Jilly does PADI!
Day 4- The big day
The course starts today and I didnt sleep to well last night, what with burnt bum and all. And of course, the fact that I couldnt turn my brain off. For some reason My brain decided to go over brief, demo, debrief of a fin pivot why? I dont know!!!
The first morning of the course has been all about logistics and of course signing lots of paperwork, yep liabilities!!!
This isn't so bad, I can do this. I am not in the purple group, so I will be OK. I keep telling myself its gonna be OK, even though my palms are sweating and I am gonna need a new DiveBunnie T-shirt, cos I dont smell too good at the moment with all the sweating, even though its freezing in the classroom. Yep I am scared to death!!!
In the afternoon, we are to go in the pool for our skill circuits. I'm not worried, I am good at skills, do them all the time.
The minute my head goes underwater my heart starts pounding, I can't breathe properly. I am thinking, I will have to change my tank half way through, and they will be unhappy with me, my mouth is dry! Oh lordy, I feel sick, cant remember how to do any skills. On my 5 point descent, I managed to press to inflate instead of the deflate WHAT AM I DOING?!!!!
The first skill is going to be a CESA. Which hand goes where? How many steps? How slow do i go? What if i break the surface? Its only a shallow pool. What if i hit the bottom? Can't breathe can't swallow! HELP me someone! I can't remember anything.
Got it - hand up to press deflate; hand up to protect the head; look forward; big breath in; make the "arrrrrrrr" sound and swim. Off I go before everyone else, is that bad or good? I dont know. James one of the PADI staff, is taking photos and swims head of me to get one of me. I swim back to the begining and really can not remember if I breathed in and out all the way! I hope I didn't cos that's not so good!!!! Now all I can think about is did I just fail cos I cant do a CESA??? - breathe in breath out breathe in breath out need a tape reminding me.
That was the worst skill circuit I have done since my open water course I think, nope, that would have been better, or so it feels. Time for my scores...... OMG I just got 5s for everything top marks, except a 4 for buddy breathing. I didnt hold on with one of my hands to the other person. I made it through. Rescue pratice next - that goes really well, cool I did something right today!!!
Lets see if I can sort the nerves out for tomorrow!!!!!
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