Jilly does PADI!
Day 8 - Wanna go to bed and cry
Yep, as you guessed by the title, today was not a good day for me. So much for my last sentence yesterday, that it wasnt a hard course, just your nerves get the better of you. Well that was true today, along with me just basically getting it wrong!! In the pool this morning, I had Rescue skill, Panicked diver who is out of air. My briefing went well, nerves under control. Did the demo, no problems, pulled two of the students out to perform the skill and it all seemed to go so fast from there. Sam had his hand over the purge button and I didnt see it. This goes as a missed problem so I got a 2 for the score in that section. That means I get a 4 over all. Luckily it is a pass, but I am so mad with myself. How stupid of me to miss it, I had even said in the brief "Dont forget not to do that!!!!!" I liked the way James de briefed me- he said "not to think of it as a negative, take it away as a positive and when one of my candidates does something similiar, remember how I felt and even tell them the story to help them.
Then this afternoon I had to give an IDC prestentation. And if I do say so myself, it was a really nice presentation, I even felt good giving it, wasnt to nervous this time. But alas, I didnt say something right in my introduction, (not keypoints this time) which means I lost alot of points there. Sometimes when you look at the marking, its kind of frustrating, I get it and I know my stuff, but one slip can really mean it knocks you back. I just hope the examiners can see that I know what I am doing, and I get on alright in the rest of my stuff.
By the end of today I just felt like curling up on my bed to cry or banging my head against a wall. But what will that change? Apart from giving me a really bad headache or making me wake up in the morning with puffy eyes. So, no point in either of those. Instead, I opened a Facebook group and enjoyed playing with that instead. So what do I learn from this? - well I now remember what it feels like to do an IDC from the sick feeling to the wanting to cry. Just hope I get the really happy feeling that normally follows an IDC when they pass.
I also am sure this place has mini earthquakes cos I keep feeling the earth move but everyone says its just me. And no JImmy didnt come with me you dirty minded people!!!!!
So tomorrow is a half day for those of us that are doing the PADI O2 instructor trainer course. And for the others they get a day off, I am now wishing I had a day off but its only half a day so not so bad.
It can only get better they say!!!!!
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