Paradise Found

 I was told the overnight train would gently rock me to sleep...more like a violent shaking than a gentle rocking. It was exciting, but I barely slept, alas not all of Thailand's rail system is as well maintained as the skytrain. It arrived at 7 in the morning for a bus ride that mysteriously unloaded everyone at a depot in the middle of a swamp before piling everyone back on the same bus to continue the journey to the dock. The two and a half hour boat ride to Ko Phangnan crossed very rough seas, causing the contents of many of it's passengers stomaches to be emptied into small plastic bags. I had taken a travel sickness tablet and a pre-emptive anti nausia tablet and so was spared such a fate. On the island I got on the back of a motorbike and was wizzed to the other side to where the Lonley Planet had promised $5 a night bungaloes on the best swimming beach on the island. They were right about the best beach on the island... but the place seemed to have gone up in price 5 times. Cursing the authors that tricked me so, I trudged up the road in search of cheeper digs. It was hot, and I was tired, and eventually I resigned myself to the fact there was no $5 bungalos. I settled instead for a room close to the beach. I was set. The beach is beautiful, palm tree fringed with powder white sand that decends gently into the lapping clean blue Gulf of Thailand. It is the classical tropical paradise, and there is hardly anyone here! After hours of waiting I finally got into an internet cafe (they dont open early) and recieved my HSC results, which have made me very happy indeed. ATAR comes out tommorow! Im wondering how everyone in my year went, im sure everyone went swimmingly. After this I am going for another swim to celebrate.