scuba!

thursday night the 9th may, we had our theory lesson / session at the scuba shop. by then we were suppose to have read (studied) the scuba manual. being away in namibia, i hadnt had the time to finish. at the end of the lesson, the instructor says we will all be doing a questionnaire, just to see what we know and what we need help on.

so questionnaire done, marked and i did quite well. so relieved!

the instructor then says "since we all did so well with the questionnaire we might as well do our scuba exam now as well". i was so shocked! there is just no ways i could pass the exam now.

at the end of the exam, he took in all the papers and started marking straight away. i PASSED, yay! and i did quite well. so with that out of the way, the next step was the pool session.

pool session was booked for the 19th may at the tygervalley scuba branch. they have a pool outside where they do the lessons. i wasnt really worried about the pool session as i had done the dsd last year in a pool as well and it went well.

WELL, the pool water was f***** freezing. the wetsuit was too big, so the water ran in down my back. the pool was cramped and i could not get my balance right. i just couldnt get down on my knees at the bottom of the pool.

so i then moved to the other side of the pool, took a couple breaths, calmed down and then tried on that side with the other instructor. i managed to get down and he went through a couple of the skills with me. i was fine then. i then joined the group, but by then they were a couple of skills ahead of me, so joining them was kinda pointless.

one of the other ladies was battling as well, so the 2 of us went to the other side of the pool with the other instructor. she was battling a lot more than me and hadnt done all the skills i had done. she then surfaced and told the instructor that she wanted to get out, she didnt want to carry on. so now what? i couldnt join the group again as they were ahead with the skills, so i decided to call it quits as well.

so cross with myself!

i am now waiting to hear when my next pool session will be. hopefully this time it will be in strand and at the heated indoor pool. will be soooo much better i hope.

i just need to calm down, relax, not be fearful and enjoy it!