On the Road Again!

Alright so it grew on me, Karumba actually grew on me.  The people, the dry landscape, the heat, the fishermans cologne it all grew on me and I fell in love with Karumba.  The only thing I was struggling with was the job, I never settled into it.  I tried but even to pretend I enjoyed it I couldn't do.   They changed the rules on us and worked against our RSA and the old guys that sat at the bar everyday were C ____s (I won't write it because I know mom doesn't like it).   To top that off Steve and Yvonne were acting really wierd towards me and everytime she spoke to me she was condescending; like I wasn't capable of doing my job properly.  Every thing I did she spoke to me like I was a child and I was getting really frustrated.  I don't care if I am a backpacker and we get the shitty end of the deal I am still a person and you don't talk to me like that.
By last Saturday I had enough,  I was ready to quit but I actually had a feeling I was getting fired.  The schedule came out on Sunday,  the other girls have 45 hours and I barley had 35, that was it, my last straw after my shift on Sunday I was going to give her my notice.
"Emmie can I talk to you"  says Yvonne as I was signing out and just about to ask her if I could talk to her.   She pulls me into the office and I knew before we even got in there what it was about.  She said she had complaints and then blamed me for losing them business!!!!  She said that people had stopped going there beccause of me.  "I was coming to tell you that I was leaving"  I told her "Well good then you can leave on Tuesday with the rest of them"  and that was it.   I had less then 48 hours to pack, get a bus ticked (which I had to pay for)  and find myself a ride there.  I went online and talked to one of my mates from the hostel in Cairns.  He booked me in for the next night and was picking me up at the station when I arrived.
"What do you mean you are leaving?!?"  asked one of the locals "I got sacked!  She told me I lost them business.  That people stopped coming here because of me."  " What people?  it hasn't changed since you got here.   Did you get a warning or .  anything?"  "Nope, just less then 48 hours to leave!"  "What a bitch.  YOu know that people stopped coming here because of her not you."  " I know but it's ok, they obviously weren't happy with me and I wasn't with them so it is for the best."  The locals were really surprised and some very unimpressed.  They couldn't believe I got sacked, even the ones I gave grief to and kicked out said they couldn't believe it.  The next day the new girl to replace me arrived.  They had already put an add through the agency and hired someone.  They saved their asses before they threw me out on mine.  CUNT's (sorry mom).
I didn't realize how much I loved Karumba until I was on the bus.   You don't just become family with the staff, its the locals as well you become part of their community and their culture therefore they becomes part of your family.  I was feeling Karumba sick on my way to Cairns.   Me leaving had happened so fast that I really didn't even have time to think about it.  I was stoked to get back to Cairns but sad to leave my little Karumbian world.  
The bus trip was long though there were four of us.  Liz was off to Fiji and Becky and Luke are heading home, plus I had thrown my back out in the morning so 11 hours on the Greyhound with a sore back is not fun.  The closer we got to Cairns we got the weirder I felt.  It was so wierd to get back into  "civilization" and plus how green it is.  Everything is so dry in Karumba and so green here it felt wierd to actually see some colour.
It has felt so good to get back to Cairns.  I honestly feel like I am home again.  I missed it so much here.   Matthew  has come by the hostel for drinks and we have been talking about doing Asia together.   I have seen other friends that I met last time I was here and to be honest I don't want to leave.  Cairns has been my favourite place.  Yesterday heaps of us from the hostel went down to the lagoon all day and just hung out in the sun, listened to music and went swimming.  It was such a wicked day, one of the best I have ahd in a long time.  I just want to stay and live at the lagoon everyday,  but...lucky me...I got a job lol.
One of the guys (Jarrett) who used to work here was planning on heading down to Brisbane to find some work.   I on the other hand wanted to do some excursions and head down and hopefully find some work in about a month.  There was a job posting in the hostel and we applied together.  We got the job, we leave tonight at midnight for an 11 hour bus trip haha love those.
Whats the job you ask.  Working at a Club Med Resort in the Witsunday Islands.  It's gonna be great.  I'm not overly excited because I just came back from work but I would be stupid to give this up, it's money and it's only a three week contract. Apparantly they had heaps of replys but they only had 3 spots available,  so awesome.   It's gonna be so amazing out there!  Everything in life happens for a reason.  If I hadn't of gotten fired I wouldn't have had this opportunity. On the road again!