I went from the boat to the classroom on my first day in Ko Tao and then spent the next 4 days learning how to avoid killing myself when scuba diving and learning how scuba divers have more fun than regular people, well at least according to the training video. This fun displayed by two divers doing their best three stuges impersonation demoing the ever so fun two finger eye poke and block.
Classroom antics aside we did do some diving as well. Two dives in the afternoon of our third day and two more the following morning had me hooked on scuba like the fish I had become. There really is nothing like it. Swiming with the fish, finding nemo, and some of his friends. Quietyly gliding throught the water allowing just a simple change of your breathing to move you through the underwater sanctuary.
Sigh, Egypt, the next place that I will likely dive, seems aufuly far away. And I can’t help but ponder whether or not I should skip out on meeting Steve at Angkor Wat and do my advanced dive cerification. Night dive and deep dive… (rubbing hairy chin in a conemplative pose) …erg.. decisions.