Arrival in a tiny tiny village which has the most rainfall in whole Australia… Nothing going on…Lot’s of Asians in the hostel (don’t like them), share my room with 2 Italian boys (and a cockroach) who smoke and drink the whole day in the room. There is no window and no aircondition.Will try to change room! Came here to work but unfortunately no jobs available at the moment…

Shit! Can’t get worse… (it’s my 13th place I went to, maybe this number really means bad luck…)!!!

Things look better now. Start working tomorrow. This man knocked on my door last night…he got me a job at a banana farm and also at the hostel bar (never seen this man before?!?!)

The Asian invasion here still sucks. I explain: Everywhere else in Australian hostels you cook your dinner (usually just for yourself the first night), sit down on a table and within the next couple minutes someone will ask if he/she/they can sit with you…Here it’s different! The Asians don’t ask if they can sit down, they ask if they can have the chair from your table and take it away. One after another. So you sit there with 5 empty chairs around you starting to eat and within 10 minutes there’s only the chair left you sit on (if you forgot sth. in the kitchen and leave your seat only for one minute, even this chair will be gone…). But that’s ok! I don’t want to eat with them anyway! They make this noises while eating – I hate “mouth sounds” during eating! And they only eat rice – for brakfast, lunch, dinner and in between…

29.05.08: Worked the first day today. Was exhausting but good. Had to seperate good bananas from bad bananas. Started at 5:30 am. What a great job – good that I went to university. hahah!!! No, for real I like to do this kind of jobs for a while, at least then I know that it was right to go to school for so many years!

03.06.08: I’m working here for a week now. Did sorting (die Guten ins Toepfchen, die schlechten ins Kroepfchen), breaking (make little bunches out of a big bunch), packing (put the bananas in boxes for sale) and repairing the irrigation plants outsides in he fields. It’s pretty exhausting to do 8 hour of labour work if you are used to an office job, but at least here I feel like I’ve really done something at the end of the day and that is very satisfying!

If everything works out on plan I’ll stay here until the end of the month and save some money for the next travelling period…

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