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Date Posted: 18:10:31 05/23/03 Fri
Author: Sarah
Subject: We have jobs!

Hi everyone! Any news from back home? Me and Nomi love hearing about what's going on back in Canada(even the seemingly boring details are exciting to us)so feel from to let us know what you had for breakfast today, ect.

Nomi and I arrived in Bundaberg a couple of days ago and have found ourselves some pretty steady work at a local hostel. It's a pretty cool deal actually, our hostel arranges work for everyone staying there pretty much every day of the week. Every night a job list is posted which tells people which farm they will be working on the next day(and what insane time of the morning they will have to get up, my earliest morning so far was 4:30am!). The problem with having to get up so early is that our hostel is located directly above a really noisy bar, and the live music makes it near impossible to get to sleep some nights.

Unfortunately, while some of the jobs are for nice friendly farmers who pay a very reasonable wage of about $13.25/h, some of the jobs pay you for the amount of vegetables you pick rather than the time you put in. Yesturday Nomi and I both worked very hard picking Zucchinis(I worked a little bit longer than her but not much) but she was being paid per bucket so only earned about $30 for the day, while I was paid by the hour and earned almost $100!(before taxes) It doesn't seem fair to me that the rate of pay should be so different for the same amount of work! We've decided just to split all the money we earn 50/50, because we're both working just as hard.

The zucchini picking was very hard on our bodies the first day(particularly our backs), but hopefully we'll start to get used to it soon. I was relieved yesturday when I learned that I would be working in a chilly(chilli?) packing factory rather then in the field, but it turns out that staring at a conveyer belt for 9 hours can be just as hard! I was starting to feel the effects of motion sickness near the end of the day, it seemed like the room was moving and the conveyer belt was staying still! Mom, I don't know how you and Lynne managed to do that day after day! How long we're your shifts?

We're probably going to stay here in Bundaberg for 2-5 weeks, depending on how fast the money comes in and how fast we get bored of living here. We can always go somewhere else for work if we don't feel like staying in one place for too long. I think that these working hostels are set up over most of the country.

Hope to hear from you soon!
Love Sarah

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