It was really weird waking up on my birthday, but thinking it wasn't actually my birthday until 10 (since I was born in England, and England is 10 hours behind Australia). I opened my gift from mum and dad, and my card from Grandma and Grandpa, and then me and Alice met Aaron, Emilie (the Swede), Emilie (the Kiwi), Bella and Dan at Fika, the Swedish café where Seb and Amanda from the hostel work, although neither of them were working when we went, as we went e...

Nothing really happened today, apart from at work, a table ordered a cocktail from me, and then forgot that they had ordered it, which made me look stupid in front of Chats and Emilie. It really annoyed me but then luckily they remembered again that they had ordered it.

I dropped my phone last night and I didn't realise it was set to two hours behind the actual time, meaning Dave had to wake me up to do the cleaning this morning. Like most Saturday mornings, it felt like it was never going to get done! Alice also woke up late, as she slept through her alarm, and she was supposed to be on reception, so in a selfish way, I appreciated the help I had from her (Dave made her help me and Matts do the cleaning/housekeeping). Didn't...

The boys that stay at this hostel don't seem to be fussed about the idea of being seen naked; the downstairs boys bathroom has a shower and toilet that is visible from the common area, when the doors are open, and I've seen boys have a wee with the door open, and this morning whilst I was cleaning, there was a boy who came out of the shower naked, into the other shower where all his clothes were. Me and Alice both worked the lunchtime shift, and Alice was supp...

Being awoken by the sun rising on the beach made waking up at my usual awakening hour a lot more bearable than when I'm waking up in a pitch black dorm room to start cleaning, although we didn't get up to see the cassowary that apparently always goes past one particular hut every single morning. Although a bit pushed for time (we had to get the car back within 24 hours) we stopped on the way back at Crystal Cascades, a series of cascades (surprisingly!). I was...