Managed to do all the cleaning this morning, but still took an extra hour to do so. I felt very inspired to do extra work tomorrow (I'm not cleaning tomorrow, and thought I wasn't working lunchtime at Hogs, but then Josh was understaffed and so put me on) cleaning the bathroom doors. What a shame I'm now working. Whilst researching and writing up about my crunchy persimmons, I felt the urge to go back to the fruit and veg market to try and find a black sapote ...

Now that Stacey has left, and Dave, the manager, is in charge, there have been a lot of unpopular changes. People have been dropped as work for accommodation staff, some people have had to move to the Beach House (another of his hostels, and where the free BBQ is held), we're supposed to be moving rooms on Monday, and the worst one for me and Bex is that there is no longer 2 morning cleaning staff on duty (i.e. one person is supposed to now do the jobs that 2 d...

Today was the first day of our 'Dine Hard' promotion- a steak with a starter or desert for $22.90, and you get entered into a competition to win a ticket to see the new Die Hard film. I had to wear a name badge that said Willis on it- because Bruce Willis is in the films. Allen- the franchisee- was around, but was doing really weird unhelpful things like telling the kitchen a girl on one of my tables was allergic to onions (so I assumed she had already told him...

It was nice to not have to do any cleaning today, but I still did a double shift at Hogs. There was quite a large group of us who went to the Woolshed, but we arrived too late to claim our free pizza.

Stacey (the manager) is leaving the hostel tomorrow, and so was quite stress compared to her usual friendly self. She came into the kitchen whilst me and Bex were making our breakfast and said "right girls, its 8.30 time to start work"- doesn't she know never, ever to come between me and the food I'm in entitled to? (We had started a few minutes early so I felt entirely justified to carry on eating it). She made me take out all the pots and pans and clean the s...