(10 November)

Woke up in the space between Anna's bed and the one next to hers (it was essentially a row of mattresses lol) still not feeling too bad at about 9am and got the introductions to most of the other people in her room who I hadn't met the night before. They were nice, a few canadians and Irish. Anna and I went in search of some food, I had a big craving for mashed potatoes...I actually can't wait to get to oz and have some proper ones! We went for a walk down to the beach, met a scottish and English guy who had a guitar and had breakfast with them so I could play the guitar haha, severely missing musical instruments! Would actually kill for an hour with a piano! I has some smash which really was no substitute for mash. Was good craic though, and then we got tired again and went back to bed till the afternoon.

Scott and Hollie were meant to meet us at Anna's (Scott called back at the hostel and was going to bring me some clothes etc and money) but we had no luck at all finding them all day...waited for a good while then heard nothing so went to get lunch, then got back to the hostel and had just missed them by like 10 minutes! We met the 3 English guys from the Bangkok hostel on her road and it turned out that they were in the hostel across the road. One of them had fallen off the back of a tuk tuk the night before and landed on his head!! His eye was massively swollen and his head was all cut, it looked horrendous! He was relatively ok though which was lucky...had to go get his eye drained after talking to us...gross. So we went down to the beach thinking we might find Scott and Hollie there, but no luck. We did run into the English guys again - Anna made the observation that all the guys travelling seem to be in groups and the girls are on their own, Sam (i think) remarked that that was because they had friends! Charming haha...although i'm not really in any position to argue that I had loads of friends lining up to come with me...haha! We gave up on the beach after a while and as we were going to leave we ran into Rory and Lisa from our tour! It was class to see them although they had just run into Hollie who had told them we would probably be on the beach so they clearly hadn't been that worried about finding us haha. We arranged to see them later on on the beach and went back to the hostel, thinking they would hopefully find us there if we stayed in one place. I had bought a few things so could survive without going back which was just aswell because Scott's effort at bringing me supplies had amounted to pyjamas...boys lol. He also leant me enough money to get through the night.

We all got ready at Anna's and put on loads of UV paint which was fun, before heading out to dinner. Had a pretty good curry at a Thai place, then went down to the beach to see what was going on.

It was absolutely crazy. So many people! And we were down fairly early! Fire was everywhere - spinners/skipping ropes/signs...UV paint everyone. We went and got buckets an then went to a bar up the beach a bit for a bit, and when we got back it was absolutely bunged. The sea was filled with people going to the toilet, so disgusting! All the toilets were charging to get in but it was worth it! We got back up to where we had said we would meet Rory and Lisa and it was pretty obvious that wasn't going to work. The amount of people actually really freaked me out and I got really claustrophobic, ended up having to go and get some food to get away from it all! It was good once I got used to the people though, really good craic and we stayed out till the sunrise even though I was absolutely shattered! Lost the pair of flip flops I had found the night before lol.

When the sun came up it was kind of horrible to he honest, you could see all the drunk people jumping about, the rubbish was absolutely disgusting and the beach had just been destroyed! Still a good night though.