Surat is where it's at! (not)

Greetings from the thriving metropolis of Surat, Queensland! I now live in the Warroo Shire hall (google it) in the middle of a town of 436 people. I sleep right underneath the stage in my bunk bed, but it is Nat that rolls out onto the stage every morning when we wake, since I don't like the top bunk ;)
We have a huge kitchen, as it is next door at a little community centre-type building (where they could hold a dance, and where three-year olds come for daycare every Friday morning), but it's perfect for 12 people. The toilets and showers, however, are the public toilets.....much like the ones we searched for while living out of a van for a week travelling to Melbourne so we could have a free shower LOL.

There is no wireless in Surat (doesnt surprise me), but I am sad to report that I have NO CELL SERVICE in Surat. Good thing we're in Roma every other day, so I can txt people, but it would be nice to have some sort of way to reach the outside world. Only Luke's phone works (iPhone with Telstra coverage). I am also on Telstra, but since I have an oooooold Nokia, I'm SOL :(

I have been here four weeks and a day. Tomorrow I will have been here a month! Only 58 days left to go.....which brings me to my next dilemma:
I'm meeting my folks in Brisbane for Easter, and then I was gonna try to find farmwork/regional picking/packing work somewhere.....but if I come back here, my room and food is taken care of, whereas if I stay in Brisbane it might be a few days/week(s) til I find something, and then I'd have to travel to the area.....so I'd have to pay for a hostel and food in order to maybe eventually get a job. Plus, the backpacker business is pretty cut throat; everyone's trying to get their 88 days ASAP. I would love a packing job with an hourly wage and accommodation on site, but that's in a perfect world. I have 11 days to decide whether or not I'm coming back here to do more days.....IF I return, my 88 days will be complete on May 27th, but I will not have very much money left. If I don't come back, I could spend a couple hundred on hostels and travel before I find anything that pays me AND gives me my 88 days.
Thoughts?
I could always come back here for a bit and keep checking surrounding areas for work....but I have no transportation, so it might be difficult.....most of the harvest trail jobs require transport or accommodation (ie backpackers that have vans) and other job sites require a membership in order to provide you with people looking for workers....plus with my limited access to the Internet it'll be difficult to actively look for work.
IF I knew we were staying in a specific area for a while, I would get a serving job on the weekends, but I doubt we're staying in Surat for more than 2 weeks, so that's out. Anyway, that's definitely something that I need to think about.

Besides that, nothing much else going on....I'm an excellent fencer lol and I got to drive an automatic ute this weekend. We went to Roma for the races, which pale in comparison to the largest race in the country (Melbourne cup), which I attended in November, but it was still an alright time. Some of us had a better time than others, and those would be the slightly richer that could afford $5 beers for five hours straight. Not I, sadly.

Our 'NY style loft' has a projector screen, so we've been watching movies on it...pretty neat :)

And that's about it. I'll write another update in a few days, if there's anything interesting happening LOL

Much love xoxoxo