On the Tuesday me Tony and Matt decided to have a bit of a lads day so we started off by doing the XXXX brewery tour. The annoying part was you couldnt take any pictures so we took them all after in the free drink section. But the brewery itself was quite large and as you would expect a bit smelly at times. The tour guide wasn't the best, he even admitted to rushing parts and couldn't get the group to ask any questions which made it feel a bit more awkward. The c...

It was my third full week in Brisbane, and also the first real chance to get to know and explore the city, because unfortunately John didn't need me and Matt at work this week. After having a long weekend by monday we were getting a bit bored since the weather was terrible at the weekend and we were cooped up inside so on Monday we decided to check out Roma parkland and the suncorp stadium. Roma parkland is apparently the worlds largest subtropical garden in th...

Monday at it was back to 6am wake up calls, bit of an eventful week at work. Monday one of the lads called Tom scraped his arm on a piece of steel hanging out the concrete which sliced his skin and you could see his muscle it got that deep, had to use antispeptic cream because the steel could have gave him a nasty infection. That same day we were ripping down ceilings without hard hats and the next day continued to do the same but unfortunately for "Tetley's" (...

It's the end of my first working week. I ended up recruiting like 4 lads for this work, shame I don't get extra money for my out of hours commitment haha but there all canny lads so it's good crack at work. There's a Scottish guy called andy who's the plumber and his mate, typical kind of Australian called deano. There's James and Tom who are both nice lads who I met in the hostel, Matt Donovan and smithy who just became my room mate. First day woke up at 6.15 ...

- I went to meet John to find out about this job, only took a 15 - 20 minute walk and when I arrived it was a posh 4 1/2 star hotel. He explained that the car park on the ground floor would be getting turned into a restaurant and the room opposite a bar and on the second floor they would change the sauna into a gym. The job would take 5-6 weeks and it was full time, with pay being 22 dollars an hour which was fine by me! Accepted the job and got hired, he asked ...