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...

There are a lot of French people staying at the hostel at the moment and I thought it was rather amusing that this morning I was woken up to the sound of an accordion being played whilst a French girl sang- very stereotypical. Tonight I was on pass- making sure the food looks OK, and the correct plates are sent to the right table, which is normally quite an easy job, but tonight was the first night where I had done it and it was busy- it's not so easy then!

There was a night on at the Green Ant Cantina - a Mexican restaurant behind Cairns Central- which me, Dan and Alice had been looking forward to for weeks now because it was playing Reggae, and Drum 'n' Bass, but by the time I got out from work (I closed) and had a few drinks, there wouldn't have been much point in going as it closed at 12, so Bella, Brenton, Dan and his mates (who were already out) tried to get into the new night at a club called Mad Cow but that...