I have decided to stay in Koh Tao until I go back to work and begin my divemaster training. I have a long way to go since I just started diving but it has been such an amazing experience so far. I have rented a place for my stay here and a motorbike which is just to much fun. Today was an extra special day, and sometimes getting up at 5am is worth it to catch the morning boats. I saw a 3 meter (10′) long whaleshark. It was a very magical experience however I am looking forward to the day when I get to experience this creature with just 2 or 3 other people rather than the 40 others that were coming up from dives and checking out the whale shark on the surface! So grateful for how I am currently able to live my life!
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Koh Tao has been all sunrises, scuba diving and sunsets. I have been here for about a week and half now. So far I have gone through my PADI open water certification and my advanced dives as well. The PADI was a lot of learning and practicing skills but it was enough to push me to do my advanced training as well. I began the advanced course on my birthday and it consisted of learning more buoyancy control, such as maintaining control while even floating upside down! We also had a navigation course in order to learn how to get around divesites on our own. Then to top of the end of my birthday we went out for a nightdive. This was probably top 2 of my dives so far, it was so amazing to go from just when the sun was setting and then out of nowhere you look around and its almost pitch black except for everyones flashlights! The amount of colors that reveal themselves during this time compared to the day time is unreal. I couldn’t have imagined a better way to spend my birthday! The next day we continued the course and did a 30m (100′) dive just to learn how to get down that low and see how it feels. The visibility wasn’t great but it prepared us for our final dive which consisted of going down between 25m and 30m in order to explore an old US warship from WW2. The visibility again was not that great but we got to see something from a very important time in human beings history. We also got to swim through a small section on the top of the ship! Very fascinating so far!
I am continuing my training with a rescue course tomorrow and have been contemplating just staying here and continuing to learn until I go back to work sometime next month!
I wish I had some pictures of the underwater section of this but I don’t have a gopro or anything so I will be trying to get footage off of other travelers that I dive with over the next few weeks!
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Stayed in Chiang Mai again for a couple nights while waiting to go to the elephant sanctuary. I met up with a couple people and we decided
to go to the water park at the Grand Canyon. I always enjoy activities that allow me to run around acting like the little kid that I still am!
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First night bus trip from Bangkok to Chiang Rai (about 12hours). I was a little hesitant at first upon seeing the seats and how much I would be able to sleep. I actually slept a majority of the ride and lucky me we had massage seats! First time I have every seen a bus with massagers built into the chairs. I actually ended up missing my stop (or at least the attendant thought i did), but lucky for me Daniel, who was sitting next to me, offered to take me to his house for breakfast and then drove me the 10 miles to my hotel! By far one of the best meals I have had so far since getting to Thailand and one of the nicest people I have ever met!
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Went to my first of what will probably end up being a million temples. I was pretty thrilled to find out that its ok for you to bang the gong.
Its always exciting for me to go to other areas in the world and see what types of trees they have there. The tree growing back towards the ground from its limb was called a ficus religiosa. So incredible how nature can warp itself in so many different ways.
"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food,
warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to
those who wield an axe to cut it down" - Buddha
Leaving Bangkok tonight and heading up to Chiang Rai!
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Bangkok Birthcontrol
In case anyone is looking for creative ways to keep their kids from making babies I suggest putting them on a 16 hour flight from New York to Taiwan surrounded by children. I think they were taking shifts just so we weren’t lulled into a false sense of security that there might be silence for a few moments. Sorry mom but looks like you’re going to be waiting a long time on those grand kids.
I’m going to be trying to keep this up to date at least while I am traveling around. Figured it would be the easiest way to keep more people informed of whats going on. My grammar will probably be pretty bad, but thank god for spell check at least.
Starting off in Bangkok, but as of now I should be traveling around Southeast Asia for 2 and half months then back to China for work!
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