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Advanced Divers

I’m hung over as shit right now, so let’s do this…

So the other night after our first two open water dives, we are invited to join the crystal dive staff at a farewell BBQ at a bar called vibe. While there, we see Liran and his GF, as well as some other dive masters and divers. A few beers, some laughs, and some free BBQ later and we cal it a night since we have a 7am dive time.

Oh yeah, before we head out to the bar, we go by the bungalow to drop off our stuff. Well, I see a black cat in the dark right next to us by the front door and I say “oh shit” very softly. At just the next second, James sees it and after hearing me say oh shit, thinks it’s some kind of dragon creature and let’s out a scream I’ve never herd before while jumping beck a few feet. I fell to the floor outside the front door laughing for a good 5 minutes (it was that funny!).

So the last couple of days we hammered out our advanced certification with Liran which included navigation, deep dive, wreck dive, naturalist, and ending it with a crazy night dive certification.

So I’m gonna skip over a lot of stuff and head right to last night, where the booze flowed like water. We start out at the safety stop pub next to the pier with some buckets (sang sum with a lil mixer). Soon our british friend shows up and not too long after that we head out. We head to sairee beach and proceed to smoke hukah and drink long islands. After that, we Succesfully attempt to get trashed while playing connect four against the bar tender at the next bar (yup, I had the longest winning streak - 2) and low and behold who shows up at the bar? Liran and Ruth, our dive instructor and his GF. So awesome. We continue slamming buckets and playing pool until Liran has us follow him (just like our open water dive) to another bar with quite a few lady boys. I tried to hook James up with one but he wwas set with some girl thats from the states but lives in shanghai. We walk down the beach, all hammered (Fiona especially), and come across another bar where we befriend a monstrous lady boy. Several beers later and we head back to the hotel where James bangs that shanghai chick (too graphic?) while I hid behind a bush (ask for details).

The last night was a perfect end to a perfect stay on koh Tao. Now were waiting for our the ferry back to the mainland. A total of about 10 hours of travel today. Hopefully I can write my paper!