arrived in auckland and made way to hostel...soooo tired but when i arrived janine and laura had left a message to say they were here too!!!! then bumped into nina and annie the norwegian girls i met in the cook islands!...such a small world! went to have shower and realised i had left all bathroom stuff in fiji! noooo!!!!!! so, went shopping (oooooohhh the clothes!) had a mcdonalds and walked straight next door to dunkin donuts! i love it here!! walked arou...

woke up fully clothed on my bed which is not good when in fiji (wearing jeans so extremely hot!) supposed to be doing one last dive but felt a \'tad\' hungover so prayed for a miracle...........and it came! the machine that puts air in the tanks broke down! yay!! (sorry kieran!) went for a snorkel which was amzing (this is apparently the best reef in fiji and even the world!) made a bracelet from a coconut and did some more sunbathing....what a hard life! ...

left janine and laura and travelled to manta ray with jamie to do our dive courses! over next three days................ met a really nice guy called chris who sounds exactly like my brother!! he had been working on a crocodile farm in australia.....scary stories!! helen was on the island still with some other girls who were all really nice aswell! started my diving courses straight away ( me ,jamie and petra)....hard work as have to learn loads of...

started off the day snorkelling! loads of jellyfish but they dont sting luckily...........only found out after getting one in my face!! decided to try diving so did an introductory course! there were only two of us with the australian instructor (kieran - who turned out to be really cool guy). had to tip out of the boat backwards like you see on the films!! equipment so heavy for me as im small but once in the water its ok. instructor held our hands the whol...

started the day early by going out hand-line fishing!! i didnt catch anything! janine thought her line was stuck on a rock and just sat there pulling on her line for ages..... when i finally managed to pull it in for her there was a huge fish on the end!! didn't like seeing them die but apparently its bad luck for the boat driver if we through them back in??!! think he just wanted it for dinner!! saw some huge orb spiders today! they are massive and have ...