Sunday 13th May 2012 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Today the plan was to collect my stuff from Shana's and to try and extend my visa at the embassy. Afterwards I had plans to meet Shiran at 12pm at the beach for shisha. After getting up at like 8 I got ready and was informed by someone i was asking directions from that it was Sunday and the embassy was closed. Damn! So then I diverted my attention to my next mission - collecting my things from Shanas. Don't get me wrong, he is a really lovely guy and I was so thankful for all the kindness he had shown me but I just no longer felt that it was appropriate for me to stay at his seeing that he was acting like I was his wife or something and telling me he missed me - it led me to believe he has feelings for me and because thats what my instincts are telling me I think distance is the best thing. I do not want to lead him on in anyway and don't want to cause any uncomfortability for either of us. Therefore I sent him a text message asking if it would be ok for me to collect my stuff in twenty minutes. He replied once again asking me not to leave and apologising but said it was fine for me to go there but asked if I could wait until he arrived. I didn't reply and just got a tuk tuk to the house. I rang the bell and a man let me in. I went upstairs to the main living area where Shana's mum was watching television. I really felt awful not being able to answer her questions about why I was leaving, I really loved her to pieces, but I tried to just get in and out and told her my tuk tuk was waiting. I didn't feel great but just said I would come and see her soon.  I took my stuff to the Parisara place - I decided to stay one more night until I got all this stuff sorted, I dropped off my bag and then headed to the beach.  I got there earlier than Shiran so went to eat Chinese for my breakfast/lunch at a place on the beach called Loon Tao. The food was really good! I had stir-fried beef with prawns and rice.  I met Shiran afterwards at a place a couple of doors down. He was with Gayan - the guy that worked at the amazing hot chocolate place Shiran had taken me to the first time I met him. It was a nice chilled day drinking beers and smoking shisha. The shisha wasn't great so we went to another place afterwards where they made really good shisha - it was double apple and bit so a bit strong but it was good all the same. We ate pizza, I drank a mango milkshake and we chilled for about two hours. We then went to a bar called bay leaf where Gayan used to work. It was really posh and I felt like the biggest tramp - the staff there looked me up and down like i was riff raff!! I really was quite tempted to do a pretty woman on their ass and turn up dressed-up with makeup and my hair done then see how they treated me!! Lol! Anyway we stayed for one drink  and then went our separate ways.  They are really cool boys. I found out that the reason that Shiran no longer worked at Heladiv was because the manager had accused him of stealing and they had a bust up. So now Shiran was jobless and looking for something else. He said he was contemplating going to another country - his family background is Malaysian so he said his dream was to go there.  I got back to the guesthouse at about 9.30. I closed my door and then there was a knock from the old lady asking me what time I was leaving. She didn't look directly at me but instead over my shoulder into the room eyeing all my belongings?! I didn't know what that was about but it kind of annoyed me. I called my lovely mummy munchkin and got to speak to her and Mr Skinner which was cool.