Scuba diving Day 1

10 Jun

I escaped the typical craziness in Hanoi to come to Nha Trang for a SCUBA certification. So far I have just spent two hours in a pool and watched an hour of video, but tomorrow I am going for my first dive… .I just have to take some decongestants because I could not equalize my ears today and my instructor told me it was because I sleep with air conditioning on. I never realized that sleeping with AC was a faux pas, but I have found that expats in Vietnam really look down on it. And now its making me not able to SCUBA. But actually, I don’t think I have ever been able to equalize my ears by blowing through my nose. I barely knew how to blow my nose until I was a teenager…uhh

So far, the most important thing in scuba diving is remembering to breathe. Never hold your breath. It is disconcerting how you can hear your breath through a machine, but I can’t help but connect it to yoga and to my mom’s perennial advice for me: BREATHE.

I haven’t had a very yogic attitude lately. I went to a yoga workshop last weekend but left perturbed and antsy because I had paid a lot of money and did not feel at all satisfied. I spent all week in some sort of fluster.

Who knew I would find the reminder I need in a scuba diving course? Breathe. breathe. breathe. It seems like it should be obvious….

Wish me luck! I really don’t want to end up with the bends or some other freaky scuba accident.

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Jon 14. Jun, 2010 at 9:34 pm #

SO jealous … ((

I MISS YOU! Come visit us in Boston lady lady.

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