Hard' promotion- a steak with a starter or desert for $22.90, and you get entered into a competition to win a ticket to see the new Die Hard film. I had to wear a name badge that said Willis on it- because Bruce Willis is in the films. Allen- the franchisee- was around, but was doing really weird unhelpful things like telling the kitchen a girl on one of my tables was allergic to onions (so I assumed she had already told him...

It was nice to not have to do any cleaning today, but I still did a double shift at Hogs. There was quite a large group of us who went to the Woolshed, but we arrived too late to claim our free pizza.

Stacey (the manager) is leaving the hostel tomorrow, and so was quite stress compared to her usual friendly self. She came into the kitchen whilst me and Bex were making our breakfast and said "right girls, its 8.30 time to start work"- doesn't she know never, ever to come between me and the food I'm in entitled to? (We had started a few minutes early so I felt entirely justified to carry on eating it). She made me take out all the pots and pans and clean the s...

I had trouble getting to sleep last night- I blame the coffee that Eddie made me at 9 pm! I think the lack of sleep affected my shower cleaning skills as Stacey asked Bex to go over the showers I cleaned- I'm a bit offended actually because it's not like I'm slacking like some of the other Work For Accommodation staff. I went into work early so that I could practise making coffees for the staff. I also served two ladies a flat white each- I filled one cup up t...

Bex served the bacon and eggs this morning, and I supplemented mine with another 2 slices of toast and peanut butter (going to have a repeat of India and make the most of free breakfast by trying to skip out lunch). After I finished cleaning (which me and roommate Jade finished way ahead of schedule) we then went to the camera shop to get me something to put my pictures onto the computer (the one we got in India doesn't fit XD cards), although they didn't have ...