An Ode to Bamboo island.

Hello there loyal readers and worryers,

I just got back to civilization today, after spending nearly a week, one glorious week on the island of Koh Ru, here off the coast of cambodia. and well, yeah it was splendid. I'm going to give a run down of a day. So I wake up under my mosquito net to the sounds of light waves rocking up on the sandy beach. so I pull myself out of my sleeping revelrie to walk to the balcony to gaze on the shoreline, a beacon standing before me. and I says to myself, enough of this hackjob happiness, lets swim!!!!! So I walk across the silky sand, much like a cream carpet, and I launch into the ocean. after a short dip I voyage down to the restaurant and have some sort of culinary delight. then I read a little. then I'd probably go and lie on the beach for a while, and read some more. about this time I may go and eat lunch. or maybe read some more. I may also decide to lie in the hammock that I hung up at the end of the beach(since lindsay's a hammock hog on our own bungalows porch). as the day does on my worries and stresses thaw like winters of old, or what stresses I can think to remember from back then. it has now come to the time of day which is the big decision point. To shower or not to shower? more often than not I'm just too worn out from the activities of the day to bother, so I settle for going for another swim and having another meal. The nights activities vary from drinking a bottle of wine to reading whatever literary masterpiece was in that day. Bedtime rolls around and I am just tuckered out. but not before a nighttime swim, as we don't want to miss any of the phosphorescents if they're out, basically warm lights of open beauty. and that is how I managed to read 5 books, improve my tan and gain more weight. Nobody wants to waste away now do they?
one big night was when I woke up at about 5am and thought lindsay was banging around. so I said her name, and she was like, what I'm sleeping. so I turned the flashlight into the corner to find.... A RAT!!!!!! Everybody knows how much I detest rats, it's like they're plaguing me!!!! so a did a little bit of a mental freakout, told myself to breathe and get yourself together woman! and then threw whatever books I could reach without putting my feet on the floor into the corner. Seemed to do the trick. but that basically eliminated any more sleeping for me. So there I was at 5:15 am pacing up and down the length of the beach in my pyjamas. Which basically consist of underwear and a see through white tshirt from vietnam. no pants, no bra, nothing. I can basically attest that I'm sure I looked like a nutjob. But that was a big excitment along with some other somewhat ridonkulous events involving wine and red bull and some more people from saskatchewan. but we hung out with some rad people, loved life and have completly loved the wrap up part of the trip. oh and I have burnt my entire back half of my body. sweet. but anyways, tommorrow we're heading back to thailand and will be in bangkok for the weekend before heading to the airport sunday night and flying on home. So only three days left on this marvelous continent. But I best go and meet up with some friends from the island. So that's all for now, shall write again from bangkok, and if I'm really lazy, maybe from Canada!!!!!

loves for lifes

Emily

Allan you are the reincarnate of some great man.

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