I got up about 6:30am after another disturbed night of sleep this morning. However I did feel marginally better than yesterday, as my body had stopped aching. I had a couple of mushed up weetabix's for breakfast and then spoke to Tom (my boss). He said not to worry about being ill, he has taken me off the work rota for the week, so I will just be added back in when I'm capable of working again. That's a bit of a relief as at one point it looked like if I was goi...

So I woke up this morning about 4am unable to swallow or breathe properly and my whole body hurt, like my joints and muscles ached. I text mum to find out what the symptoms of Tonsillitis are, as 1/2 others in the camp have had it. Turns out that's exactly what I had. I told Rick, the guy meant to be training me on my second shift this morning, that I didn't feel well and was going back to bed. He came back in at about 8:30am to see if I was any better and able ...

What a strange day - in the morning I was part of the academy and surfing with everyone, by the evening I was helping round camp and washing their dishes.. I surfed on my 7am lesson at Mulawarra. When we got there the surf was crap, just like the day before a choppy 1-2ft. This time I stalled for an hour on the beach, watching the waves and talking to Linton instead of getting straight in. When I did start surfing after about half an hour the surf just switched...

So this morning, my last full day of Academy (!), our lesson was at 7am. I got up at half 6 after a pretty bad nights sleep and after breakfast etc we went off to Mulawarra. When we first got there the surf was awful - 1-2ft max, with Rips going through any of the surfable peaks. As the tide dropped out it eventually became pretty clean in the southern corner, where I have surfed a lot recently as there has been no swell and rubbish winds. No matter what the sur...

So this morning our surf lesson was at 9:30am, which was pretty lucky as I had a lay in again and sorted some stuff on my NetBook. The group before had gone off to surf at Sandys and hadn't got back in time for our lesson, so we went off to surf Mulawarra and Linton met us there. Unfortunately the surf was absolutely crap - about 1-2ft max and choppy as hell. Despite having a really rubbish surf I came out in good spirits though, it was just fun to be out in the...