Phuket

What a busy week! We only had work Wed, Thurs and Fri so it went by so quickly! We finally met three other volunteers and spent some time with them going out for meals and Thai Massages etc.

School is still great! We are starting to learn the kids personalities now and a few names, they're so difficult to remember. I wish we could speak Thai because a few of them are quite chatty with us and we just have to respond with smiles and nods as if we understand! Charlotte and I both have our favourites (I know we shouldn't but we do!) and are planning to bring them home.

This weekend seven of us went to Phuket and had an awesome time. It had been raining all afternoon Friday and hadn't stopped by the time we needed to leave. We got two motorbikes, a boat and walked about 15 minutes through the sheets of rain. They weren't lying that it was rainy season! Our clothes were stuck to us and all the clothes in my rucksack were drenched! Once we got on the bus we saw there were no seats so we were all sat in the aisles hoping that someone would want to get off before Phuket. Thankfully they did but some people had to stand the whole THREE hours! Once we arrived we went to Patong where we had booked a guesthouse, then headed out to dinner and a couple of bars before heading to bed, knackered!

Saturday morning the sun was up (finally) so we rushed to the beach and got harrassed all day by people wanting to sell us their stuff! One little boy kissed my cheek and gave me a flower necklace...he was like 'come on flower, 100bht' he was cute and i felt mean saying no..he'll get over it! We went banana boating and then shopping for fake goods before going out for an amazing Indian meal then...wait for it...a LADYBOY SHOW!! haha it was so disturbing but amazingly fun. They all wanted their pictures taken with us and we happily obliged! They're such weirdo's though! Charlotte was a bit freaked out, I think we all were to be honest but it was something we wanted to experience in Phuket so with a couple of Changs (Thai Beers) in our systems we watched them miming to Lady Gaga and Phil Collins! Afterwards the others headed back but Charlotte, Grace and I went and sat on the beach with our beers and watched people lighting lanterns to send into the sky.

Sunday was a bit of a random day, we headed to the bus station about 4 where we were moments from missing it! They had waited for us but were just about to give up and stopped the bus reversing out of its space for us to get on...we were so lucky to get on.
Once we were home we sat and had dinner with the family and just as we finished a woman walked in (they just wander into other peoples houses all the time here!) saying that Charlotte and I were going with her to meet 'our friends' for dinner, Since we are the only people we know of on the island we didn't know who these 'friends' were :S Outside were a Dutch and an English girl in our Tuk Tuk and we were taken to a restaurant to eat a second dinner with them. They live next door and aren't with Projects Abroad. It was so random!

This week we are planning to head to Ao Nang after school a couple of days and have a hike up Tiger Temple on Thursday. We have a new volunteer arriving tomorrow to live with us so we're looking forward to that.

Anyway we're going for an ice cream. Sorry this is a babbling post!

Amie & Charlotte xxxx