Finishing up in Phuket

21.11.2006 26 °C

Hey peeps,

We've finished our exams!! The final exam took much longer and involved a LOT of writing, but we got through it!

We've been doing a little more beach lounging seeing as we've had a little extra time. We've finished all our teaching classes too.

The first pictures are off the 'balloons' they send off here. As part of the celebration for the past full moon, they send these off in to the air and float candles on the sea as part of a buddhist celebration.

There was also a big festival opening the tourist season! although it doesn't really start till December, it gives them an excuse to increase prices .

John from the course took us to a couple beaches and let us borrow some snorkels. The first beach was a nightmare to get to! Meli had to get off the scooter and walk because it was very steep and rocky. There was some nice coral, but we were cut short because the tide was going out.

The next beach was Laem Sing. It was slightly more accessible and very beautiful. Here we did more snorkeling and did some airline diving. This involves a floating engine pumping air down to us through tubes. John owns a couple as part of his beach business, so we got a free test run! We did also help carry them down to the beach .

Theres a couple more pictures of us going out on Bangla Road. We went there after our final exam. The muay thai we saw was a bit rehearsed, but they were still clocking each other pretty hard! The man to the right of Meli is John. The last shot is of melissa popping a silk worm into her mouth! Note it was an action shot and Melissa wasn't posing with it on her tongue! She says it was horrible because when you bit down on it all the yucky stuff on the inside oozed out. Yuch. She also ate a grasshopper. Better her than me!