Over hyped beach party

So it’s now been almost a month since my last post, and about 2 weeks since I wrote my last blogs, English camp and second week of teaching practice. In this time I have been to the full moon party, not all it’s cracked up to in my opinion, I have been dragged around the south of Thailand in 3 days for 3 different jobs, only one turned out to be an actual job and not an interview, I have started teaching, there have been floods, I have fallen in love, I have almost been killed, safa’s and BBQs, not a good mix, I have learnt to drive a scooter, I have got a tattoo and I have been back to Koh Lipe where it all began. 

     So to start with, after the 2 weeks of teaching practice we were told we would have 2 weeks to ourselves, to do a bit of travelling, and whatever we wanted. In the middle of these 2 weeks was the world renowned Full Moon party, so we decided to all have a massive blowout together before we had to go out into the real world of teaching, responsibility, early nights and being split up around the south of Thailand. After we had booked all this we were told that most of us would start teaching in the second week. Me and Kaley were told that we had to be back on Saturday to meet the director of our school, we had been chosen together coincidentally (we were actually chosen together despite sceptics in the group who think that me and Kaley get special treatment because we’re teachers pets, now those that know me know that I am not a kiss arse and tend to do the opposite and take the piss out of those in power over me), on Sunday. This was not good news as we had already booked our travel and hotel, and this was non-refundable. Luckily it was soon sorted so we could travel back on Sunday and meet the director on Monday; this meant that we only lost out on one nights’ accommodation and could not get truly wrecked at the Full Moon party.

     We decided to travel to koh phangang on the Wednesday before the party to have some time to ourselves and to get to know where everything was. We had only booked accommodation for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so we would have to find accommodation for 2 nights, we had been told before that there were accommodation touts on the ferry over to the island so we would use one of these. The tout we met was called shat, probably spelt chat and pronounced like the French for cat. He was a tout for a resort near where we had already booked and it was only 350 baht per night, had its own private beach and an infinite pool, it’s a deal, it’s a steal’ it’s the sale of the fucking century, fuck it, I think I’ll keep it myself. So we spent a few days alone which was nice to do. On Thursday some more people arrived and had booked accommodation on the other side of the island, next to where the Full Moon party was, so we hired a scooter, Kaley had said she could drive it, but when she tried, after having to ask how we start it, she nearly crashed into a tree, and swiftly decided that I would be the designated driver. Having never driven one in my live I was a bit nervous, but after the initial zoom off, when you don’t know how sensitive the throttle is, I was fine and felt confident enough to drive, luckily on our side of the island there were very little people so the roads were empty for me to fully get to grips with driving the scooter. So even though Kaley was not driving this did not mean she couldn’t be the cause of our problems with the bike. First of all we ran out of petrol, luckily rolling into a petrol station, then Kaley locked the keys in the compartment under the seat, so we had to push the bike to the mechanics, which was luckily only a 2 minute walk away, and when I say we I actually mean me. As we drove to Haad rin where the other were staying there were a lot of hills as you got closer, unfortunately our bike was not powerful enough to get us both up these hills, so again I had to push it up the hill, this time however there was fuel in the tank so I pushed it up the hill with the help of the engine. That night was a pre party for the Full Moon party at the others hotel; it was a pool party, so obviously we had to go. The pool party was incredible, met some really cool people, some idiots, and me and Kaley first said the 3 words every couple wish they can say to each other and get the same response one day. Kaley that night was incredibly drunk, I think a more fitting phrase would be ‘completely rat arsed’, this was partly due to making friends with a scouse bird and her welsh boyfriend, and being scouse she would half inch buckets off the side of the pool, we spent about 500 baht that night, buckets were 250 each, so that shows you how many buckets we half inched. The night after me and Kaley were a little worse for wear so we didn’t drink and had an early night to be fully up for the Full Moon party the following night.

     The day of the Full Moon party we drove over to Haad Rin to meet up with Salex (Sally and Alex), and some of Sally’s friends. We spent the day on the beach, not much in the sea as there were millions of little fish that bit you while you were in the sea. So the night of the Full Moon party arrived, me, Kaley, Salex, and their friends, all got raved up, neon clothes and body paint. Then we headed over to the coral bungalows where the pool party was a couple of nights before and where everyone else was meeting. We had decided on this as a meeting place because it was showing the Chelsea vs. Wolves game, and me being a Chelsea fan and Mike being a Wolves fan we had to watch it, Chelsea 2 Wolves 0 sorry Mike. So we headed to the Full Moon party, not all it’s cracked up to be, in summary:

· A lot of arrogant people.

· Being in a big group is a bad idea – people get pissed and wander off, and everyone has different music tastes.

· Spend all your time saying ‘No thanks’ to the drug dealers (either because you already have some or because you don’t do them, depends on your prerogative)

· Basically it’s just getting pissed on a beach.

· I'm not saying it’s absolute crap, just don’t go in a massive group, and definitely go a few days before the party, the pre-parties are better than the actual party.

     So after losing everyone and avoiding some people (some people are drunken mugs) me and Kaley went back to our room, had a decent few hours kip and woke up nice and early the morning after. We had breakfast, dropped out scooter of, and got to the ferry back with enough time to have a nice sandwich. On our ferry was also meant to be Matt and Salex, Alex turned up without Sally because she had gone missing the night before, she finally turned up still pissed at 11 and missed the ferry back. So on our ferry back was me, Kaley and Matt. The journey back to Hat Yai was not the nicest of experiences but we arrived safely and went to bed shattered, to be up for 6 the next morning.