Just spent my first week in Darwin, and I have to say, it's been a fairly unlucky week so far.
Upon arriving in Darwin at 11pm at night, we immediately found ourselves homeless, as the stupid morons who took our hostel booking a week previously had cleverly forgotten to write our booking down. The reception was closed when we arrived, so we were forced to spend the night in the mosquito infested tv room of the hostel.
After spending a week in the same hostel, we were informed that paying a night in advance was simply not enough 'to meet the demand of excessive bookings', and so we were chucked out. Darwin is fully booked at this time, as it is peak holiday season, so we then faced the prospective of being homeless yet again, thanks to Australian moronity. Luckily (or stupidly, if you think about the hostel), no one had actually booked into our rooms on the day we moved out, so 2 hours after we had packed up and handed in our keys, we were allowed back in our room again. I now pay two nights in advance, so hopefully they have no reason to chuck me out again.
I also found out that my Grandma died last week, which adds to my wonderful run of bad luck, which I have attributed to the fact that a bat shat on me on the day I found out.
Apparently birds are good luck, but bats aren't. Which explains why I haven't been able to find a job for over a week, even though I have canvassed everywhere I can think of, and joined 9 recruitment agencies. And why the one job I got offered today I am not taking, because I got covered in sticky red mud on the way there to fill in an application form, and slipped over in the stupid red shit on the way back, cutting my toe open. And this is on the way to a restaurant, of all places.
So no jobs for me so far, although, with my wonderful run of luck again, Ness has gotten a job from a recruitment agency but I haven't. Apparently I am unemployable in Darwin.
If I don't manage to get a job in the next couple of days I will have to harass my parents into giving me money for a flight elsewhere, as I have some very depleted funds, seeing as I am forking money out for accommodation, and getting nothing in return, and I have now cut into my 'flight home' fund, so I need to be able to earn some money before I can come home.
Fingers crossed the next time I blog I will not be unemployed Dole Scum :)
Upon arriving in Darwin at 11pm at night, we immediately found ourselves homeless, as the stupid morons who took our hostel booking a week previously had cleverly forgotten to write our booking down. The reception was closed when we arrived, so we were forced to spend the night in the mosquito infested tv room of the hostel.
After spending a week in the same hostel, we were informed that paying a night in advance was simply not enough 'to meet the demand of excessive bookings', and so we were chucked out. Darwin is fully booked at this time, as it is peak holiday season, so we then faced the prospective of being homeless yet again, thanks to Australian moronity. Luckily (or stupidly, if you think about the hostel), no one had actually booked into our rooms on the day we moved out, so 2 hours after we had packed up and handed in our keys, we were allowed back in our room again. I now pay two nights in advance, so hopefully they have no reason to chuck me out again.
I also found out that my Grandma died last week, which adds to my wonderful run of bad luck, which I have attributed to the fact that a bat shat on me on the day I found out.
Apparently birds are good luck, but bats aren't. Which explains why I haven't been able to find a job for over a week, even though I have canvassed everywhere I can think of, and joined 9 recruitment agencies. And why the one job I got offered today I am not taking, because I got covered in sticky red mud on the way there to fill in an application form, and slipped over in the stupid red shit on the way back, cutting my toe open. And this is on the way to a restaurant, of all places.
So no jobs for me so far, although, with my wonderful run of luck again, Ness has gotten a job from a recruitment agency but I haven't. Apparently I am unemployable in Darwin.
If I don't manage to get a job in the next couple of days I will have to harass my parents into giving me money for a flight elsewhere, as I have some very depleted funds, seeing as I am forking money out for accommodation, and getting nothing in return, and I have now cut into my 'flight home' fund, so I need to be able to earn some money before I can come home.
Fingers crossed the next time I blog I will not be unemployed Dole Scum :)
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