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Alone

Well here I am, all alone for the first time on this trip, its funny because I initially thought that I might do this trip all by myself-and now I see how great and terrible it can be. For the first few days on the island I was with Noah and his friend Marcela, and we had a very nice time at a resort about a mile down the road from the main part of the island. The resort had their own little stretch of beach about 75 meters long with green, warm, salty, salty water. It was nice to sit in, but thats about it. The first full day we had in Koh Tao, Noah and I decided to do some fishing while Marcela got a temporary dive liscence. As it turns out, the fishing is not very good here, and we didn't catch anything worth speaking of, the only real memorable thing is the silence... oh yeah, and Noah got sea sick again. This time was funny though because it was as everyone was eating and the odd thing is that this trip had been so silent that no-one dared to break the silence even though the boogeyman was laughing into the ocean not three feet away, so no-one even showed that they noticed... The other notable thing about the fishing trip is the fact taht even though we didnt catch anything, the fishermen still sent us home with some fish, scratch that, a lot of fish, which the resort than cooked up for us as thai bbq. delicious coconut flavor wit grilled pineapple, which I subsequently drenched in the 2nd best sauce in the world, sweet thai chilli. MMMMMM... the next day all three of us woke up early and got on a dive boat, and miraculously Noah kept his breakie down... the diving was not too notable other than to say that we had to be warned about trigger fish... apparently they are very territorial and if they feel that you are invading their territory.. they will raise a spine on their forehead (do fish have foreheads) and attack you. word on the street was that one attacked Noah and marcella, but they didnt notice because it attacked their fins, fearsome fish!!! Anyhoo, because i am going back to Bangkok on a boat tonight I had to stick around Koh Tao one extra night while Marcella and Noah moved on to a national park where they will ride elephants, so I decided that to avoid lonliness I would move to the more touristy part of the island for the night. After chilling on the beach with Noah and Marcella, and having a bucket of songsam (some kind of alcohol) and coke I was finally by myself. As it turns out, lonliness can drive a man to do some funny things: I walked out to the main drag to see what was the haps, eventually I found myself seated at a bar across from what was clearly a prostitute playing connect four. Again, i was not about to buy what she was selling, but I was enjoying the smiling company and to tell the truth i couldnt beat this woman at connect four. It was maddening, we must have played 10 games and she beat me every time... and every time she would giggle and say again. eventually though I attracted the attention of a more aggressive hooker, who came up to me and grabbed at my crotch and said "buy me" immediately I jumped back off the stool and demanded to know what I had done to warrant this attention... the connect four girl only giggled and said "she like you." So I did what every man has to do in such a situation... I turned and walked away, only the crotch grabber followed, yelling "buy me, Buy me" while another one actually joined in yelling: "you want fuck!" (sorry about the profanity, but accuracy is paramount). it was bad enough that I had to duck into the only respectable establihsment that was open... an internet cafe, after a few drunk e-mails I thought it was safe to venture back out. this time I had to slink around the back of the bar with the hookers and find a place which catered to the backpacker crowd. Soon enough I was lounging with 3 sweedish girls drinking more buckets of alcohol and generally acting foolish... we remained there as we made more and more friends until the place shut down... but this is not where the night ended, oh know as I've learned backpackers only hang out in places where there is a club open all night (or after hours) so we trekked about thirty minutes down the beach to a cheesy club where I actually danced to some techno music. When I got sick of this and was satisfied that I had enough fun for the night I wandered out bymyself and headed back home. Of course no drunken adventure would have been complete without street meat, which was excellent. Fortunately this was not the end of my adventure, when I was almost home I stopped at 7-11 for a sprite to cap off the night... here I ran into one of the three sweedish girls that I had started off the night with, and she said that she wanted to get her tongue pierced... AS a bad influence I told her that I saw a place open on teh way from the club and that I would go with her and hold her hand as she got it done. Twenty mintues later we stepped into the most well light shack on the island where a canadian girl was drinkign a big beer and getting a tatoo, we interrupted the tatoo (the girl wanted abreak anyway) and gloria (the sweeedish girl) almost broke my hand when the needle went into her tongue, I was laughing because I thought that this was the last place I expected to be at 3 am in Thailand and because I was imaging myself waking up with a pierced tongue shaking my head... fortunately all my body parts remained without holes... after this i was sure that my night was finished... so I walked home and went to sleep happy. When I awoke teh next day, I shook my head, but not because of a piercedbody part, because the nights revelry had took its toll. I decided to check my e-mail, but my head was swimming and I got some bad news, so to clear my head and find somethign to do (because something to do is kind of like a friend) i walked around the island. About twenty minutes outside of backpacker heaven I found myself alone struggling up a steep hill and actually for the first time feeling as alone as I ever had, so to distract myself I startd to sing, might as well take advantage of the isolation and sign loud becauase no one could hear. When I reached teh top of the hill and I finishd singing all the songs I could recall, I felt good.. well a mitigated good, as good as I can feel when I am alone without anyone to be with... I decided that being alone is pretty bad, but that the only way to make yourself happy is to just decide that you are happy. AFter all, if you cant convince yourself that yuo want to be with yourself than you cant really enjoy being anywhere, so I gritted my teeth headed down the hill which will lead me to the boat which will take me to bangkok to see my parents, where I will not be alone, but I will still be with me.

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