No class work tonight, because it was test night! Mommy Becca was after me all day to study. I'm not sure exactly how many evil eyes or questionable growls I received today, even though I explained how every time she checked on me, I happened to be on a break. All the times she didn't come check on me, I was studying! I'm slightly embarrassed, I probably should have studied more. I barely passed with a 97%! Okay, it was pretty easy, though I am slightly embarrassed I missed three. One was a trick question, one I should have known and didn't think about it enough, and the last was a blind guess (I definitely never read that answer in the book...but I have to be honest towards the end, I skipped around in the book).
The pool work tonight felt more like work. I've reached the point where the pool isn't fun and I'd much rather be in the clear waters of the Caribbean chasing fish! The first drill was standing on the edge of the pool with fins and mask straps around your left arm while holding your scuba tank in the same hand, then taking a giant stride off the edge of the pool yelling "Naui" and sinking to the bottom of and putting all your gear on. I'm sure yelling "Naui" was the most important step. I can't help but wonder if this is really training for if you happen to fall overboard while on the dive boat, on the off chance you happen to be holding all of your gear.
The second challenge was going to the deep end with everybody, removing the tank and vest and slowly one by one the instructor would inflate one of the vests sending the tank to the surface and requiring us to share air. The two trouble makers (the twelve year olds), didn't last too long, but the eight of us stayed down with only three tanks. I would have liked to see us try with only two, but I guess we did good enough because the instructor called it a day at that point.
Just have the open water dives next weekend and I'll have a shiny new dive card!
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