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(9 December)
Had a pretty bad night itching loads, was not fun! Woke up and went out to see what the craic was with the included breakfast, and there was a girl sitting at the communal table thing so I went to talk to her. Her name was Vanessa and she was from Brazil. I ordered a banana pancake and while we waited more people appeared - a girl called Kedy from Holland and a girl called Sabrina from Germany. They were all really nice and single travellers...it was really funny to have so many lone travellers in one place! They were talking about going snorkelling so I decided to join them to the beach at least, despite my Phi Phi induced fear of fish, and on the way we picked up Brian, an Irish guy from the room next to Vanessa.
It was a really nice wee group! We went down to the beach and i didn't get a snorkel because I was really iffy about it, so I chilled on the beach for a bit while the others went out. It was gorgeous, the water was such an amazing colour! After a bit Vanessa came back to sunbathe and lent me her snorkel to try. It was absolutely amazing!!! I wasn't scared at all, it wasn't like in Phi Phi where they were all around you and the guy was feeding them and stuff, they were all just doing their own thing in the water. I saw so many different types of fish, it was so cool, some from Finding Nemo!! Haha, the water was so clear you could see so much... It was beautiful! A few of the others saw a turtle but I couldn't find it, but it was still so amazing! Gutted I didn't man up and do it more/do some diving now! But oh well. Afterwards we chilled on the beach for a bit and chatted, we all got on pretty well which was cool, hadn't really had a group like it since phi phi. Was quite funny because Vanessa is a model, Brian is an ex-stockbroker who wants to do fashion photography, and Kedy just finished a fashion internship...so random to have that high a concentration of fashiony people haha, I don't think before them I'd ever met anyone in that sort of area!
We had lunch on a place on the beach and I realised I was a bit burnt so went home afterwards while the others went back to the beach - I had been sitting in the shade but didn't realise that the sun reflects off the sand and still burns you! Fail, I had lovely tan lines from sitting cross legged haha.
Went back and had a nap, then went with the others for dinner. We had found two German girls and an English guy from our homestay and they joined us too! Was funny being in such a big group all of a sudden lol. We walked about a bit and found some cheapish food, and then went to Rudy's, where "the party" was supposed to be that night. It was alright, our group was good craic but the atmosphere in the bar was really weird...I feel a bit racist saying it but there was a lot of locals there, and they made us all feel a bit uncomfortable...it was really strange as well because when we were dancing we felt a bit like giants - all the locals were tiny!! Hadn't noticed before then. It was very odd. We went home early enough, only Kedy and the English guy stayed and apparently they were back not long after us!
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