Hello and sawadee kah from Phuket! Hope you are impressed with our only new phrase which translates to ...hello. So we are in Phuket and so far we havent reaalyy seen much as we have been relaxing in the amazing hotel (yet another one). This one is really nice, not on the beach but v.close, has an AMAZING pool that goes under bridges and mushrooms and really cool!! The boat trip was amazing again too, same as the krabi phi phi one but covered up a bit more, coz i (lauren) am SOOO burnt..its painful..carly is quite burnt too!!But she applied the lotion evenly so SHE doesnt hasent got patchy burnt skin LIKE I DO DAMMIT! Sorry havent phoned home for a while the rate is like 85 baht per min bt will try and fone u soon!! I had a bit of a BIG DILEMMA AND TRAUMA today...its wierd..everywhere in western toilets there is this like shower head or a bowl of water with a pan and me and carl are like, what do we do with it? We thought it was used to flush down your excretions but..recently we have been seeing signs saying: PLEASE DONT THROW TOILET PAPER DOWN THE TOILET...and we're like well we havent been taught any differently..so we are well confused..but alas we use the god dam toilet paper and throw it down the toilet..just coz we dont want to imagine what the shower head is used for and why they throw THEIR toilet paper in the bin...(an open bin i might add..) In our hotel there is another massive sign about this toilet paper bt me and carl ignore it..and then this morning we weer sitting by the pool and i needed the loo so i went up to the room and blah blah..flushed the toilet..and in 1 second...the toilet filled up with yellow and brown poo and brown water flooded the bathroom floor...and there was floating toilet paper and i was like s***..what do i do...cnt get carly..shes all the way down at the pool. sO i thort RIGHT i need a stick...searched the room...no stick.. so i grabbed a coat hanger from the wardrobe and thought..if i call reception and they see that toilet paper is down the loo..they will just be like...well thats why its all come up....SOOOOO i had to digg out all the used diarrhoea stained tissues and chuck the soggy paper in the bin with a coat hanger... THE STINK WAS HORRIFIC...I swear it was half the hotels morning waste. So i managed to get as much as poss out and then called reception..the toilet was still an ocean of brown and yellow gunk...they came to my room.. saw the toilet and ran out..i was like GREAT...and then they brought two more men with a spade thing and a bin and a plunger...and poor things they had to scoop the poop out and plunge the toilet...and that was the endof that but i cant stop washing my hands and me and carl are scared about going bak to the room and the mess stilll being there...Now we are a bit wary about using toilet paper..but if anyone knows the asian traditions of toileting can u let us know!?!?! And over to carly....

Lol well i dont know what to say after that except im glad it didnt happen to me! ooh its impossible to tan over here coz its just too damn hot and dangerous u either burn horrificly or stay pastey white!so dont be expecting much difference wen we get bak! i think wer finally settling in here and getting used to the thai way off life but we are both looking forward to monday which is wen we meet our group and get to ride elephants!!! but wer really scared aparantly theres bombing on the border of malaysia which is where wer heading soon (family can u do some investigating into this and let me know?!) and i ACTUALLY thort i got shot yesterday there was some weird explosions by our hotel pool and i was getting prepared to dive to th very bottom of the pool altho i dnt know if that would of actually helped, but we were really quite scared especially as we didnt know wot the hell was goin on, and it happend again later-we think they were blowing the ground up so they could do some work to it as we saw thais with tools later (and we hoped it wasnt their bomb disposal team).

hope alls well in england love to everyone

oh and mum and dad im gona wana come to america with u wen i get home so book me and charles a ticket!

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