For the JOBS I have to say I was really lucky again! On my first day here in the hostel i got already woken up to jump in for somebody sick - a day in the TOMATO PACKING HOUSE. New job for me, and just for the day. But easy to get into the working life again. And basicly the same than other packhouses I´ve worked in - just differnet fruit :)
   
And after the weekend I got my PERMANENT JOB - PICKING CHERRY TOMATOES. That was really lucky again. It is one of the nicest farms I´ve ever worked on. Everybody is nice, the farmers looks good after everything, no screaming or shouting to hurry up like I had other places. And we get paid per hour (minimumwage, 20$). 8 hours a day, monday till friday, 7am-3:30pm. Thats an easy life I would say :). And the work anyway is pretty easy. Of course it can rain, the bushes can be deep and you´re on your knees all day, we had couple of cold winter mornings (8°C the first 2 hours, but lunchtime usualy 15°C - in the winter!). Except of that, just pick your tomatoes into the buckets. Somedays good lines with lots of big ones, somedays just tidying up halfdead roads.
Some of us counted once! On a good day there are around 400 tomatoes in a bucket, around 25 buckets, makes 10.000 tomatoes a day, 50.000 cherry tomatoes a week!!!!!! each person of us!!!!!!!

Just the DAYLY ROUTINE was maybe not that exciting - but what do you expect. Every day same WORK, picking cherry tomatoes (nearly everybody in the hostel works in picking and packing - zuccini, ginger, cucumber, tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, sweet potato, squash,...). Leaving in the morning between 5-9am the most, coming back everybody between 4-7pm. Shower, cooking, and then just sitting a bit around RELAXING and talking. Early bed for another early start the next morning. Routines like tuesday pizza, fish and chips next door, thursday QUIZNIGHT, hostelbus to the supermarket and so on... But of course, not every day is just like that - we're backpackers, don't forgett about that. There are always people leaving in rooms, new ones are coming, bithdays, lots of chatting and rumours going on all the time.. And if it came to the WEEKEND or any day off - there where enough activities going on in the pub around the corner or at the park or any other place in the city to PARTY! :) And legendar are our once-a-months hostelpartys. The only time we are allowed to have alcohol in the room, crazy nights I can tell you! Some people life from partying all weekend, some go out to the beach, town, river, zoo, shopping, walking around... There are a few ways to spend freetime :)

400km and 9 hours by bus north of Brisbane is Bundaberg. A town which is famous for the local brewed rum, the own ginger beer and the vegetable fields all around town. Not to forgett the huge sugar cane industry, probably the biggest suplier for whole Australia. Yeah, and to be honest thats all Bundaberg has.
Bundaberg is not a bit tourist attraction. It is the perfect city to life and work in. In the center you find all the usual shops, shoping cencters, sunday farmers market, the center has a few nicer old buildings like churches or a few cityhouses, some parks, the botanical garden, swimming pool, a little zoo with emus and the river which has some beautiful sunsets. Days of are good for a visit at the rum factory or the Hummok lookout all over the sugarcanefields.
Nightlife has (at least for me) enough possiblilities with couple of clubs, few different bars, and lots of drunken backpackers :)
And the beach is not tooo far away, 20 min carride and there is Bagara beach with all its bbq, shops..., there is Elliot Heads a bit more quiete, there is Moore Parks Sandbeach, enough to enjoy the warm wintersun - and believe me, I get even now on the field regulary sunburnd, it is sunny!