A normal day at last

So round two of today’s blog. Today was actually a pleasant day. Woke up at 7:30, had a nice shower, popped into town for coffee and posting the old blog, then stop off at home for further ablutions, a quick plate of rice and eggs at Fishy’s and then over to Sunshine for 10:40. Enough time too to even get a couple more knowledge reviews out of the way. Almost done the knowledge reviews.

Tomorrow I have to map a dive with Carroll and Ted. Things are coming along swimmingly….tee hee. My goal is to have my DM complete by December 15 so that I can move on to my instructor’s courses. Hang on. Map a dive site? Has anybody noticed my references to almost zero visibility so far? This should be an interesting exercise in futility. I suppose if we can pass our DM skills in these types of conditions, then we should be bloody brilliant in perfect conditions. I suppose what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…..except I am not such a big fan of mixing “death” with diving. Seems like juggling with a razor sharp set of handleless knives to me.

So, finished a couple of reviews and then it was off for the afternoon dives. I was helping Emily again today with her open water student on her last two open water dives. Sadly for the student, the visibility today was the worst it has been so far. I couldn’t see past her fins and I was RIGHT behind her. And she had to do a few skills while we were out there. I felt a little bad for her. At least I am here for a while and will get to see nicer waters (fingers crossed).

And it was sunny all day!! Bummer.

Back to the resort, wash and dump my gear, home for a shower and then to the pub to get internet connection. All in all not so bad a day. Tomorrow morning I am out for a run early, then some studying, then more dives. Things are fairly quiet, so I hope to take advantage of it to get some of my exams out of the way. And work on my business plans for when I return.

There is another event tonight, although not a 30th this time. A celebration for a group of assistant instructors passing their exams. I’m currently drinking a diet coke. I don’t think my drinking will extend much past that tonight. A couple of days ago should see me though for a little while. Except there is yet another event tomorrow night over at the Ban’s bar. These ex-pats need to slow down!!

Now there have been some requests for photographs to be posted. I have a bberry cable, so I will try to download pictures from the camera onto the laptop. I have no idea how to post pictures into the blog, but I will see what I can do. Now I just have to take some pictures.

I also took the opportunity to register with the Canadian embassy in Thailand today, seems a smart thing to do with the civil unrest currently taking place in Bangkok. Although outside of the occasional comment here and there, not a single bit of it seems to be affecting anything here.

So my first day of relative normality. Not much to report today space rangers, but I will be back tomorrow…..