Merry Christmas from Caye Caulker!

Its already been six days, and in some ways I feel like its been two, cause I've had soo much fun. And on the other hand it feels like weeks, cause so much has happened.

Currently in Caye Caulker, a small island of the coast of Mainland Belize. For those who dont know about it, then the island is really small, has lots of cheap rum, white sandy beaches, palm trees and everyone here looks like they are taking out of a Bob Marley music video. Total Rasta Style. Its great.

prior to that, I had spent an entire night in Seattle airport talking to this american girl, Kristine, who was volunteering straight after highschool, through something called AmeriCorps, where you go to somewhere else in the states and volunteer. she was working in an elementary school in a poor area. really interesting midnight chat. Her monthly food budget was 60 USD and she didn't have any health insurance at all. She was just betting by on good luck. Quite weird for me to think about. |So yeah,m I finally caught my flight in the morning and made it off to cancun.

I spent 2 days in Cancun, which were quite dull so I need not elaborate here.

I then went south down the yucatan peninsula to a place called Tulum, where I spent two night. Had an awesome time there, went scuba diving in 2 cenotes. Cenotes are basically million year old sink-wholes or caves, with the most clean and clear water. Visibility is about 100m, which is extreme for scuba diving. a really cool experience diving around in this underground old caves with flashlights and checking out cool rock formations and Halocline and other interesting phenomena.

Monday i tried to make my way to belize. The border crossing is the slowest in the world. But a bit funny. at customs the rasta(yes, they had a full on rasta working with custusm) guy checked the bags of the guy before me, and then when i came he asked where I was going and whether I had any alcohol or tobacco on me, and I had to admit that I had half a bottle of rum -and asked if that was ok ..and he was like "yeah, fine go on". So no checking of my bag.

Anyways, we got delayed a lot, so we had to spend the night in belize city. by this time were were a group of 10 people who all met on the same bus and we were all going to caye caulker. So we joined together and found a nice guest house in an otherwise sketchy town. (belize city is quite a dodgy place, especially at night). We had a great time though and caught the boat here yesterday. spent the day on the beach, had lobster for dinner. Rum for desert, and more rum for midnight snack. its all in the rum . .

today we're going fishing and snorkeling with this local fisherman and tomorrow Im going to go on a big scuba trip to the blue whole. itll be great.

I cant be bothered(or afford) to send out individual emails to everyone, so if you read this, consider this a christmas greeting. internet here is SO slow and quite expensive.

Cheers!! and go slow. enjoy life!

ps. I hope some of this made sense, but its so warm in here and the sun is shining. so cant be asked to correct all my errors. ciao.