Today me and Dane made homemade pasta- he made normal flavour, and, because I'm strange and had wanted to try making it ever since I read one of the short stories in one of the World Book Day £1 books where the boy made banana pasta for his mum's birthday breakfast in bed, I made banana and cinnamon pasta. Jamie Oliver's brand of pasta machine isn't very good as the rolling bit you roll the pasta through first didn't run very smoothly so we didn't get it as thin...

Josh had out me on to work today, to compensate for my missed hours on Monday, and he put me on to close which I think he thought was doing me a favour, but in actual fact, I would have rather have left earlier as the snotty nose part of the cold had kicked in.

Thankfully I felt a lot better today, so was able to get through the cleaning/ double shift day. I convinced myself that drinking at the hostel with people would be a good idea, and would fight the cold, but in hindsight I think it made me feel worse. We were playing ring of fire, and I liked the rule where you had to pick the two invisible mini men off your cup (or bowl if you were unlucky enough to not get a cup in time) before you drink, and then put them back...

It was quite hard to rest properly like Josh wanted me to, as Mo, Marvin and Max (some German guys who had gone down south but then returned to Cairns) had been put in our room, and they didn't go to bed until late, but I stayed in bed as long as possible. I wanted to go visit Bex (she has moved into Barry's house), but forgot that since it was a public holiday it would be Sunday service for the buses, so I was at the bus stop way too early for the next bus. I p...

I woke up at 2.30 am, and felt absolutely awful- my glands felt really swollen and I kept lying down and feeling like I was going to be sick, but every time I went to the toilet the feeling disappeared. I couldn't sleep as I was stressing out that I was the one opening in the morning and Josh would probably still be asleep if I told him I was too ill to come in. When I used to do fairly difficult maths, I would sometimes not be able to sleep because I would try a...