Good Evening.

I am in an amazingly buoyant mood.  It's crazy, cos earlier on I was completely knackered and out of it, I couldn't even hold a conversation properly without falling silent or losing concentration.  It was annoying.  But now for some strange reason I have all the energy in the world. I feel like I could go for a run or a cycle ride or SOMETHING! I don't even know what.  I haven't drunk or taken anything alcoholic or drug related (as if I ever would) but something's switched.  I don't think that it's sleep deprivation driving me crazy, though perhaps exhaustion is playing tricks with me.  Either way GOOD EVENING everyone and I hope it finds you as well as it finds me.  Yes, I have cut and blistered hands, and YES, parts of me ache lots, parts of me are scratched and tired, but I am feeling great.
I am heading home for the funeral on Wednesday and due to some amazing miracle-circumstances I can do that without failing the Kayaking Instructor part of the course.  So that is also great. :D :D :D 
I don't know what else to say.

This afternoon was mad, we were constantly capsizing on purpose.  to start with we had to jump out of the kayaks/canoes to practise getting back into them from the water unaided, but then we had to practise capsizing every boat we had on the water simultaneously and getting them all back upright and emptied of water in the quickest amount of time possible.  We thrashed it out in 2.15 which was well below the target tie of 3 minutes.  Then we were in the pool capsizing a million times to practise rescuing each other... of course men being men this ended up in those of us not in the boats (the pool could only fit kayaks enough for half of us) sneaking up to people in kayaks and capsizing them then letting other people rescue them.  So much fun; tiring, but loads and loads and loads of fun.  Then we ended for the day.  So all in all a great day of kayaking and canoeing though most of the time we spent in the water.  It's great being in the water, even in the sea, the temperature doesn't really seem to affect me when I'm in a wetsuit.  You get the first cold-shock as it floods your wetsuit but then it's fine as the wetsuit does it's job and keeps you warm.
We also had an amazing game of kayak-canoe polo where the canoes (two-manned, powerful, big) were on one team and the kayaks (one-manned, small, manoeuvrable) were on the other.  I was on the kayaking team and we beat the canoe team (oh yea we did :D :D ) And that, also, was great fun.

So yea, all in all a great day.  As I said, hope everyone else has had an equally good time and I'm looking forward lots to seeing my family at home again on Wednesday.  Steve, if you're still up to read this, then I might also mention at this point that the last Eragon book (called Inheritance) is out in October :D :D :D Also Steve, keep that tie up and don't forget to thrash Josh on Fifa for me a few times as I'm not there to do it myself (yes, I definitely beat him at Fifa at least once...)  Mike, you watch that tie of yours, and I'm sure you haven't stopped trying to get Steve to lower his :P I'll see you Wednesday also... my room had better be exactly as I left it and if you've put ANY of the swimming-pool or cinema ideas into action in these last two months then I'll be having words with you (I know what you're like ;) )  And Josh... well.... not much to say to YOU! :P lol You should probably be in bed it's ten to nine you know, way past our bedtime.  If any of those sweets in my room HAVE disappeared I'll know where they'll have gone, but keep yourself well until Wednesday and don't get any of your frequent injuries.

So, for now everyone.
Good Evening. :D