Morning shift.. For the first time since I got here I was late for work, I over slept by 45 minutes... At home that would of totally messed up my day, but in Thailand things like that don't seem to matter so much, we're on 'Thai time'. Despite my extra hour in bed I was still tired and couldn't really get going. I cleaned out the dog and cat cages in the recovery area, then the 'Happy Cat House'...I'm not a fan of cats, or their litter trays, give me 20 stables to muck out over 3 litter trays to empty any day of the week. The smell of cat piss make me want to vom!
Later I held a kitten while the vet removed her stitches, she had been savaged by a dog a few weeks ago and basically had to be sewn back together. Her wounds have healed well but she now has cat flu. Cat flu is a big problem here, most of the cats in 'isolation' are there due to the nasty virus.
Anna and I walked a couple of dogs on the beach. Anna is from Italy, we get along really well. We both have tomorrow off and decided to make the most of it and book a day trip... We're going on the Four Island Tour, which, you guessed it, it a tour of four local islands! I can't remember the names of the islands but the pictures look good! I'm hoping the weather behaves itself though as its been cloudy the last few days..The tour includes snorkeling, so we need good weather to get good visibility.
Just before the end of my shift I did my first tour of the centre... When tourists come to visit we give tours, we explain the history of the charity, show them around the centre and let them walk the dogs and cuddle the cats. There is no charge for the tour but they can donate money at the end if they wish, obviously we encourage this. The centre runs entirely on the profits for the TIme for Lime cooking school and donations from the tourists. Today was the first time I had given a tour, I hate things like this, speaking in front of strangers not my thing. The people I had to show round were a couple from Russia. The guy was totally disinterested and the woman cried most of the way around, she felt sorry for the dogs with three legs. At the end of the tour we are supposed to show the Lanta Animal Welfare video, its a short video explaining how the centre started and how the money that is donated is used to help the animals. My Russian couple didn't want to watch the video, the woman was to upset, they put some money in the donation box and left very quickly.
After work, Anna and I ate at the local market, which sets up at the end of the street each Thursday afternoon, then went to book our day trip for tomorrow. It cost 750 baht, about 17 British pounds, a small amount of money when I'm at home, but a large amount now that I'm in Thailand... It had better be worth it! After booking the tour we went in the Saladan, the local town... We looked around the shops, Anna bought a few things, I didn't as I need to save the money I have left to get me through the last few weeks of my trip.
When we got back to the centre we went into the kitchen, Alison was on the sleep in shift. I was talking about my shrinking bank balance and joked that I was going to start taking over people's sleep in's for 500 baht a night, Alison said she would give me 1000 baht to do her shift tonight, I said yes, so now I'm in the kitchen ready for my 2nd sleep in of the week. I'm hoping some of the others will want me to to theirs to... I'm going into business!
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