W Koh Samui Retreat Ko Samui

... they know I'm the boss
The place has been pretty quiet for a couple of weeks and my wee pal is on holiday too but just when I thought I was getting bored, He shows up. It's good to see him and have someone other than Her to boss me about. I was worried he was trying to intice me into juvenile delinquency cause He bought me a brick and I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with it and as I've been saying, am ...

... Andrea's search for pizza ended in complete disappointment, despite our stops at ten 7-11's on the way back to the hotel. Sadly, Sparky did not show up to guide us home. Andrea is convinced he would have led us to pizza.

This morning, we boldly got up at a reasonable hour and discovered our hotel served complimentary breakfast. For some reason, we were never told this and assumed it was not included. We ate quickly because we ...

... evening literally talking **** with strangers. Oh, and chain smoking Marlboros, of course.

Before long the night of the Full Moon Party was upon us, and the run up involved an hour or two spent in a bar on the headland called Eden. For this venture Gina and I were accompanied by some of our fellow Sanctuary-ites, including a 17 year old Californian called Ryan. We were less than enthusiastic about playing guardians for the evening, and within about half an hour our ...

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My decision to finally get certified came down to one thing: teacher development. I really couldn’t give a rat’s ass about grades, degrees, or gold stars in the corner of my papers. I wasn’t just smearing frosty pink icing on my resume. Certification was part of an ongoing process. It wouldn’t end with graduation. I have reached the age where I must admit that I have fallen into teaching as my profession. I never planned on it. Teaching was ...

... choice? I have learned all that and so much more during those 12 weeks. I know now that while my expectations of the course did not manifest, the experience surpassed any expectation I could have had because I just did not know to expect such glorious expansion. I have met many beautiful beings during the training, Some taught me by modeling what I'd like to become, some taught me by modeling what I want to let go.  And while I'm aware that the latter teaching is not as ...

... chill on the beach and snorkel. We kayaked back to the main boat and headed back to Nathon port in Samui. A really great day. Got back to Lamai to check out my photos. Maybe laughing at the German woman in the water backfired on me as my camera decided to pack up on itself, I had taken loads of great stuff which seems to have gone, now I'll have to remember the views myself and not in photographic form. So when I get to Bangkok in a couple of days I'm ...

... new. It could be fun, right? We found a path with a sign saying 'Kung Bungalows' and turned the bike down there. The path was easy, trees shaded us from the strong sun, we felt we were in luck. Ohhhhh, no. The first obstacle was a steep and nasty-looking downward slope. Oli was convinced we could make it, but I was a wuss and made him park the scooter and we walked down. Even WALKING down was difficult. We both kept slipping on the pebbles and nearly falling on our butts ...

The story goes that way back in the year 1971, two tourists arrived in Samui via a coconut boat, stumbling upon paradise. If they were to revisit Samui today, in particular Chaweng Beach with its wall to wall shop til you drop packaged commercialism sense of paradise, would they have a sense of regret at their pronouncement to the world. Did Christopher Columbus later have a similiar feeling? Granted, the beach itself, situated along the Gulf of Thailand, is ...

was planning to get off the island and meet the german and argi birds for new years in bangkok, but decided to stay here with the auzzie guys. so pretty much every day has been getting hammered on buckets, and dancing on a huge podium, it slike a war here, everyone has slings, from falling off bikes, black eyes, or limping from falling off the podiums! the music on the beach has been ...

... opposite to it. Bangkok is hustle and bustle with traffic and pollution. Ko Samui is palm trees and beaches with cocktails in hammocks. Myself and Caroline instantly liked it. The weather was glorious as we touched down and even the airport in Ko Samui turned out to be really beautiful, styled like a beach hut with plam trees and the lot. We were staying in the Chaweng Beach Hotel, which is just beside Chaweng beach. It is the ...