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February 12, 2003
get your dive on
finally broke down and am using the internet, at more then 10 bucks an hour, what a joke. anyways, been out here on utila for 6 days i think, yesterday i finished my open water dive course, and today i started the advanced course, which is the reason i`m sticking around. the diving is amazing, i love the hell out of it, my first open water dive was on monday, my birthday, a good way to spend a birthday. today i did the coolest dive so far, we went down to 30 meters, 100 feet, to check out a sunken ship. you drop off the boat and sink about 65 feet through blue water, nothing to see and it`s like your in limbo, then you see the boat coming up below you. so rad. i didn`t suffer nitrogen narcosis, which makes you feel goofy and drunk, though my instructor, a cool dutch guy named edwin, did. he`s a good teacher, and beat me this morning at chess.
pascual just showed up today with his belgique, too bad he didn`t get here earlier. rhan from israel is here as well, met him in omoa, he`s one of the best israelis i`ve met on this trip, super funny and smart. and of course i`ve been hanging out with my norwegian ¨harem,¨ as this canadian called them, clare and the two kristines, they`re funny and don`t talk in norwegian much at all when i`m around, just to make fun of me. we all came over on a cargo boat from la ceiba, a nightmare day that one, the ferry wasn`t running we waited 7 hours in the boatyard to get on the cargo boat where the crew made lewd comments at the norwegians and they cursed back in norwegian, it kinda scared the crew. clare would have been a good viking.
should be back on the mainland friday or saturday, might stay till saturday to hang out with pascual.
thanks everyone for the birthday emails, reckon i`ll read them when it`s cheaper.
ok off to dive class.
Posted by bendan at February 12, 2003 03:37 PM
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