Conquering Fear - Deep Water

 Who would have guessed I would be talking about me entering the deep water!?

Well, I've made great strides the last couple of years to really enjoy the water.  Learning how to swim, learning how to surf, snorkeling, kayaking, and now... scuba diving.

Today was the 1st (night) day of scuba certification, and supposedly the hardest, getting to know the gear was the easy part.  There was a swim test!  It was so hard since I hadn't really been swimming and such.

So the test:
-Swim 200 meters non-stop (not too bad, sorta sucked without a warm-up)
-Swim 50 meters underwater - with 1 breath (pretty easy - I have great lung capacity)
-Tread water for 10 minutes (this sucked so hard)

Treading water for me is the hardest - for those of you (Team Jet) who have trained with me in the water - especially the UH pool, know that I just sink to the bottom, it was really really hard for me.  Everyone else was talking, playing games, while I was there struggling staring at the sky trying to stay above water.

After that the rest was easy.  It was assembling out gear, getting in the water and going through exercises.  Breathing with the apparatus, finding the apparatus while underwater, how to remove water from your mask while underwater, completely filling your mask with water and clearing, removing your mask completely and putting it back on and clearing. then helping our your buddy who is out of oxygen, then getting use to having all the gear and finding your buoyancy. 

Sounds short, but our session today was from 1800-2230.  I was so cold in the water.  Weird part is, I wasn't cold anymore when I left the water.

I'm finally home, blogging and exhausted.

Eeps!  MBA interview tomorrow - wish me luck!

Mahalo for reading.

Until next time.

Childhood Recollections & MORE Adventures

Growing up, one of the things I never got to experience was celebrate a birthday at Chuck E. Cheese - and I still haven't, but the next closest thing is to go for Rowena's 30th birthday!

Yes, I acted like a big kid (yes - probably like I normally do) and ate pizza, drank coffee, played games and of course... rode in the rides

 Who says you're too old to have a great time at Chuck E. Cheese?

Thanks Eric and Aubrey for driving and Rowena for celebrating your b-day there (what an awesome idea!)!

The next day was crunch day (today) with the special help of a special help (no that kind of special) of Michelle Morales.  We whipped through my things, sorted out many things, packaged many things, even had time for lunch and a power nap.

Of course, that was exhausting... what better way to treat yourself to relaxation than a Deluxe manicure and pedicure at Sophisticated Nails.  Yes, she got all the calluses out of my running feet!

Then off to Himalayan food!  How delish... I think it helped that it was B.Y.O.B. and we had lots of bottles of wines!  Needless to say that the food was gone.

As if that wasn't enough... it was time for a late night movie - at the Movie Museum... Not just any movie - a French movie, Monsieur Batignole, movie was great, quick summary, it was about a man (reread title) and Jewish boy during WWII - watch it, it is a touching and endearing story.

All these activities during the weekend!? Banana boating (see previous post), BBQing, eating dim sum, Chuck E. Cheese, Mani/Pedi, Himalayan Kitchen, Movie Museum.  All of these things are great, but one of the things that I am starting to realize are all of the amazing friends I will be far from once I move to Florida. 

 

Mahalo for reading. 

Until next time.