Congratulations Mr & Mrs Kendall !!!
Thinking of you & sending lots of love
X X X
J & S

18/19th June was the annual ‘Save Koh Tao Festival’   Various activities go on, Giant clam, Turtle releases and Thai ceremonies.  During the evening, dozens of bars, food stands and stalls open selling all sorts.  On the big stage,  you’ve got Miss Koh Tao, which is a competition for the best recycled outfit, Dive schools perform and then later on, Thai bands and DJ’s play the night away. It’s a brilliant event for such a small island.  A lot of work and effort goes into the festival grounds.

In the morning, Si left early as he was finishing off his Open Water course.   I on the other hand was off but had entered myself in the Koh Tao Cycle.  I had registered a few days earlier and got a free ‘T’shirt and flag for my bike.  There were far more entrees than I had anticipated.  Kids on bikes with stabilizers and groups of riders that had come all the way over from Koh Samui with some really nice and expensive bikes.  As I wasn’t feeling too brill, coming down with a sore throat and fever I was eager to get going but for something that was supposed to start at 9.30am, we didnt get going until after mid day  ..oh the heat!!   It wasn’t too bad as lots of restaurants and establishments were giving free fruit, drinks and food away, for one day only, so you could stop, eat, drink and rest as much as you wanted/needed. Everyone was so supportive and smiley  ..it was lovely, language didn’t matter that day 😀

Oh the last few days have been very tiring.  We’ve had the Full Moon idiots ascend on the island.  So starting in the office at 9am.  I was up for starting academics in the afternoon.  The final student count was 30 which was going to be split between 5 instructors.  I picked all lads  ..2 English which were lovely and 4 Americans which were a pain in the **** the whole way through the course.  They were all about 23/24 but were high maintenance.  One chap freaked in the deep end of the pool so I had organised to come in early the next day to do a one on one so he could join the group in the afternoon  …but he didn’t show and turned up around 11.30 with not even an apology  …he thought it would be cancelled due to the rain  ..ARGHHHHHHHHH.   So down to 5 students I continued the course having to make various threats about safety, not certifying them etc to get them to listen and not to prat about  ..I’ve never knew a bunch of Americans, New Yorkers to be so rude  ..when asked by my manager “Did you get any Con-ed (continuing education)  ..I have never been so pleased to say “NO”

Oh and one more thing  ..the day my course finished, Si was working late shift and they only came into the office moaning that they didn’t want to pay for the extra night that they had stayed and slated Crystal… A full blown argument ensued before the Thai staff called the police… not pleasant  …so sorry that Si had to deal with them.

Jen