Arrival

After what feels like 400 hours, I have finally arrived and only one word can describe this feeling...HOT. It is so hot. Melt in an oven while bundled up in wintery-alpaca clothes hot. Saw Alejandra from Christmas as well as the dive masters and boat captains and had a super happy reunion! It is so nice to be back in this little paradise! One of the first guys to greet us is a Quebecer, go figure, who is doing his dive master here. He has been super excited for us to show up! And the other intern is this super cool lady from Seattle (thought of you Suzanne) who has qualified to the olympics 3 times in swimming, volleyball and tae-kwon-do! Yup, cool. Also, we are living in the staff house which means we are sharing it with two environmental science students from the University of Alabama. They are here doing research for 8 weeks (they have two to go) on species and coral stuff. Hopefully they are pretty nice people (they seem to be so far). Anyways, tomorrow we get to do the daily dives (with Kirk...yay!) and then we start the rescue diver course on Monday. It is supposed to be pretty heavy, from what Jesse (quebecer) said.

The first two weeks we will be doing a lot of dives and material and then in the last two weeks we start working on the boats and in the shop, etc.

Anyways, I know this all sounds brief but I want to go for a dive before the day is up!!

Cheers and stay happy!


View from plane of Cocoview, my new home!