Hobart and Devonport

Here comes a tiny diary..
After enjoying Hobart and couchsurfing with Joanna for a few days, desperately calling every fruitfarm we could find on Yelow Pages, this happened:
Wed 14th january
0830 in the morning we are woken by the phone(slept long because of an excellent barbeque with Joanna and her friends the night before). It was Spreyton Fruitfarm needing pickers, and we said yes, of course!
So we packed our bags and ran for the bus, and went to Devonport, north on Tasmania(Hobart is all the way down south), that took all day. We met a really nice girl/woman on the bus, Jennifer, and she and her dad helped us finding a hostel for the night and everything, nice people! She even invited us for a concert on Sunday..
The lady at the hostel were quite negative, and said it wasn't season, so we probably didn't have a job after all.. So we went to bed a bit down.
Thursday 15th January
Woke up quite early, and called Spreyton Frutifarm. We got a job! We just had to get there by our selves.. It was only 6 km they said, so we tried to walk. Turned out to be more like 10 km, took us two hours.. That's a loooong way to work! But we could start straight away, so we just signed and started picking cherrys, and surprisingly pleasant job! Outside all day, sunshine, all good:) And we even got a bus back home, got a lift 3 km and then took the bus the remaining 7 km, and we were so tired, but when we finally got to the hostel, it turned out we didn't have a bed, the dorm was fully booked! So our bags was just pressed into the corner. Luckily they had another room.. So we had at least a place to stay for the night.
Friday 16th.
Up early, ran to the bus, almost missed it, cause we didn't know where it left from. Got to the farm at 8:45, after the bus, we still had to walk 3 loooong km.. Worked all day, and got a lift so we made it to the last bus home that day. Got to the hostel, and had to move, they were fully booked for the weekend. Put the backpacks on and walked 2 km to another hostel. Ate dinner at Hungry Jacks(Burger King)
Saturday 17th
Had to move to another hostel, cause they were full.. Enjoyed a day off, not doing much. Went to the cinema at night. Was ok.
Sunday 18th
An amazing day!
Jennifers dad, Glen, picked us up in Devonport(This is the people who helped us on Wednesday..)and drove us to Ulverstone, where the concert was. Turns out it is Jennifer that is playing, classic piano improvisation, it might have been a world premier on that kind of concert. She is really talented and has been a pianist for 23 years! And we had no idea she was a musician! Amazing! I have never heard anything like that, she just sat down and played, picked the notes down from the air or something, it was extraordinary!
After the concert, we went home to their house, and had coffee and sandwiches. When everyone else had left, the family decided to take us on a roadtrip, so we drove around for a few hours, seeing opiumfields(yes, it is opium, but for pharmaceutical use, and we couldn't take a picutre, the fields are watched with satelite..) Gunns Plains(amazing valley view..), and Ocean road. We ended the trip in a pizza place, and had dinner, and then they drove us home. Amazing!
Monday 19th
Up early, bus, walk 3 km, work all day, ran, I said RAN to catch the bus home(last bus..) and we made it! We even made it to the bikeshop, and rented 2 bikes, so now we didn't have to stress with the bus in the morning and we could get to work on time. Great!
Tuesday 20th.
Had to get up at 0530, pack our bags(had to move hostel that day too, cause they didn't allow people to stay more than 3 nights.. I don't know why! Just a rule..), breakfast, and then 10 km bikeride to work! Got there at 7:30 in the morning! great! Worked all day, and at 4:15 pm(15 minutes before we're finished for the day) they tell us that we are fired. FIRED!!! No more job.. Not enought cherrys for all the pickers, so the backpackers got fired first.. Puh! So ironic, we had just got the bikes!
So we left the farm, and were a bit sad and everything. And then we had to get back on our bikes, 10 km, and get our bags. And then ride back towards the farm for 3 km to get to the new hostel... A long day. And so ironic, we had finally solved the transportationproblem, and found a place to stay that was closer to the farm. And then they fired us.. Hm.. Many bad words would fit in here, haha!:)
Wednesday 21st
Well, yeah, that's today, and I think maybe it is time for us to see that Devonport is not the place for us, this is not meant to be, hahaha!:) In one week we'll leave for Sydney and then Honolulu, and then Mexico.. So we should just let it go and enjoy Tasmania!(On the bike we have paid for for so many days and now not need anymore?) Hehehe!:)
Yep, that was our week, any better?
g:)