A Travel Blog
A little delayed I’m now ready to tell about the final challenge of the divemaster course: the snorkel test! I did it two days before leaving the island so the chronological order on the blog is a bit messed up now – my apologies.
Somehow it had ended up being a bit hyped up with so many people asking me all day if I was nervous about the evening.
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I’ve said my goodbye to Koh Tao.. No let me refrase that as I’m becoming more and more certain that it was not a goodbye but a “see you again”. The question is just how fast I’ll be able to return?
It wasn’t easy to leave all the awesome people I’ve met over the past two months and seeing Koh Tao disappear in the horizon was a lot harder than I imagined it to be a couple of weeks ago!
Now I can finally tell you about one of my favorite things I’ve done on Koh Tao: driving around on my bike! I’ve kept it a secret because I actually like my family and didn’t want to give them seven weeks of worrying about me crashing. Continue reading
Yesterday after two very good morning dives where I assisted on taking out fundivers I sat down with Course Director Chris (who’s taking care of the DMT program and looking after all of us DMTs). We signed my application for PADI, shook hands and had the mandatory Facebook picture taken and by that I was suddenly a real divemaster!
I had planned for a relaxed afternoon in preparation for the snorkel test last night (which I survived and will tell more about in a few days – apologies for breaking the chronological order the next couple of days) but whilst sat with Chris I was asked if I wanted to take out a fundiver for the afternoon dives meaning that I would actually earn money while diving.
I have only three days left on Koh Tao now.
[Pause for reaction.. or am I the only one who’s freaking out about it?]
So with a quick glance at the photos I’ve taken recently it seems like this post should be about some of the parties we’ve had – the party photos outscored the diving photos with 14-3 out of the photos that are worth sharing. So I’ll save the diving pictures for later and instead start telling you about the surprise party we had for Ashley the other night (well it might be a week ago in real time but Koh Tao time is different and does it matter anyway?).
Although I’m not leaving Thailand for another 11 days it’s becoming obvious to me that my time here is slowly running out. I have finished almost everything I need to do for my divemaster course and only have one last thing to do (besides the dreaded snorkel test). I have to take out at least one person doing a Discover Scuba Diving course which is a dive for people who just want to try diving without doing the full Open Water course. I will of course be supervised by an instructor while doing it.
I had no idea that my passion for scuba diving could be decreased by anything but it turns out that way too many days with being thrown around on the boat due to strong wind and freezing both in and out of the water combined with assisting a really annoying group of Open Water students did the trick.
A few days ago high season definitely kicked in here on Koh Tao. This means big groups of students starting courses every day and therefore loads of oppurtunities for me to assist. So a couple of days ago I started assisting a new Open Water course. This time I’ve chosen (crappy timing now that it’s so busy but whatever..) to also participate in the classroom stuff. Or participate might be an exaggeration as I’m not doing anything besides listening – it’s only for my own sake as I want to gain even more experience on what it’s like to be an instructor. Continue reading
I apologise for the silent treatment that I’ve given the blog lately, it’s just so difficult to blog while being underwater but I’ll try to keep my head above water for long enough to write this post (and also not much exciting new stuff has happened so don’t worry you haven’t really missed out on anything just because I’ve been busy breathing underwater).
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