Vela Luka, Croatia As planned, when the post office opened in the morning, I sent a package of my unused stuffs home. Since it’s Fourth of July, Storm and I had been talking about having a BBQ to celebrate. I went to purchase the food […]
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Day 68: Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite
Vela Luka, Croatia So my suspicion was correct! The bloody apartment had bed bugs I thought I noticed some weird bumps and then today I saw two bed bugs crawling around. I got mauled all over my arms, legs, neck and face over the past […]
Day 67: Gameplanning
Vela Luka, Croatia I planned to send a package home today from the post office. I had with me some diving manuals, wetsuit and diveskin that I won’t be needing anymore. I decided to also rid myself off the Pacsafe Wire Mesh 85L that I […]
Day 66: Another Rider Up in Flames
Vela Luka, Croatia I didn’t go in to the dive center today. I spent the morning with Adam and David at Nautica Restaurant drinking coffee and Karlovacko while using the internet. I wrote Marjolein that I quit the internship and explaining the situation. I even […]
Day 65: Leave No Stone Unturned
Vela Luka, Croatia I woke up today knowing that it’d be Adam’s last day at the dive center but had no clue it would also be mine. The weather was a bit gloomy today. I had to lead dives in the morning with a team […]
Day 64: Oh No, Oh My!
Vela Luka, Croatia Today was a weird day. I was on boat duty in the morning and then I went back to the staff house during lunch time to eat. Mikey and David walked in. I thought they were also both on lunch break but […]
Day 63: Tellin’ Stories
Vela Luka – Blato – Prizba – Brna – Smokvica – Zavalatica – Cara – Pupnat – Korcula, Croatia David also had a day off today so he and I rented a scooter and off we went to check out the island. We took the […]
Day 62: Truth About Robots
Vela Luka, Croatia As I had written, I talked to Bobby a few days ago regarding my desire to quit the internship and just paid for the last month that I’d owe him. The work here had been hard but I thought it paid off. […]
Day 61: Shipbuilding
Vela Luka, Croatia Storm and I had a day off today. Originally we decided to rent a scooter and go cruising the island. However, we ended up sleeping in then do our knowledge review homework since we’re never able to get around to it on […]
Day 60: Octopus’s Garden
Vela Luka, Croatia So we got ourselves octopus from the market for BBQ tonight! None of us had ever prepared octopuses (octopi?) before but hey, one can pretty much google anything these days. Andy did a bit of research and ended up preparing the sauce […]
Day 59: Row Row Row the Boat
Vela Luka, Croatia A bunch of things happened today making it an easy blog entry day. I had my normal dive leading in the morning and then my navigation specialty course with Storm and David in the afternoon. To practice using the compass, Billy had […]
Day 70: Ferry, Train and Plane
Vela Luka – Split – Zagreb, Croatia 5:30 in the morning, I was on board the ferry in the rainy morning, heading to Split. By 8:50am, I was on a fast train towards Zagreb. So the gameplan was to head out to Zagreb and spent […]