Spare keys please

As the days go on it is slowly becoming easier and easier to sleep until first light. We are slowly adapting to the time change and even becoming a little less bothered by the constant crowing of roosters. Today we started at the dive shop at 8:30 where we had a discussion on discover local diving, which is one of the classes we will be able to teach when we are done. Fortunately for us this really just became a discussion about why and how you would go about setting up and running this class. Then we discussed how to judge conditions, such as spotting current, what tide changes affects, and a little about making the call when it's ok or not to dive a site. It was followed by a dive at chocolate island (I didn't catch how it got it's name). I guess this is not a very popular dive site, which really makes me wonder what the popular ones look like. To me, it was an excellent dive, it felt almost like being back in Fiji, except there really were not that many fish. The corals on the other hand were phenomenal all kinds of soft and hard corals in countless colors, absolutely breathtaking. I wish we could have brought our camera, but we are not allowed to bring it on any of our training dives. Eventually there will be opportunities for that in the weeks to come. We returned to the dive shop with just enough time to put our gear away, rinse off and eat lunch. Then it was time to get our gear on the next boat. This time we were doing a certified diver lead, luckily for us we got to play the role of freshly certified divers and did not have to do any leading this time. Basically there were 2 of our fellow dive master trainees (DMT's) that switched off who was in charge (the divemaster), this was at the instructors discression of course. Jeff and I along with 2 other DMT's got to be the divers being led and we were all given background stories. While Jeff and I were freshly certified open water divers, the other 2 each had about 10 dives, so overall we were all to play as a very inexperienced group of divers. We were then given things to purposely mess up to see how the "divemaster" would handle it. This started before we even got in the water, someone's fins were all of a sudden missing a fin strap, this was quickly resolved and it was time to jump in the water. Jeff had been told to have an uncontrolled descent (flapping around on his back) while I was to try and descend with the snorkel in my mouth instead of the regulator. These issues got resolved and when we reached the bottom, one of the other divers had bouyancy problems and was crashing into the bottom. Then throughout the dive we would be given more things to do to see if the "divemaster" noticed and how he reacted. This ranged from Jeff having a flooded mask and panicing to someone else swimming off in the wrong direction and so on. Overall I would have to say the 2 DMTs in charge handled most situations pretty well, but it was an eye opening experience for what we have coming up in the near future. Once again we returned to the dive shop, rinsed and put away all of our gear. Then headed off to our room for a quick shower. We got ready to go back to the dive shop for dinner but just as Jeff closed the door to our room, he realized he had locked the keys in the room. No big deal we will just go to the dive shop and get a spare to open it back up. Well that seemed like a good plan until we found out that the only key they had for our room was the one that was locked in it. Jeff went back to the room to try several keys while I waited at the dive shop and got them to print out the lease agreement for our new townhouse in Hawaii Kai. It turns out one of the guys from the dive shop ended up having to break into our room to get the keys out (we won't be making that mistake again). So Jeff came back with the keys and we signed the lease for our new place (YAAY) then had them scan it and we sent it in. So it is official we now have a place in Hawaii. We sat at the bar above the dive shop and had a couple drinks to celebrate. There were several other DMT's around so we hung out and talked about the day's dives and things to come. Unfortunately we still had lots of bookwork to get done so we made it another short night and headed back to the room to read as much as we could fit in before the book cast it's sleeping spell on us. Before starting in on our reading, I did have a chance to skype my mom prior to her going on her vacation (Florida and a Carribean cruise). It was nice to chat with her for a bit and get caught up on my nephew's birthday and family information. It was a little glitchy and it is hard to get a strong internet signal so we conversed while I was in the common area of the housing unit. Hopefully I was not too loud as it was 8:30 PM our time and about 7:30 AM her time. Tomorrow it's back to the dive shop at 8:30 and we are working on mapping a dive site.