so i left Koa pAGNANG ON THURSDAY MORNING AND SWEATED ALL THE WAY TO THE PIER. i HAD TO BEG THE BUNGLAOW PEOPLE TO TAKE ME IN A TAXI AS I ONLY HAD TEN MINUTES TO MAKEW TH BOAT. i caught it anyway so all was well. Got there and nearly punched a few people because it gets so annoying when your draped in bags from head to toe in 34 red hot sun and everyone is pushing leaflets in your face and shouting taxi taxi! i'll find somewhere on my own thanks!

More or less walked into the first diving centre, they had bungalows for three quid a night and could take me diving that afternoon so i dumped all my stuff and went diving while i waited for the others to get in touch so i could find where they were! strangly, i saw two of the girls walking up thre\\e street, its gets a bit wierd how you keep bumping into the same people but i suppose that good! anyway, they were about a ten minute walk from where i was but i ended up getting a taxi because i tried to walk 'down there' four times and kept coming to a dead end, i sear to god the track wasnt there when i first walked it! Got my first steak and chips of the holiday in this nice restraunt hanging over the harbour harbour and then had a n early night as i was diving again in the moring. Spent the following afternoon on the beach and then we all got pretty drunthat night and ended up singing sch9ool hims outside someones bunglaow, dontr know whether they didnt wake up, werent in or were just scared of the attempt to 'sing'. anyway, nothing lost trhat night you'll be glad to hear but i have broken my phone, i think it was when i sat in a chair and it broke but the screen was completely cracked, therefore, i have bought a new one and while i was at it i cut a deal for a sim card as well, so i have a thai number - which is, +66812718672 so i wont be using my english one for a while. its pretty cheap for my to txt and ring engl\and from this one so i probably will reply if you send a txt but saying that, ive been saying its cheap to everything for the past two weeks and so far ive spent about hthree times what i should have. i hate buying eater all the time but if i drink the tap water i thgink there might be a shortage of immodium on the isalnds!

i did another dive this morning at half five so that we were the only boat out there and therefore less noise and more chance of seeing things, no such luck! to be honest ive been really disspointed with the diving. the sites are really nice but they have got so popular there has been up to ten dive boat at one site and the same time. these are sitres with two buoys so there are several boats tied to each other and you can constantly here engines above you, not sa\uprisingly, no whale shars for me!

weve also learned to accept that you dont get meals at the same time over here, your starte comes when it like sand there is always one person left weaiting until after everyone else has finished. we all tried being polite in the first place but then youir food just gets cold so we start as soon as it comnes. and my god dont ask for a discount cos the service was so crap. everyone decided to complain the other night but i didnt see the point in complaining just for the sake of t so i asked for it free, not gonna work, i started to feel a bit like the heavies werew coming in and since the only other option was to give it back, i paid and ate it all, as you do! the same has happened tonight, we have now come to koa samui where there is a starbucks, pizza hut, burger king, macky d's and a boots pharmacist! we went to pizza hut which is identicaL TO the ones at home aside from the hair in the pizza, never mind, they gave us some free chips!

apologies for the typing again, the words come up alot slower than my typing and i cant be bothered to go back and edit it all, nightmare!

in a bit!