Hello

We left Krabi and went to Phuket to watch a surf competition. When we got to the beach on Saturday morning there were massive shore dump waves which were coming right up to us. It wasn’t safe to swim then so we spent ages make a fortress to stop the waves. It didn’t work very well though as the waves kept washing over it and melting it so then we would rebuild it again. It was really fun though.

We watched some of the surfers, the first heat was for under 12s, and it looked really hard. Some of the surfers were about the same age as me.

I wish I could surf like that.

Throughout the day there were lots of acitivities to do every hour. At 1 o’clock there was a free short surf lesson. Me, Sylvie and Noah did it and at first we were up by the markets under the trees in a group of about 7. We practiced standing up on our boards before we got in the water. They pushed us to see which leg we used to stop ourselves and that showed if we were normal or goofy. We were all goofy! When we actually got into the sea we split up and had 1 instructor each. My instructor was called Jon he was really nice. First of all he asked me to try and stand up on the board but I accidentally stood up too quickly and fell off. You’d think it’s easy to find your balance but it’s actually really hard – but I found it in the end. I only fell off 3 times. Twice because I just fell off and once because an adult surfed into me. Annoying adults!

I enjoyed it so much that afterwards we booked an hour long surf lesson. Noah didn’t do that one though. I got tired towards the end so I finished early and had a swim with mum.

After my surf lessons I had a henna tattoo on my arm. It was of a whale with swirlies around it but the day I’m writing this it’s nearly gone 😭