This week was a bitter sweet one as my time in Sydney, Australia has come to an end. This one was filled with moments with friends and goodbyes for now. Yet, through the sad times the future holds many more memories to be made and they have already started in our new excursion in Carins.
This week I got lost. BAD.
The day had started as normal, class, work yada yada. But, on this special day I was going on a 2 hour quest to acquire a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra earbuds. Which after testing Trev’s and loosing my AirPods in Byron Bay, I had to get. This 2 hour excursion was daunting and the price was way too good to be true, but it had to be done. I set off on my journey from Martin Place, where funny enough I spot Alumni Tony Massaro again. I take the metro 2 hours to this place called Tallawong. I get out to this place and it was blazing hot and I am in unfamiliar land. It was very similar to a suburban town in America though. I get to the persons house exchange and trade and barter. Finally acquiring the goods. I planned the full thing to get there, but I had come to realize how was I to get back. I was 2 hours from home, didn’t know the bus routes and there was no one around to ask for help. This is where I used my high intellect and IQ to pull out the uber app and uber back to the train station. The day was saved I got way too good of a deal on some great tech and I was happy.
After the weekdays ended and we headed into the weekend we packed our things and said our goodbyes. It was actually a bit hard because what made this trip so memorable was the people. Yeah the beach and nice weather was cool, but I got to meet and build connections with people and experience things with them that I will remember for a long time.
We flew out to cairns and the weekend was filled with so many cool things, but the one that stood out most was the Scuba and Snorkeling. I have never Scuba dived in my life and I would say that I am a pretty fearless and adventurous person, but scuba is a different beast. Its unnatural. You’re not supposed to be able to breathe underwater. I go for my first dive and we do all the skills. I am great at it. A natural per se. I am swimming around the Great Barrier Reef 10 meter underwater looking at colorful fishes and coral. It was awesome. Then we get to the second dive. I make an overconfident statement I’ll preface this by saying I am in no means certified to scuba dive. I said that I could do this by myself and without a certification. I WAS WRONG. We hope in for the second dive, no skills test, no hand holding, just go. I am fine equalizing my ears and swimming and stuff, but then I feel myself starting to breathe very hard and feel very heavy. I start to freak out as we near the bottom of the ocean. At this time we are 2 minutes into the dive and I look down at my oxygen tank gauge and I am at 150 when we started at 200. NOT GOOD I say to myself. I then start to freak out more. I think am I getting enough oxygen? Am I good? I panic and swim up to the instructor to signal something is wrong. He checks me and signals to slow my breathing. I do so, but immediately signal I want to go back up by pointing up many many times. He reluctantly and disappointedly said ok. I could feel his disappointment in me as I was his best student. I get to the surface and swim back to just snorkel, but it worked out for the best because I was able to see a white fin tip reef shark and my scuba group didn’t.
