mac-a-licious

this morning, whilst in the throes of re-organising my office and getting my shit together, i decided that i really did need to get a printer.  i’m anticipating that i will pass my IE and along with working for my number one job from home – there might be...

OWSI day 5

it was the final day today!!  and i am writing this up after a few beers at swashbucklers to celebrate … we had academic presentations first thing this morning and then a big day of theory and course presentations from our course director pete. my presentation...

OWSI days 3 and 4

yesterday was another full day in the classroom and we presented our prescriptive teaching academic sessions. we used the Rescue Diver course for material and it took a little more thought than preparing for an Open Water session but in a good way.  when you are...

OWSI days 1 and 2

yesterday was the first day of the Open Water Scuba Instructors portion of our IDC.  and it was a long long long day. pete did damn well to hold our attention for as long as he did – but 8 or 9 hours in the classroom is a huge chunk of work to get through.  even...

AI day 4

today was the last day of our Assistant Instructor course and it was the best so far … and by far! we started out at Lake Pupuke with our open water session presentations. we had each been given two skills to prepare and the two we had worked out well.  alex...