the day after the half-moon party!

OK so i am not hung-over like the name implies but Emily and Dionne are haha. Last night was a half-moon party, which is essentially what the island of Koh Phanagn exists for (half, full, and non-moon parties). We started the night at a backpackers painting each other in fluro paint and dancing which was fun. We taxi'd to the party which had several thousand people and tons of fluro paint and black lights!! Was lots of fun and i even lasted till 3am. there were plenty of thai girls to be had too which was interesting to watch! they were wearing about 1/3 of what Lonely Planet says not to wear in Thailand!! I didnt get any thai girls hitting on me but i did have one grumpy canadian guy who walked off in a huff when i told him i wouldnt have sex with him while waiting for the taxi to leave... that was fun!
Earlier that day had been really good too. we decided to take our mopeds over to the main tourist part of the island, but on the way discovered the steepest roads i have ever seen. It was scary doing it later in the taxi (which is a ute with seats in the back) so it was even scarier doing it on a moped. At one point emily stopped to try and take a photo and she couldnt park her bike as it justkept rolling down the hill! At least it didnt rain while we were doing it...

at the moment i am at Koh Samui (the island next to Koh Phanagn) waiting for our 10pm flight. We spent a few hours at the beach and while the girls got massages i talked to this thai guy who used fire poi's!! They were much longer than the ones in NZ and he used them quite differently but it was funny to see. He tried to teach me a little bit but i was terrible at it... I tried to teach him the letter R which apparently is really hard for thai people - which makes saying my name almost impossible... Im starting to think i should just make up a new name because everybody has trouble with it haha.

one really good thing is that i am loving this thai heat. Even when it is really hot i feel fine with it, and as soon as its not hot i start to think i am cold because i am so used to it already! i didnt even go for a swim at the beach earlier because i was just enjoying reading my book and being hot. great! Tomorrow will be interesting though.. apparently i have an 8 hour bus trip to the orphanage where i am volunteering, along windy roads.. the bus might have air con but otherwise it will be a fun trip!

Anyway I should really head off now trying to save money as have been spending way too much the past few days!

catch you all,
Ingrid

p.s. I love recieving emails and replies to my blog to hear what you are up to. I am thinking of you all through the thunderstorms in my shorts and t-shirt..