Koh Tao part 2

Once I arrived back to Koh Tao I immediately noticed Pooh in the harbor and we left with her scooter. We drove first to her beautiful bungalow on the hill, not far from Sairee beach! I absolutely loved it!! So cozy and felt like home! Then she showed me where she worked at Sairee beach in this diving place almost at the end of the beach.

Steep hill to her bungalow

The view !! 

When she had to work I headed straight down to the beach to sunbathe. After like 15 minutes or so I was soaking wet so I left for a walk around by the beach. I ended up eating at this Eltoro place with wifi. She had promised me to use her scooter to get around more easily. Well, I had never driven one so I was nervous.. But I figured that it cannot be that difficult since so many people drive those things everywhere. I drove myself back to her place and up to that steep hill. My heart rate must have been like a million after I shut the engine and I was fine! :D Grabbing my gym clothes with me and I was off again, tho this time I couldn't start the engine anymore... There were these chickens coming from nowhere just where I was parked at! I laughed to myself alone there with me, the scooter and the chickens!! Hilarious! Anyway, after trying to start the engine for a while without any result, I gave up. (Only afterwards I found out that you need to take the stand off before trying to start it...) 

Nice warm out to walk to the gym. The gym was modern western gym with mostly free weights there. It was really expensive, I think I paid 200 BAHT for a one day pass! It included water and a towel. In that small gym there were 11 men and me. They looked at me just a bit when I entered the gym.. :D 

After the work out it had become dark and since I love stars I decided to walk to the beach and hang out there. I also went to a restaurant called Hippo bar. Then at around 10 ish I walked back to Pooh's place where she was already waiting for me. 

On a Wednesday morning I woke up facing the wall like 10 cm from my face and there were two small lizards there.. After absolutely freaking out and watching those for a while the eventually crawled down under the bed from the corner of the walls and the bed.. That was enough sleep for me and I went to take a shower.. Pooh had already left and I had to walk to the beach once again.. Down by the hill there came this young looking girl driving her scooter so I figured I might as well try to get a ride from her. The first thing she told me was that why am I going to the beach since it was a tide and there was no water on the beach.. I went for a breakfast and I got a message from Steve telling me that he was finally on the island and wanted to see me.. I was really cautious with him since after all we had only just met and currently he was with 9 of his friends. 

I told him that I'm gonna go to the beach if he would want to see me. I had been on the beach like 10 minutes when I saw him walking down the beach straight towards me.. I was so nervous! :D I ended up hanging out with him the whole afternoon. Since I was waiting for the French girl Emilie to arrive and we didn't have any place to stay and neither did Steve. So me and Steve went to this Wind resort hotel to get a room for three. Steve was traveling alone around the world but now he was having a holiday with his friends who were on a slightly different budget what came to hotels or restaurants etc.. 

Then we walked to Pooh's place to pick up my stuff and the rest of the day we hang out by the pool waiting for Emilie to arrive and catch something to eat together. When Emilie arrived she was a bit surprised of the whole situation since only like five days before we had been traveling together in the northern Thailand and now there was this guy hanging out with me.. She obviously she had plenty of questions for me to answer... But I guaranteed to her that we where just friends and nothing really going on. Didn't take long since I had to eat my words.. 

In the evening we all left to walk on the beach with our beers with us. We ended up at the end of the beach sitting on these huge rocks listening to live music from the close by restaurant, talking and admiring the starry sky. Rather soon we had to move since the water was raising really really fast and the rocks were getting under the water. 

We walked back to our hotel and there was some party going on near by which ended at 4 am so only after that we were able to get some sleep.