hello, so whats been going on here? It feels like not much, but I suppose it's just not much compared to the busy craziness that has been going on recently! finished my advanced diving course yesterday which was pretty cool. We had to chose 5 specialities and I chose deep, navigation, night, multilevel and naturalist. I think the best by far was the night dive, it was so cool! very scary at the beginning, like jumping inot the sea in the dark and stuff, asll...

I am sitting in this internet cafe, but I feel like I am floating on water, its such a wierd feeling! Today I finished my open water course! I am now officially an open water diver! I would rercommend diving to anyone, It is so good, and you feel like you are flying in the water, weighless completely! Although casrrying around the hench thing on your back before getting in is a bit of a killer! I will enevr complain about having to wear a backpack again! we saw ...

Luckily I made some friends since my last update and have been very busy since then! I started my dive course yesterday and I am doing it with 4 other girls and our instuctor is called nige and he is mad! The wierdest thing ever happened... we were all introducing ourselves and stuff, and one of the girls was like "I come from St. Albans, if you know it?" and I was like "WHAT, noway! me too!" and it turns out she went to townsend and went to p...

So I arrived in Koh Tao yesterday and got shown to my room which is a verrrrry nice room. its got two beds in so if anyone wants to come and stay... then feel free! it has a little balcony that overlooks the sea and the diving pool is literally right outside my door. I will take some photos! but yeah, Im currently feeling very lonely becuase I dont know anyone here, and its not like at the centre where everyones rooms are together and everyone eats together where...

I shouldnt be here, but I am becuase I'm silly and my journey went wrong! whoooops! its okay though, becuase thai people are so nice, I havent felt at all unsafe or anything... okay hang on I'll start fropm the beginning. I have now left the elephant project and I am already missing them so so so much. But the girls and I said we would all go back next year just for a week for a little reunion and stuff. and last night we had another big "all the v...