Day 2 in Koh Tao

Soo... met everyone i'm going to be spending most of my time with yesterday
the DMT (dive master trainers) and instructors are all really cool, and the guy I'm doing the videographer work with is sound as a pound
went out with everyone last night for dinner and a piss up was awesome way of breaking the ice and just losened everyone up to chat to them about where they've been, what they're doing afterwards... etc etc. get some pretty amazing stories
one guy was supervising on an underwater film of great white sharks, and on exiting the cage, the boat got hit by a rogue wave and he fell off & got trapped between the cage and the boat. a barnacle cut through his wetsuit and cut his arm pretty deep and he broke a rib... with a great white encircling the boat... mental!
started the theory of the open water course today, which was about 3 hours of watching a really cheesy DVD, reading the dive manual and filling in all the quizzes
we've got another 3 hours of that tomorrow morning finishing the last 3 chapters of the dive manual and learning a little about planning our dives, followed by our first confined dive in the pool tomorrow afternoon
tonight is a big social with all the instructors and DMT's going bowling all night for 150 Thai Bhat (just over 2 pounds = bargain!) and tomorrow is AD (videographer) and Kim (DMT)'s birthday's so a pretty heavy one on Saturday, followed by free BBQ Sunday (helps the pocket. a lot)
my room is well nice and i have a kitchen so i can whip up some noodles of my own (thanks for the chopsticks Lisa - I've used them already), and a double bed so anyone can come stay :)
I'm going to hunt down some pad Thai (Thai noodles with chicken usually) now before heading out again... probs write another night in a few days when I've actually done some open dives (12-15m)
until then, hope everyone is happy and healthy at home
much love xxx