hey guys, hows it going back home? whats the weather like you had any more snow? im really missing the cold!!! it really doesnt seem like christmas over here with it being so hot!! well ill fill you in on what ive been up to over the past week. it'll prob be shorter than normal cause i dont want to bore you with my everyday stuff!!

well i was up early on 28/11/07 to get on my bus to Innisfail!! we left about 7.30am and on the way we stopped off at a place called the boulders for a short forest walk which was nice to strech my legs as the bus was really small, we then went to a crocodile farm say loads of crocs and got to feed so kangaroos and wallabys which was cool. i then got dropped off and Rick the owner of the hostel came and picked me up. he took me about 1 min round the courner to the hostel!!! if id known where i was i would have walked!! i was put in a room with three corean girls, they were really nice and rick got me a job for the following day. so i spent most to the time sleeping and i popped out to get some food, but that was about it!!

the following day 29/11/07 i got up at 4.50am as i had to be ready to leave ar 5.30am!! oh my god i was tried! i started work at 6.30am on a banana farm!! the farmer is misreable and i dont like him much but the guys i was working with were nice. i finished work at 3.30pm thank god!! i was so tired!! i didn't do anything in the evening apart from make some food and then i went to bed i had to be up early again the next day, but luckly not that early!!

fridays 30/11/07are great because you only work till 12.30pm but i was still tired so i slept from 2.00pm till about 9.00pm then i went out to the pub with the girls from drinks. i tryed to get into a pub/club but they wouldn't let me in cause i was wearing thongs (flip flops) i left the girls to go in and have a good time and i went back to the hostel. friday and saturday nights are party nights at the hostel and the lads were making so much noice outside our room that it was really hard to sleep. i had to put my ipob in to drown out there noice!! oh well.

the next day 1/12/07 i slept in till 12.00pm to catch up on my lack of sleep from the night before!! i went shopping with the girls from my dorm and then spent the rest of the day watching telly and trying to sleep again at about 11.00pm and not getting much sleep again!!!

sunday 2/12/07 rick had organised an outing to the boulders for swimming and a bbq we left at 9.30am and it was a really good day, Danny drove us there and he's english so we had a bit of a chat which was nice and id finally met someone other than my room mates!! when we got there i started taking to some english girls who were really nice and loads of other people. i said id drive back if danny wanted a few drinks it was smaller than a mini bus but i still drove 8, 9 including me bact to the hostel!!! it was so strange as i have driven for 2 months and i was so nervous!!! the english girls were in a dorm at the end of the coridoor from me and had there own kitchin!! one of the girls was leaving the next day for brisbane and so the other girls asked if i wanted to move in. also i was moving out of my room anyway as it had bedbugs and i was getting eated to death!!! so i jumped at the chance to move in with them.

after work the next day 3/12/07 i moved into my new room and its been good, the girls are party animals but its been fun. we went out to the soup kitchin for dinner, you get free soup and bread and pudding was really nice but it shuts after the 17th dec and doesnt reopen till after feb!!!

tue 4/12/07 was work then cheap pizza nite!! but i had to wait 40 mins for my pizza i was starving!!!

wed 5/12/07 again work!! then i went to aqua arobics with the girls wich was good but again that was the last one before christmas and doesnt reopen till feb!! and i completed my frist week at work!!

thurs 6/12/07 i did stringing at work which is tying the trees together to stop them falling over from the weight of the bananas its hard work and really hurts your hands, also i got a little sunburnt but it ok now!! in the evening jenny cooked for us as it was Jo's last night before she left on friday and we had a bit of a party too. it was a good night.

yestaday 7/12/07 i went work till 12.30pm then when i got back i went to the pool with jen which was nice, then i cooked dinner and had an early night everyone else was partying because more people left today but i was to tired. the problem now is that everyones leaving for christmas the two girls in my dorm leave next week aswell!! no ones is staying here for christmas except me!! ive decided to stay till the end of feb and the fly to perth to see my cousin Lucy and Joe for a few weeks then fly back and carry on down the east coast. im also thinking that i may extend and stay here till the end of may instead of leaving mid april as after here ill still have 4 weeks of fruit picking to complete and it will be such a rush otherwise. but i should still be back around the same time as im going to shorten new zealand and america to 6 weeks each instead of 8 weeks each. anyway i think thats it from me and unless anything interesting happens then this will prob be my last blog for a while!! i hope you all have a great christmas and new year and ill be thinking of you.

take care

merry christmas ;)

Ke xx