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 😀

Last nights cycle was hard but really good.  Only half a dozen of us turned up.   It’s brilliant that the group go out every night.   I can certainly see myself getting fitter as time goes on.  

Whilst waiting for a couple of the gang, one of the guys took me to a view point, ‘Two Wheels’  It was a 5 minute cycle up a track and then couple minute walk up a really steep section of road  ..and then a small climb   ..The view was incredible  ..the pictures I’ve took with my phone don’t really do it justice.