Nervous as a quivering bean

So arrived in Thailand. Trip over was fine, night on Koh Samui and then an early ferry across to Koh Pah Ngan. Party island lots of fresh young thangs out for the full moon, half moon, quarter moon any possible moon party time. A few of those fresh faced young thangs asking how to get to the parties. I at 30 ish was able to say I believe you will find them at Haad Rin I am heading to silent retreat. I felt very old. Got off the ferry and found a pickup heading out to Ban Tai where the Wat and the bungalows I was to stay at were. Another girl close by heard me say I was going to stay at Dew Shore and said to me "I was going to stay there but now I am going to another place close by". She got into my pickup and quietly declared she was off to do a retreat at Wat Kohw Tahm. I was delighted to find someone else doing that and not out to party and we chatted all the way there. She went off to her bungalows and I to mine and we said we would find each other later. Just an hour later I was wondering about trying without success to find her bungalow and met her on the road as she was trying to find me. The place was very quiet and I think we both needed someone to chat to. We spent all of that day together and the next. Drinking beer, dreading silence. She had a copy of the book accompanying the retreat and was able to show me the timetable. Up at 4am and then 15 hours meditation until bed at 9. I cannot believe that is going to be true. No way. Cannot accept that fact. We met up to register for the retreat and it was true - oh my what a rigorous timetable. More beer urgently required. We went back to Tong Sala to buy sufficient clothes to cover the socially unacceptable shoulders and knees, drink beer and worry more about just what we are getting ourselves into. We have agreed to meet for breakfast tomorrow to spend those last few minutes of precious conversation with someone as terrified as each other.