Today I went back to Paia after calling Lena to make sure I still had a spot. I also bought the skateboard and ripped around the streets on that for a while. Gabriel and Martin had a go on it as well outside the Lahaina hostel. I hung with them a bit actually and the argentinian who was in my room. He gave us a couple of drinks as well. After I got back, I went to the hostel where I met Mary. A beautiful girl from Idaho, planning on moving to Hawaii for a while...

I was orignally planning on going to Lahaina today but there wasn't any availability at the hostel there until tomorrow, so I think I'll head round there then. Once again, I had breakfast, chatted to a few people and then went down checked out the waves and then went for a surf with the same board I hired yesterday. It was a little bit flatter but it was a lot easier and less effort to get on waves. Maybe I'm just finally getting some upper body strength. I did t...

Today I woke up reasonably early, chatted to the Argentinian guys (Martin and Gabriel) and an older American guy, Tim and Josie over breakfast. Then I went up the stairs and played piano for a while and then got ready for a surf. I went back to the same surf shop where I got the board the other day but they had a 6'4" board that suited me a lot better. The waves were quite a bit smaller than they were the other day, more at my level. I ended up staying at for abo...

Today was a bit annoying really. I got woken up by some very unwelcomed rain at about 8am which didn't stop raining until about 1pm. It was basically lightly drizzling all day though. Despite waking up at around 8, I didn't leave the hostel until about 11 because of the rain. I hadn't bought any food from the supermarket yet so I had nothing to eat until I went out at 11 to buy something. It was still quite a fun morning. I just chilled in the kitchen while Gabri...

Today was a big day. I woke up at 9 to go to Universal studios with Emily and CJ. We ended leaving at about 10:30 but once we were going to get tickets, Emily found out that she needed her student ID to activate her annual pass or something like that, so we had to drive back and get it. The next time when we went we would have got there at about 12 but before going in we grabbed an extremely overpriced lunch but it was nice enough. Then we finally hit the park....