LAST DAY ON THE ISLAND!

Unfortunately today is our last day on the beautiful island of Koh Phi Phi, as we leave bright and early tomorrow morning to go back to Bangkok! We are excited though to have some warm fresh showers and wash some clothes, which are all either wet from swimming or covered in mud! I am going to miss the island very much and working with the Regent students, as I have met some very cool people! Since I have not been on in a few days, let me give you a brief description of what we have done:
Monday: We went out on the longtails to go SNORKLING in the clear beautiful ocean and we had the opportunity to visit many islands, like Koh Phi Phi Lay (from the movie 'The Beach', which was a really good movie that we got to watch the night before). The ocean was ALMOST as beautiful as Bermuda, but my main concern when we went out there was to make sure that I did not see any sharks and I am happy to say that I did not run into any :)
Tuesday: DIGGING, which is always fun!
Wednesday: This was actually the best day of the week for me, as we go to go to the other side of the island, which was more tourist like and so we got to do LOTS OF SHOPPING! We also had a great experience of climbing up to a view point, which was quite a struggle, as it seemed like we were climbing 1,000 steps! Once we got up there, although out of breathe, it was definently worth it, as the view was incredible! I even decided to push myself and climb further to the other viewpoint! We were able to visit the Tsunami Memorial Garden, which was very emotional for most of us, and although it is a peacful place, a bar had been built right by the garden and so there was very loud music, which was quite disturbing and disappointing! I also was able to have the absolutely amazingly delicious pancakes that Mrs. Nash has been talking about since we got to the island and I am really hoping that they have them in Bangkok because they were the best I have ever tasted!!!
Finally today instead of digging as normal, we have started to dig holes, which has been exciting so far and then tonight we are having a barbeque to say our goodbyes to the regent students, which will be very sad!
This has been an amazing experience that I will never forget and I cannot wait to come back in 2.5 years to see the final result from the service project.
well now i have to go back to digging :)
SEE YOU ALL SOON!