'Food Girl' has left the building

After 9 weeks, 5 pairs of black shoes and thousands of succesfully ordered meals my time at P.J O'Briens has come to an end. My role as 'food girl' (as I was commonly known around town, which is ironic really considering how much I love food) was hard work but also very rewarding, not least due to the free food from the boys in the kitchen, but also the extra dollars earnt dancing on the bar for their bar crawl competitions. I have learnt an array of new skills at P.J's including how to pour a pint of Guinness (not a perfect one, I'm sure) and how to hold myself upside down on a pole. This skill is even more impressive considering the amount of chips, pizza, pies and other fatty food I have consumed over the past 2 months. I have a permanent food baby that I have named P.J after his place of conception. I will miss every one of my work colleagues, even the temperamental head chef, and definitely my fantastic room mates from my hostel. Moving on has been an exciting prospect but the thought of never returning to Cairns, my home away from home, brought a tear to my eye.

The last few weeks have been hectic to say the least, visiting waterfalls and going for posh meals for my birthday, on my days off, in between lots of hectic shifts on the food counter. It's amazing how many ways there are to order your food; Americans want to 'grab' it, Europeans will 'take' it and Asians 'want steak and chip' - not realising that I then needed to ask three more questions for each steak they wanted. In my last week at work I managed to save over $800 working pretty much every waking hour 7 days in a row.

But all the hard work is paying off now, having already used most of my earnings to book an amazing trip down the east coast including my recent skydive which I am still buzzing from. In the next month I will be a complete tourist once again, seeing the main sites of The Whitsundays, Fraser Island, Byron Bay, Sydney, Melbourne and Great Ocean Road. It is all go over here and I better get going, got a sailing boat to catch!

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