I had an easy cleaning shift at the hostel today. I only had 2 rooms to clean and the downstairs part of the hostel, so I was sent outside to collect litter. I had a broom handle with a nail on the bottom which would have been nice, except I seem to lack hand/eye co-ordination and after 6 or 7 stabs at a piece of litter, I usually had to give up and just pick it up with my hands.

There were a lot of pens and a few homework assignments that the kids in the school next door had thrown over the fence. I also found 3 cases of empty beer cans at the top of the hill and stung my wrists on the stinging nettle bushes growing around the empties. After bringing the garbage back, I went in search of a 'bock' (?) leaf. Im not exactly sure what it's called, but one of the girls working at the hostel said to find one of these leaves, fold it up and spit on it and rub it over the sting. The leaves only grow near the nettles however, so I went back up the hill for a second round of stinging nettles vs. wrists. I couldnt find any of the leaves, and gave up to go back to the hostel - falling down the hill on my way there.
That was my biggest adventure this week. I also have to work during dinner at the restaurant tomorrow, and I am quite nervous. Yesterday the kitchen porter didnt come to work and there were arguments between the upstairs waiting staff and the cooks about who was going to do the dishes. The cooks lost, but somehow I was duped into going upstairs and helped put away the clean ones. Perhaps it is because I bought the wrong bread and had to go back to marks and spencer's twice to get new bread and get refunds for the wrong loaves. Ah the trials of working in a restaurant. Thankfully, no more people slapping each other or asking me if their spoons are for their soup...
Ok ta ta for now!