Last Day!

Sorry it's taken so long to get on here but I couldn't get back on my account! Anyway we've been in Thailand for 13 days now and in Koh Phi Phi for 9 days....today is our last full day and no one is looking forward to leaving tomorrow morning....I'm even going to miss digging! We've all finally adjusted to the time change now, but it still feels really weird to think that it's 8:15 Thursday morning here now but it's like 10 pm on Wednesday in Bermuda!
Yesterday we went to the other side of Koh Phi Phi Don and went sightseeing and it was amazing. We first went to the hospital that was worked on by the group 2 years ago and Mrs. Nash was explaining to all of us how they had dug the holes for the solar powered lights along the tsunami evacuation route. We then went to the Ban Laem Tong school and saw the murals painted 2 years ago. We then hiked up to the View Point which was 346 steps just to View Point 1...AND THERE WERE 3! Mrs Cook and Mr Walter are standing here now and they say that its about 108m up....and it was STRAIGHT up, the steps were so steep that some people were using there hands to pull themselves up and my foot didn't even fit halfway on one step! We then stopped at a little cafe at View Point 1 and most of the 45 of us stayed there but me and others came up to View Point 2 with us, which was 1 kilometer up from the cafe. Unfortunatly we were told it was too dangerous to go up to View Point 3. The View Points are the tsunami evacuation routes, and many of the people that live on Koh Phi Phi Don were running up and doing push ups and stuff at the top while many of us were struggling to put one foot in front of the other. Almost all of the students from both the Regent's School and BHS raced down to the cafe from View Point 2, and we all felt really bad when we reached the bottom and realised it took 25 minutes to get there and 5 minutes to get down! We then went to the tsunami memorial garden which was really sad and most of us were crying as people read poems and speeches and John played the guitar while Valerie sang with him. Mrs Nash was really dissapointed as a bar had been built right infront of the garden and we could here loud music and shouts and laughing throughout the service. We then had free time to split up and wander around and the group I was with managed to get lost and we kept asking "the hospital? where is the hospital?" and we got directions to the hospital at every shop we stopped at. Everything on the island is really really cheap and I got 2 pairs of fisherman pants (they are the most comfortable pants I have ever worn!) for 250 baht...which is about $8! and 2 tank tops, each for $230 baht. Pansy and I then went and got banana and chocolate Thai pancakes....which are like crepes but 10 times better....I wish we had gotten another one, even though we weren't hungry. Jessica and I got strawberry banana smoothies which were amazing too, and even these 2 things cost about 100 baht combined!
To end the day we took longtail boats back to the other side which was really nice and we saw a water plane land right next to us before we got off the boat and walked along the beach back to the hotel.
Anyway so far we've been working, going island hopping and snorkling and getting sunburnt along the way, but the waters here and the beaches although they are GORGEOUS aren't as beautiful as Bermuda's, but they do come pretty close.
Even though the work is hard and we're exhausted and sweaty by the end of it it is completely worth it as we look at the amount of work we have done and the amount of dirt we have moved and we know that in 2 and a half years (WHEN we come back) we'll be able to see what all this work has accomplished.
Anyway we're starting to dig now so I have to go...
BYE!