Chilled out Friday
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 do my skill circuit with his new open water class. I needed to do a skill circuit above and below water for my certification so I put off studying for the day. I had to demonstrate all the skills in the class room and then again underwater. The skills include things like how to clear the regulator, regulator retrieval, clearing water out of your mask, and a few other things. In between the class room session and the confined water session I was able to finish up my Emergency Management Plan. It is a document I had to create with the procedures to follow if something bad happens on the boat. So while I didn’t get any studying done I was able to get three things that I needed to get done for my certification done. I had a good start on the dive site map that I need to do, but I didn’t save the document and someone borrowed my laptop to use while I was doing the confined water session and they shut down the computer. So I will need to start that over again. I fortunately had not been working on it for that long…so it is not that big of a loss.
I just got done eating my dinner and that was pork stir fried in garlic and pepper. I love thai food…I think I will miss the food as much or more than I will miss anything else here. I am going to head back to my bungalow and watch a movie then go to sleep.