Day 3; am I wasting my time?

I'm bored!  Today I was on the afternoon shift, although I was wide awake by 7.30 so decided to get up and go to the beach, which is just at the end of the road.  The beaches here aren't as nice as the other islands Ive been on, there are lots of sand crabs, lots of rocky areas and since the tide comes in right up the beach there is quite allot of drift wood and debris.  I decided to take a walk and look for somewhere to hire a mountain bike, I'd heard there was a place about 2 miles to the north that hires them out, so that were I headed.  Eventually, just as I was about to give up, I found somewhere to hire a bike from, it cost me 500 Baht for a week, incidentally the same price as a ticket back to Koh Phanagan.  I haven't ridden a bike since I was about 10 years old, but its true what they say and I hadn't forgotten how.

So, now I had my wheels it was time to get back to the centre and get ready for work.  My shift past slowly, it was hot and hard work.  There seems to be so many people in charge. Everyone has different ways of doing things, which makes working out which is the right or wrong way difficult.  I started to get a little dishearten about half way thought the shift, when I was shown how to move the dogs from one area to another for the 4th time in two days... It's hardly rocket science!

After work a group of us went to a local restaurant for dinner, the food was good and everyone was really nice.  We got some beers from the 7/11 on the way back and drank them back at the centre.  Just before I went to bed, it started to rain hard and all the power went out, which is common on these islands. I just about summed up my day,

It's okay here, everyone is keen to work and help, and everyone is lovely, but I cant help but feel that I'm wasting the time I have in Thailand if I stay here for a whole month.  I just feel that I could be using that time to travel and see more of this beauitful country.  It was always the plan to come here and volunteer for 1 month of my 2 month trip, but my thoughts and ideas have changed allot in the last few weeks, I never want to waste my time, I want the most out of everyday.  I had hoped to at least learn something while I was here, and I'm not sure that that is going to happen.