10th July 2014

(A draft blog that Jen wrote and forgot to publish).

We've been busy  ..I've been Team Teaching with 6 Chinese.   A pretty easy time for me but very frustrating too.   As our Chinese instructors are only take 4 students by themselves  ..I jumped on to increase numbers.   The confined pool session was interesting.  Visibility was only around a one and a half meters and for such bad conditions, they did pretty well, the 3 students that I could actually see.  I wasn't too impressed with some of the skills though.  I find that most of the Chinese instructors are really aggressive and heavy handed with their students which I don't think is necessary.

Anyway, in the Open water  ..we all started the dives together but as soon as the skills were done, I was off.    The students weren't bad, a few issues with bendy legs but all n all, pretty good.  The biggest issues was that they were all over weighted, so after stopping and taking weights off every student, things were much better and we had a pretty good dive.   By the end of the course, they'd improved considerably.

Back off the boat, I only had a few minutes before I found out that I was straight back into the classroom, teaching OW again with 15 students.  Thankfully I was sharing the academics with an other instructor which made things easier..  Day 2, I was scheduled for academics in the morning and the confined pool session in the afternoon.  I managed the morning classroom session pretty well but struggled in the pool,   I was freezing, which is not like me at all.  By the end of the session, I was so cold and tired that I could have cried. 

...That evening, Si dropped me home and I've been in bed ever since  ..sleeping 20hrs or so for the last couple of days