no time no interenet

Hey everyone, sorry i've been so bad about posting on here. life is good. still making slow progress on my divemaster, i should have had it done by now, but i'm going to be here for a while and so i don't see any reason to rush through it. i'm going to try and take a few more tests this weekend.

Life is still awsome down here. the night before last ahnna, myself and a bunch of friends from the diveshop rented one of the Cayes for a night and had a party on our own island. it was amazing!!! Sandy beaches all the way around the island which was maybe the size of a football feild. we strung up hammocks between the palm trees and lounged around all afternoon sipping on rum and coke. There was a decent sized house with a great livingroom and kitchen and we prepared and BBQed pork, calamari, chicken and burgers. Sam and the people from the Utila Center for Marine Ecology showed up and went on a dive. i grabbed my snorkle gear and went with them. lots of parrot fish and a few barracuda. it was fun, when they started to leave the shallows i followed for a bit, then dove down to where they were and tapped sam on the foot, got his attention and asked how deep we were, he showed me his computer and it read 33 feet, not to bad for a free dive and i had a few seconds to hang out down there before i raced back to the surface.

That night we settled in for some good old fassioned drinking and debauchery. i think between the 14 of us we pollished of 8 bottles of rum. we started a camp fire and sat around it and chatted and had a few laughs that lasted until out sides and faces hurt.

well, i've got things that need doing, but i'll try to make a point of getting on here more often.

i love you all and look forward to seeing you when i get back.

an update

Hey everyone! Sorry its been so long again, i havn't felt very motivated to write. Life has been pretty good. A little less than Amazing for the past week or so due to a nasty respiratory infection that is circulating the island. I havn't been diving in a week as of this morning so i'm a little upset about that. Also ahnna and i had to move out of our nice appartment for the week of Semana Santa so we are living with the owner of Cafe Mariposa at the moment. Its a nice big house and there is interenet, but its always a pain in the ass to move. we were going to go to belize for this week. We decided to stay because it was going to be a pain in the ass to leave and because semana santa is a huge party on this island, not that we have been able to go out for any of it seeing as how we have both been sick. tonight is supposed to be a big night though, bbq's and beach parties so i think we are going to go out and see what its all about. we heard people going home this morning at 7am loud and drunk so it should be a good time. My divemaster training is still coming along slowly. i have one more assist to do and now i'm going to start taking the tests. I'm hoping to be done in the next 3 weeks.

Oh yea, incase anyone doesn't know, Ahnna and i canceled our tickets for the 14th of april. we are now planning to come home sometime in june. We'll see though, i'm trying to do this with as little debt as possible. our tickets are open at the moment. we have a year to decide when we want to come home so i suppose it depends on wether or not i can get a divemaster job when i am done with my training. I recently got a job bartending at a bar that just opened up i don't get paid squat really but i get free beer and food and it's bartending experience so i'm willing to work a bit. It started as a favor to my friend Harrison, now we just hang out there and goof off. The bar is dead most of the time, which sucks for our tips, but great for us to just hang out and drink and eat for free.

Oh and before i finish up this little update, We did see a Whale Shark. Yes, it was Awsome! maybe 18-20 feet long (half as big as they can get). The second time i got in the water with it i got to swim right above its tail for quite some time and when it dove i dove with it and the camera man that was with us got a great shot of me and the whale shark which ended up in the DVD for that open water class which i bought. Also the next week all the divemasters went out on a boat with dan the video man and goofed off and staged an underwater battle and did all the stuff that rolemodles arn't allowed to do when there are students around. i also bought that dvd, and i will share those with you as soon as i can figure out how to do so.

Its been a good time down here, sorry i havn't been writing more often, i'll try to force myself to write more frequently so i can keep you guys up to date. Take care of eachother!