With the help of Dingo, me and Alice spent the morning filling out our review questions of the first 4 sections of the scuba theory, and then watched section 5. After lunch it was time to do our first proper diving session! We got a boat to Koh Nangyuan, which allowed us to see Koh Tao from the sea- an even more stunning view than it is on the island. The first dive spot was called Japanese gardens, and we descended 12 metres for 39 minutes. It's a lot easie...

We went to 7-eleven to get yoghurt/ hot water to eat with our cereal we had got for breakfast, and then went for our first scuba theory lesson. Eddie and Adina, the couple from the US, had managed to get on our course with us (we had seen them yesterday after we had booked onto it). The morning was a bit dull as we just watched the DVDs for section 1-4 of the theory. Given this took about 3 hours, our concentration wasn't at its peak by lunchtime! We put ou...

I had a pretty good sleep although we got to Koh Tao at 5 am. It was dark when we got there so brought a coffee from 7-eleven (and I splashed half of it up my arm because my rucksack had slipped from my shoulder to the crook of my arm). We sat in the waiting area because we couldn't get in to the hostel until 8 am, and met a Parisian girl who was also staying in Soiree Beach- she was going to walk when it got light so we joined her. It was a fairly long way to ...