The other bits…
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008…That we have achieved on Koh Tao are legion. So long as one considers walking to the shops after a long day spent laying beside a sun drenched pool as a variety of experiences. Lauren is raving about the shopping here for clothes so last Monday we developed an incentive to save money which we could spend on whatever we wanted, guilt free. Cunningly, we have named it the Monday Incentive. I think there’s a very high chance I’ll end up spending mine on the finer things the island has to offer. Beer, for example.
I’ve also picked up some Bhuddist teachings book, you have to, when you’re out here really don’t you? Otherwise I won’t be half as smug as I could be when we finally return.
Other than that we have spent the days with our buddies the Irish girls, another girl called Ellisia (sp!) and a few other folk who are becoming more recognisable with each passing day.
We are avoiding as much as we can the super-wholesome divers. The vast majority of people you see around who are the adult equivalent of the scouts. They all lead blameless Blue Peter presenter style lives (ignoreing Richard Bacon of course,) and are generally very nice people. On the boat I got talking to some of them and they really are nice. I’m like the person in the zombie movie who gets bitten but manages to hide it and not turn straight away, even though the zombification is inevitable. Lauren is going to turn around one day and I’m going to be insisting we go to bed at 9p.m. ‘cos I have some voluntary work to do in the morning.
Lauren is claiming to be T-total, even now as I write she reenforces her resolution. I think it has a direct correlation to the money she is trying to save for a new dress. Lauren is very pretty.
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