Date: 16th July 2011 Place: Kota Kinabalu Weather: sunny I was so excited for today but also so nervous! It was my first day of diving!! I got up super early and walked to the office where I met the other two and also a group of other divers who were just doing fun dives. We tried on our wetsuits and then were squashed into the tiniest little van which turned out to be for the shortest ride ever that we could have easily walked! When we got to the islan...

Date: 15th July 2011 Place: Kota Kinabalu Weather: Sunny Diving course day!!! I snuck out of my room and walked down to the diving shop. I was really nicely surprised when I found out 2 other people had joined my diving course because it had meant I didn't need to pay a single supplement of £50!! I met Elise and a german guy (cant remember his name because I could never pronounce it!) in the back room where we met our instructor Jason Oh. It was only t...

Date: 13th July 2011 Place: Sandakan Weather: Sunny We had planned on having a lie in today but we seemed to wake up early naturally. Rather than curry for breakfast today it was noodles; yum. We had to fill up our morning before getting buses out of there so we went on the internet for a while and then went for a wonder down to the harbour. On our way there we walked through the central market. They don't see many white people in their and apparently b...

Date: 12th july 2011 Place: Sandakan Weather: sunny We slept over the alarm this morning and were woken up by Sheila who was a Canadian woman going on the same trip as us today with the rest of her family. We had to get up and dressed pretty quickly and then had the breakfast we had paid for which turned out to be basically naan bread and curry sauce to dip it in…not really what I fancied at 8am! Well we got in the car and were only half an hour behin...

Date: 11th July 2011 Place: Kinabalu National Park Weather: sunny I woke up at 8ish and my legs were killing me! I couldn't bring myself to get up. When I finally did I went to have a nice warm shower which I thought would soothe them. It turned out the water wasn't on because of a water shortage. I was gutted so we left the hostel in a bad mood with them. We were going to go to the Poring Hot Springs but it felt like too much of an effort so we decided...