Leaving oz It's been 4 months now that I've worked at chill and its been an unreal experience, apart from meeting awesome people and friends for life, some crazy experiences working at the hostel and the other side to backpacker life looking after the drunk and crazy people. Too many stories to tell about working there but I won't go into it, mostly because its quite foul but apart from that i had a great time working with the other staff. Living in that staff ...

I arrived back at chill on the Thursday night, a day after I was told I had the job. It was a bit surreal coming back to Brisbane because its the first place I've returned to in oz and I knew a lot of people before I left but when I first arrived there were so many new faces and people I knew had moved on so it was nice being back at the same hostel but it felt like starting out all over again almost in terms of meeting people. The next day I talked to sander wh...

New Year's Eve signalled the end of mine and Tony's stay at chill and it was actually a bit depressing having being there for 2 months myself and for tony the only real place he's stayed at over in oz. fortunately enough we were allowed to use the facilities for the rest of the day, so after quickly doing some errands in town we came back and started getting ready for the night. Took advantage of the movie room one last time then finally shaved that stupid haircu...

It was that time of year where the whole family get together, stay indoors during the cold winter and have a roast dinner. But for the first time in my life I wasn't there, I was in the land down under. The build up was just as unusual as the actual day here. Chilling at the lagoon in boiling temperatures while Christmas carols were blaring out of the public speakers. Doing your shopping in a quiet supermarket and the whole way the festivities are played down a...

Since being in Brisbane and finding out that the sports stadium is literally 5 minutes from the hostel we decided to watch a game of football to see just how bad the quality was, I heard it was nothin like the football in England so I wasn't expecting much. We chose a match in which former England and premiership regular emile heskey would be included. He player ironically for the Newcastle jets, whose away strip is basically the real Newcastle home strip, Copy...