Today is my last full day on Koh Tao.

The weather over the past week has cooled down a little as it has been more cloudy, adding to everyones happiness. For the past few weeks I have been the only volunteer on my program but it has worked out well. I tried to go Scuba Diving last thursday but it didn't go well. Seasickness prevented me from being able to dive so I just sat on Koh Nang-Yaun beach for a while and swam around, with my only view of the marine life being ominous dark shapes below me as I swam back to the dive boat. On one level I was disappointed but on the other I was so glad not to have to wear all the gear anymore because even after 5 minutes my wet suit was really uncomfortable and tight. I also met a few people and we all went out to dinner a few times so I could show them some nice places to eat and they could tell me all about other plaes in Thailand they have been to.

This week has been mainly taken up with making stuff for the festival at the weekend. It is a conservation festival that happens once a year and all school and a lot of the shops get involved making things. We have made posters about rubbish decomposition rates (it takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to biodegrade :O) , about cigarette butts (if you eat 200 of them the amount of nicotine still in the butts will kill you), about liquid compst you can make out of old fruits and veges and a few others are being made today. We also made lots of signs for rubbish bins as people around here have a habit of just leaving things lying around on the roads (more so than other places :S) and the marine volunteers hade some models and are trying to grow coral in buckets so they can transport it to their coral nursery underwater.

Oh, and we went snorkelling with the reef sharks. By yourself it is terrifying as the Jaws theme song seems to keep replaying in my head. But when we went in a pair it was great. I am pretty sure they are Black Tip Reef Sharks.

This week I have also tried lots of crazy snack food such as green bread, biscuit sticks, banana cakes which are just like muffins and cost aout 50c (yum) and they also sell these things that look like dried fish which I might try later.

Tomorrow I leave or Bangkok, have a day of shopping there and then head to Chiang Mai in the North. Hurrah!