We were supposed to be waking up at 7.30 to Skype Caitlyn, but I checked Facebook and she wanted to change it to Thursday, so I think we both enjoyed the extra little lie in. All I have to eat at the moment is rice, and various things to mix it with, and because I know I will soon have to throw nearly a whole bag away to go on the flight down to Melbourne, I don't want to buy anything else, so breakfast today was rice and hummus. We got the bus into town, where...

Today was a pretty boring day- I woke up early and updated my CV. Then me and Alice spent hours making a couch surfing profile (Couch surfing is a website in which people offer their couch, or spare bed, to sleep on, so that they can then go on to stay on someone else's couch, and get to interact with travellers from their own homes). You had to write sections such as 'current mission', interests, couch surfing experiences, life philosophy, etc and then it also h...

This morning Alice asked me what I'd do if she went down to Melbourne and she told me it was amazing and there was loads of jobs there which upturned all my decisions about staying in Surfer's. I knew I'd enjoy Melbourne more, but it felt like a bit of a risk to leave a job and house here, especially as both were new. Once the idea was in my head though, I knew I'd regret not going, and so we're going to go to Byron Bay then fly down. Accommodation is a lot cheap...

I got up early so that I could view a room share, because the girl started work at 10.30. The house is nice, but I would be sharing the room with a boy when I'd prefer not to, and the house is a bit too centrally located (I'm enjoying having to walk lots at the moment). I picked up my laptop and started writing up the 3 weeks worth of my blog I'd handwritten. Alice has decided to try and find a care agency job elsewhere in our spare week before the new Hogs Brea...

I wanted to get up quite early today as I thought it would be a mini mission to get my laptop sorted out- I had seen a few more places that looked like they repaired computers on the way back from Mermaid Beach, and thought I should check out their prices, and also see how much new ones would be from JB HiFi in Pacific Fair shopping centre (near Broadbeach). However when I went in to get my laptop, I asked them if they had any refurbished laptops at the moment. T...