Was soo sad to say bye to the girls at 7 in the morning - had been really tempted to go with them as it sucked to hang around to meet the Travel Bugs boss and thinking I may be leaving the day after.... but now I had the boat trip to look forward to it made it worth staying! So that was really good. Was shattered so went back to sleep, was woken by the cleaners at 10 then struggled getting back to sleep so read my book and then booked my boat as I realized i really wanted to go the next day so I could leave on Tuesday if that's what I decided. Managed to get on! Went back to sleep then more people checked into my room - they were SO noisey! I'm thinking private school, all discussing their "wild time" on the Clipper (the big party boat the guys had been on) and chanting about the "Clipper Crew 2011!". There was no way they were going to let me get any more sleep so I got up - had to wait for all 6 of them to shower before I could which was annoying! Tried chatting them but apparently I "wouldn't understand" how "wild" the Clipper was as I hadn't been on it so that was that conversation over! Quite funny really, but I really, really could have done with some more sleep. Typical to have them check in when they did becasue most people check in at Airlie Beach in the evening! Once I got up and showered I headed to Travel Bugs and asked Tom about the Camira - the boat I was going on. He said it was one fo the best day trip boats! had thought it might have been a old persons one or rubbish as i wa getting on it for free so that was awesome to hear and I started to really look forward to it! had gone in to ask him if there was a Travel bug in Cairns - thoguht maybe I could get transfered there! he rang them up and was telling them how good I was which was nice to hear! They said they weren't looking for anyone but the Travel shop next door was interviewing that day. Didn't think there was much chance of them holiding out for me but I knew could always try and look for work in Cairns if I decided to move on. Went on the internet to do more research on Asia (had been doing a lot over the past few days, reallllly wanted to do it!!) but heard from Lauren that she ahd booked onto an Oz Ex type tour for 3 weeks - costing $1350!! So way out of my budget. Sucks because she said if she hadn't already booked it and I went with her she would be up for doing public transport which is what Team Travel did and they said it was ridiculously cheap. So that was that out th question, my next thing was to find out if I could fly home via Thailand and see her for 2 weeks there. Went to the camera shop to see if they had any cheap cameras (wanted a camera on Whithaven this time!!) but they were really expensive. popped into the pharmacy and found some disposables which I thought about. Went to Beaches and rang mum who said I should get one so popped back to get one then rang her back. Had a lovely chat with her as always - so glad I found out about these 1c a min calls home! So good. Went back to the hostel and made myself dinner, got chatting to a German girl called Luisa. She was really interesting, does couch surfing around Oz where she crashes on random peoples sofas. Sounds dodgy to me but she explained how it was all done online and people need to have recommendations and stuff - she raved about and I understand why she loves it (is nice to stay with people that know the area, which I learnty from staying with Steph) but I definately wouldnt do it, especially not on my own. Ate dinner with Luisa then went and sat with Alex, his mate Sharky and his girlfriend. Alex came with me back to my room so he could write in my memories book. There was a man in the bed above me who i hadn't seen before but he didn'y say anything... until Alex left. I was so tired and wanted an early night for my early start. When Alex left the guy straight away started asking if Alex was my boyfriend and about me and stuff - couldn't tell if he was just being really friendly but I felt pretty uncomfortable. Tried reading and pretending to be asleep but he kept talking to me! Went outsdie to ring Alex to see if he would come back but he was in party mode so understandably wanted to stay out and told me to ring again if it got worse. It did and i couldn't really relax so went to meet Alex but he was rpetty drunk and trying to get with a girl so I was really in the way! Wasn't in party mood myself, just wanted to sleep! Got pretty upset as there was no one else I could speak to but didn't want to go back to the room with just me and weird guy - knew the Camira Crew 2011 would be out really late! Anyway, rang home, wanted to chat to mum! Was nice to hear her voice but I was so upset, I was so tired! On the way back I weirdly bumped into Don Fletcher, a guy i work with at Waitrose! We were both in bad states, me crying and him absolutely hammered! But his girlfriend was a bit more sober and they walked me back to my room and gave me their number and put the security number in my phone which was good. Went back in the room and the guy didn't talk but I still felt really uncomfortable and couldn't sleep. It was 1am and I needed sleep so I called security. Such a good decision. Met a really lovely woman and a man who were really sympathetic and said I had totally done the right thing and shouldn't feel bad for ringing them, and they helped me move all my stuff into an empty room. Had spread out over the last week so was quite a task, especially as i was trying to be quiet!! But it was so good to be in my own room. I read for a bit as I felt really awake so didn't get to sleep until really late. Wasn't a great night - was bad luck, that I was so tired, that no one else was in the room, that the people I knew were really drunk.... just felt uncomfotable. Made me realize how safe I ahve felt the rest of my travels though. Everywhere I have been hasd felt so, so safe. I have seen no violence, never felt scared at night, not had any weird men apart from this guy and Ava. Obviously you have to be careful ut I have felt safe when travelling, theres always been people for me to talk to or be with so I haven't had to be alone at night or anything. Definately have felt safer everywhere in Oz that on a night out in Petersfield! There aren't chavs in Australia and it shows!