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		<title>Quick update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[not a whole lot going on at this point. I have just been relaxing the last few days for the most part. I am down to only needing to do a couple more things to finish up the divecon cert. So I will easily be done in time.
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		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>ugh&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well my laptop is dead&#8230;the back light in the monitor has been going for awhile now and it is finally just not working any more. On the plus side it did everything that I needed it to do while I was here and other than posting blogs I don&#8217;t really need it any more. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academics are done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished doing my final lecture. I did 20 minutes on decompression sickness. Last night I did a 10 minute one on a BC. A BC is what you wear when your diving to help you with your buoyancy. Now that I am done with my lectures I will get back to diving and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Passed the exam!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a 95% on the Dive Master exam!!! Now the hardest thing I have left to do are the two lectures that I need to give. I am doing the first of them tomorrow that will be 10 minutes on a BCD (buoyancy compensation device). I have just under two weeks left and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Chilled out Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I slept in a little bit this morning. I headed down to the school to grab breakfast from the AC restaurant with plans to go back to my bungalow and study all day in preparation to take the exam this afternoon. I was sitting at the school eating and Neil (my instructor) asked me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A change of pace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t dive today so I spent the day studying for the exam. I am going to do a bit more studying tonight and tomorrow morning and I should be ready to take the exam tomorrow. Other than that not a whole lot went on today. Even though I was busy most of the day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This didn&#8217;t post last night for some reason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been diving straight for at least a week or two and its starting to catch up with me a little bit. So I am taking a day or two off from diving to catch up on some much needed rest. I will use my time to work on some the requirements that don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Tuesday in review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I slept in this morning a little bit. Then I got up and did the homework that I should have done last night. Last night I was super tired so opted to watch a movie instead of doing homework. But it got done in the end so it worked out ok.
I went out on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Another full day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got up early again for the morning boat. Went back to Chumphon this morning in hopes of seeing a whale shark again. No whale shark this morning, but it was a really nice dive either way. On the second dive we went to Japanese gardens and I worked on making a map of the little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=107</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a jammed packed day that ended with no internet. I got up at 6 am yesterday to get on the morning boat. We were heading to a dive site south of the island when it came over the radio that a whale shark had been spotted at the dive site north of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanmatthew.com/thailand-blog/?p=106</link>
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