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Yipeeeee!!! Just checked and the US state department has officially removed the travel warning to Hong Kong and China!!!!
The dive master course is going really well. I could probably be done in about a week, but will probably stretch it out for another two or three.
Really enjoying being here now.
Lots of Love to you all!!!
-- Bindu
So I'm still on Koh Tao (turtle island) in Thailand. I completed a bunch of scuba courses, wasn't sure if I was going to do the dive master course or not, so went and dove some. The visibility has been really bad for the last couple of weeks, so I have been focusing on skills rather than the lovely life under the waves (most of which I haven't seen while diving.) I have been out snorkeling 3 or 4 times, it's lovely! Much freer than scuba in someways... and less free in others ;) and I have been able to appreciate all the fishes that are not visible when scuba diving.
I have to figure out my visa situation, but assuming I can get it sorted, I'm planning on doing the dive master course, probably starting in the next few days. I have been mostly doing nothing (reading, watching movies, eating, sitting on the beach :) and I finally figured out yesterday that I'm waiting for something, but don't know what... and that pissed me off... Had a few ideas about what I might be waiting for... passion seems to be the most obvious thing... Other things too... mostly it feels like a habit... So, I'm going to sort out some stuff to do. Still leaving myself time for reading, movies, hacking, etc... just want to get a little structure around my time... seems like as much as I don't like structure, some is good...
I feel like I'm rambling... not just in this email, but inside... In some ways I feel really lucky to have space to ramble inside :)
I have a small photo gallery of my first week here to which I will add some footage of my open water course (up top and underwater) and I promise (really) that I'll get it posted in the next few days (I'm not really promising any of you, I'm promising myself so I dont' have to think about it anymore ;)
A couple of Nancy's friends were on an island near here and came to visit for a couple days. We had a lovely time! (Props to Zoe and David!)
I've been thinking about Nancy a lot, 'cuz she's revising and I know how much that sucks. Lotsa love to you darlin!!!
Internet here is super expensive, but I finally found a reasonably priced place near my hut so will try to keep in touch a bit more. Although I'm not posting here much because there isn't much going on...