Day 4

The only reason I know it's day 4 is because I knew I wrote the last post 2 days ago. Serious lack of time and day awareness here.
SO, what's been cracking?
Well, today is Sunday, and I last spoke Friday afternoon.
Friday evening we had another heavy one down at lotus bar which was ace. It was a lot warmer, and even though I've only been here a little bit I'm starting to feel like i fit in more and more each day... become part of the crew i guess. It pissed it down with rain in the evening which was NOT COOL and had to just accept the fact I was going to bed drenched.
Saturday morning I woke up at 9, which was about exactly the same time I was supposed to be at the dive shop to do some theory, so I pegged it down and was one of the first there... People working on Thai-time I guess. Did more theory and quizzes which were hard but slowly got to grips with it. Had to learn the whole maths of planning dives and the levels of nitrogen in your blood and other boring but really important things.
After that we got in the water again and did skills. My instructor Paul said I was really confident in the water - so I have you DAD to thank for that. I told him so as well. He's such a good instructor, GIRLS (Lisa & Carrie) you should learn your open water when you come out, it's such an amazing feeling, a million times better than snorkelling! My other instructor Paulo... well basically I got pretty drunk with him on the first night, and I think for the reason I can't look at him without giggling in the water which isn't ideal because water floods into my mask. I've managed to pin it down to the fact that he looks like the abominable snowman from Monster's Inc. Once there are pictures up you'll know what I'm talking about. And will agree.
So yeah, did my skills really well apparently. In the evening We had a free BBQ at the dive bar which was delish and a few beers, then down lotus for a can of coke because I was at the dive shop at 8:30 this morning.
Finished my skills which was all fine then had our test, which I got 90% in (wahoo), so was well chuffed. Dashed off to get some pad thai then left the dive shop at about 1 and drove accross to the other side of the island (the roads here are a joke). The view was absolutely magnificent. Those of you who have been here and have gone to the East coast will know what I'm talking about, but it's so pituresque it's unreal. The thing dreams (and postcards) are made of.
So did two open water dives today!! My equalising is a bit off at the moment because I've got a bit of a cold but still managed to go down to 12m and do all my skills fine. Paulo told me that I'm one of the students I don't have to worry about which is good because there are a couple of guys that really struggle. Also, I've got really good breath control I think, because on a 30min 12m dive I went from 200bar to 120, and Scott went from 220 to 70bar! (Dad you'll probably know what I'm talking about).
Didn's see anything amazing, the visibility wasn't great because of a sandy bottom but still...
bacjk to the dive shop for a BBQ, free shots and gave a couple of massages (I'm too tactile when I've been drinking). They've proved really popular, so that's be sorted for beers from now on!!
Am going to dash off now and head to bed (it's 10pm here and I've gotta be back at the dive shop @ 7am!)
Much love to all xx