Sunday 17th January

fuckinggggggg pissed off. Day off today because the heat is too high, so the fire risk is too high.. sooo i woke up about 8am.. went down for breakfast and there wasnt anything set up so i presumed there was no breakfast.. so i waited for lunch at 12ish which gets brought down from the farm, we get a phone call from the boss saying there is no lunch, and to just go to a cafe instead, so yeah im meant to go to a cafe with my total of 35 cents because we dont get paid til after we leave? What a joke.

the other day he had a go at everyone saying, the advert said 60 hours a week so if i ask you to do a 12 hour day you'l do it blah blah, the advert said this, the advert said that. The advert said 3 meals a day the stupid prick.

The problem is that nobody will say anything because they know theyl probably get fired and not get paid until he feels like it, which nobody can afford. Even the 2 supervisors we live with are fuming but wont say anything. just need everyone to stand together

Saturday 9th January

NUTS NUTS NUTS NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!! soo im down in beverley nut picking! its pretty tough work.. but also really easy! basically what we do.. is walk down an isle of trees that drop nuts about the size of marbles - golf balls, n we have a stick with a rake on one end and a strange wire ball on the other that you roll across the floor and it picks the nuts up, then you just empty it into the wheelie bins, use the rake to get the hard to reach ones and move on! so yeah.. really easy.. but we get up at 4am, leave at 4.30am, start work at 5am, stop for lunch at 12, start again at 1.30pm, finish at 5.30pm, get home about 6.30pm, eat at 7pm, and then its best to go to bed before 9..and then it begins again! n everything is in highhh temperature.. the highest so far was 48 degrees.. but the day got cut short because there was a fire warning, banning all movement of vehicles on farmland, which was nice :P

soooooooo theres a good group of people here, most of them are sound and we have a good laugh! we were staying at a hotel.. so we were all chuffed, 2 person rooms, bar downstairs, pool table, table tennis, meals made for us.. seemed great! then some guys got bitten all over by bed bugs, and myyy god.. one guys blisters were like grapes on his feet, it was so sick.. and then the food was getting worse by the day.. and nobody cleaned our rooms.. or our cups n bowls from breakfast (only sinks upstairs were in toilet) so we couldnt eat in the morning unless we used yesterdays stuff or went all the way to the toilet to wash it.. at 4am ¬_¬ so we were not happy n constantly complaining to the supervisors.. even though they had to put up with it too. sooo yesterday the boss made an announcement that hes moving us to a much nicer more expensive hotel n hes covering the cost and mannnn its nice. Its 4 to a room but the beds are so comfy, the food is proper pub food, the beer garden is fantastic, there is phone signal! which there was absolutely none of in the other town. AND free internet here, hence how im writing this =] so things were definately a lot better today, everyones not as grumpy!

jees thats long.. ill try and get some pictures of stuff tomorrow if i remember my camera.. its half 9!!! should be well in bed! PEACE! x

Friday 25th December

well its no longer christmas. made a great christmas dinner but forgot to take a picture of it before we had it! silly! finding it very hard to type right now! been a bit of drama in the hostel today with 2 separate fights nearly starting between people and visitors! put everyone on edge! anja left this morning so been pretty gutted. got a job fruit picking up north on the 3rd of january so happy ill get some money and should go towards my 2nd year visa! peace out everyone have a good holiday! x

Sunday 20th December

gahhhhhhh! ok sooo been working most days this week, not nice in the heat but its money, money i havnt got because the office or the bank is fucking around so ive spent the last 3 days trying to survive with $20, which has now run out! So i currently have 60 cents in my pocket and thats all my money. soo im moving out with anja to her mates house tomorrow until christmas eve so thatl save me rent.. told the boss im not working tomorrow cause im pissed off, hungry and need to go into the bank, will be interesting to see his response!

ummmm was funny in work on friday anyway, my alarm went off at 5.30am but i fell back to sleep.. so i missed the pick up for work, but then the boss got offered more jobs so he came back and got me, so we went to a bigggg apartment block in the middle of perth to repair some potholes on the bottom floor of the underground carpark. So im there with the blower blowing all the dust out of the holes and the carpark just filled up so badly i couldnt see my feet anymore, then a guy was like ayyy u need to stop while we turn the extractor fans on cause the dust might set the fire alarms off. then just like magic.. 'WEEEEEOWMN WEEEEEEOWMN DANGER!!! EVACUATE NOW!!!' i was laughing soooo hard but the hotel people werent happy seein as 100's of residents evacuated onto the streets at 9am and the firemen arrived :P that has to be the worst alarm tho, everyone says not to panic in an emergancy but with that thing shouting DANGER! EVACUATE NOW! constantly i dont think you could stay calm!

Friday 11th December

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee, pretty tired. Fell asleep at 2am last night.. got up at 4am for work and started at 5am. didnt finish until 7.30pm! and unfortunately i dont get paid by the hour.. so that sucked majorly. Sooo yeah i tarmaced a driveway like a gypsy, did a repair on mcdonalds carpark but they gave us free food so that was safe! and then 2 pot holes in streets which didnt take long but everywhere was pretty far apart, and there was a lot of changing tools at different hire shops which took more time. Got really badly sunburnt which is notttt gooood! going to really hurt in the morning! oo and 1 of the guys managed to rip a hole out of the roof of a house with his truck, so thats goin to cost them!

anyyywayy its 2am now so time for sleepies! tattybyes

OH OH WAIT! someone got really drunk and threw up in the shower and also pooped on the floor! haaahahaha hilarity! and it was a girl! (we know who but im not going to say any names O_O)

Thursday 10th December

Ok! Did some work on saturday and sunday for a lady who sells antiques. Was just loading it in a van on saturday and then offloading it at a festival thing on the sunday! easy peasy but she payed $25 an hour! That works out as £14 an hour.. crazy australians.. but im still low on money! Not got enough for next weeks rent which is due on tuesday.. but luckily today ive just got a job for tomorrow and should continue until christmas. Ill be working for a tarmacing company just laying tarmac! sooo not the most exciting or pleasant work but it pays ok and should be quite constant for awhile. So even if its just 3 weeks work i can probably save close to $1000 out of it!

Sunday 29th November

Had a bit of a better sleep! got up about 9am and we packed up and went to Hamlin Bay which is a beach about 30mins south of margaret river. Was absolutely stunnnnning! pure white sand and clear blue water and noooobody around! We spent a few hours there and then drove up to the caves, i didnt fancy paying $20 for a tour round a cave so i had a nice sleep in the car instead! Headed back up towards perth after that and stopped in at a little town because miranda wanted to see the really long pier they have there, so we all went for a quick dip in the sea! Then we got lost a little bit but found our way home!

sooooooo thats pretty much the weekend summed up! shorter than i expected but all we were doing was laying on the beach and drinking most of the time.. i want to go travelling now!