For New Years we travelled from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan for the full moon party. We met up with a few girls from India and head to the beach. It was absolutely manic! Never seen soo many people in one area. But now once I've done it.. Don't think I'd do it again.. Was just a western trap for drunk tourists.. Loud lairy Brits. We got the ferry back in the morning at 10.30.. Worst thing for my body was getting on that boat.! Stirring my insides about! We made it ...

25th December... Christmas Day and I'm taking an exam at 9am... Easiest exam I've taken though.. A trained chimp could pass it. Although Yusif is still there re-taking it.. Our two dives today we went down to 18m but the visibility wasn't the best cause of the tropical downpour the night before.. Still saw some really cool fish and corals.. And now I'm an open water certified diver!! Woo. Now the celebrations really begin. We went to sunset bar which was just cr...

The accommodation at the dive school is really cool. Right on the beach with their own pool to do our practice diving in. On our first day we learnt the basic hand gestures to say if we're ok etc and how to switch to someone else's air supply under water if ours fails to work, take our masks off for a minute, find them and fill them with air again. On the second day we finished off the rest of general safety crap we had to do in the cold pool.. And then went out...