Sunday, May 18, 2008

13 Meters Under (1)



Rene (the middle one) came to experience diving, Queenie and I are the hardcore entry level open water divers, are seriously after the license.
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I packed up my backpack again and set out for my quest of entry level open water diving license in Kenting. With the high speed railway, I arrived in Kaoshiong within 2 hours. My cousin, Sandy, came to pick me up, we had nice seafood dinner in the night market. I was really anxious about my diving lesson the next day at 9am, which is still 2 hours bus ride away from Kaoshiong, didn't get too much alcohol in my system. My cousin, Sandy, is a real cutie and still looks 14 though 22 years old. Seeing her sleeping soundly in her shorts and tan top, man, it is really good to be young. Jealousy made me wake her up without mercy, I forced her to get ready and drive me to the bus station at 5:30am.

Traveling alone is actually a very nice thing, you don't really need to seek approval from anyone, the only person you need to please is yourself. It is a strange type of sense of freedom, hey, I am a big girl now, I know what I am doing. Backpack proved to be very useful, improvising changing transportation or changing direction is not a problem at all.

I arrived in the diving resort place and my instructor is still asleep because there has been some mess up in my reservation. Nevertheless, I proceeded studying the courses in the morning with the assistant instructor, Tony. Tony was a bit timid, guess that's because he was still painting woman's face a couple weeks ago (he quit his job as a make up artist).

I pretty much learnt the chemistry and physics about diving after the first 2 lessons, was very eager to expericne the dive, at least that's what the video tape tells me.

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