I know posts are not coming very regularly at the moment.

This is because of various things..

1. I am busy! In between teaching, sort video work out, being everyone’s agony aunt, and having a sick wife… I seem to wake up go to work, then bed…  It may sound like I am moaning… well ok a little.

2. Internet has been crap. For the last week, we feel like we have been living in England.. Its been rainy, windy, and generally rough weather. Rough seas make teaching courses that little bit harder too… but thats our job..

3. Home plans…. When I haven’t been working, then I have been arranging our return to the UK… We now have a definite date and I am glad to say that we get home just in times for Roy’s birthday !!! YAY!!

Jenny and I will be leaving the island on August 15th to travel to Bangkok for 2 weeks. 2 weeks of hell for me as I am sure most of you know my general impression of Bangkok… so I will be getting back into the gym to occupy myself. Jenny has to have a couple of dental surgeries (hopefully the last)… and once completed we shall be flying back to the UK for at least a month.

I hope thats good news to most of you… and I can’t wait to have a beer with Broski on his birthday (you better have the day off Roy!)

x

SD

We’ve been busy  ..I’ve been Team Teaching with 6 Chinese.   A pretty easy time for me but very frustrating too.   As our Chinese instructors are only take 4 students by themselves  ..I jumped on to increase numbers.   The confined pool session was interesting.  Visibility was only around a one and a half meters and for such bad conditions, they did pretty well, the 3 students that I could actually see.  I wasn’t too impressed with some of the skills though.  I find that most of the Chinese instructors are really aggressive and heavy handed with their students which I don’t think is necessary.

Anyway, in the Open water  ..we all started the dives together but as soon as the skills were done, I was off.    The students weren’t bad, a few issues with bendy legs but all n all, pretty good.  The biggest issues was that they were all over weighted, so after stopping and taking weights off every student, things were much better and we had a pretty good dive.   By the end of the course, they’d improved considerably.

Back off the boat, I only had a few minutes before I found out that I was straight back into the classroom, teaching OW again with 15 students.  Thankfully I was sharing the academics with an other instructor which made things easier..  Day 2, I was scheduled for academics in the morning and the confined pool session in the afternoon.  I managed the morning classroom session pretty well but struggled in the pool,   I was freezing, which is not like me at all.  By the end of the session, I was so cold and tired that I could have cried. 

…That evening, Si dropped me home and I’ve been in bed ever since  ..sleeping 20hrs or so for the last couple of days

Time is just flying  …I don’t really know where the rest of June went to be honest and we are already on the 4th July.

It’s been pretty quiet at Crystal  ..I’ve been teaching a 2 person Open Water course with some English girls who are very good in the water but very ditsy on land and Simon has been teaching Marine Resource Management for a gang of Eco students.

I’ve cycled the odd evening but not enough by all means.

Tomorrow I have the day off, so I think I’ll clean my bike and might venture out with Kirsty to find a new hotel and pool to take advantage of 😀