January 14, 2012
I have to admit it has been quite hard to keep up with the blog; or actually to find anything interesting and worthy of blogging.
Last Friday, our house got broken into big time. They broke the back door while we were out and most of our stuff is gone: all three of my housemate's iPods, dSLR cameras, wallets, bags, cellphones...All of us were quite shaken, and I have to admit our boss has not been the most supportive person during this situation. What followed for me was as good as an episode of CSI. I was right in the midst of the action, and I knew I was stepping into something much bigger than myself. I have been at the police station every single day this week, but I have agreed that everything needs to stay confidential so I will not say more. All I can say is that I have done a much better job than them, and basically solved the case for them. It is not closed unfortunately, but we are still keeping hope it will soon be over.
All is well at the shop like always. I am still trying to figure out if I like being a divemaster or not, and I have to be sincere, I don't think I do. I am so thankful to live this experience, but now I can fully realize I don't really want to be a divemaster and I have stopped looking for jobs in that field. I do love the diving and showing people around and being on the boat every day. I do get really lovely clients, and a couple have told me their dives with me have been their best dives ever. However, there is so few of these nice people to counterbalance all the annoying or harder ones. Way too many times the dives are stressful because the clients are simply open-water so they need to be watched very carefully, or I need to make sure they have a good buyoancy, or enough air, etc...And sometimes, you get the very moody ones, making a scene because I did not bring them deep enough for their own liking.
So even after I get a "it was a great dive, thank you so much" from the nice persons, I still feel like it's not enough for me to want to actually do that as a job.
I do love the opportunity to experience life in the shop though, which I really like. I also really appreciate all the diving knowledge I get out of this experience, and I definitely feel like a better and more knowledgeable diver now. Everyone at and around the shop is amazing. We hang out with them and play dominoes with them after work. Dominoes is the big national game, and all the locals play it all the time.
Time is going by way too quickly. We only have 6 weeks left here. 6 WEEKS! How did that happen? Soon enough, we will all be saying goodbye to each other at the airport. The new GVI interns have started today their adventure at Cap Ternay, and we have had the chance to meet some of them while they were staying in Beau Vallon. We talked a lot about base and reminisced about some of the great memories we had there.
I have to admit it has been quite hard to keep up with the blog; or actually to find anything interesting and worthy of blogging.
Last Friday, our house got broken into big time. They broke the back door while we were out and most of our stuff is gone: all three of my housemate's iPods, dSLR cameras, wallets, bags, cellphones...All of us were quite shaken, and I have to admit our boss has not been the most supportive person during this situation. What followed for me was as good as an episode of CSI. I was right in the midst of the action, and I knew I was stepping into something much bigger than myself. I have been at the police station every single day this week, but I have agreed that everything needs to stay confidential so I will not say more. All I can say is that I have done a much better job than them, and basically solved the case for them. It is not closed unfortunately, but we are still keeping hope it will soon be over.
All is well at the shop like always. I am still trying to figure out if I like being a divemaster or not, and I have to be sincere, I don't think I do. I am so thankful to live this experience, but now I can fully realize I don't really want to be a divemaster and I have stopped looking for jobs in that field. I do love the diving and showing people around and being on the boat every day. I do get really lovely clients, and a couple have told me their dives with me have been their best dives ever. However, there is so few of these nice people to counterbalance all the annoying or harder ones. Way too many times the dives are stressful because the clients are simply open-water so they need to be watched very carefully, or I need to make sure they have a good buyoancy, or enough air, etc...And sometimes, you get the very moody ones, making a scene because I did not bring them deep enough for their own liking.
So even after I get a "it was a great dive, thank you so much" from the nice persons, I still feel like it's not enough for me to want to actually do that as a job.
I do love the opportunity to experience life in the shop though, which I really like. I also really appreciate all the diving knowledge I get out of this experience, and I definitely feel like a better and more knowledgeable diver now. Everyone at and around the shop is amazing. We hang out with them and play dominoes with them after work. Dominoes is the big national game, and all the locals play it all the time.
Time is going by way too quickly. We only have 6 weeks left here. 6 WEEKS! How did that happen? Soon enough, we will all be saying goodbye to each other at the airport. The new GVI interns have started today their adventure at Cap Ternay, and we have had the chance to meet some of them while they were staying in Beau Vallon. We talked a lot about base and reminisced about some of the great memories we had there.
Is that first photo of an eel? Because that is awesome!
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