School and Scuba School

Okay, So I have been sucking at this blog thing. I have not said anything for over a week :-/. Oh well, you really haven't missed too much. I have just been going to school, doing "homework", hanging out with Hayley and working out. Just everyday life stuff like that. I have not ran another 10K (6.2 miles) yet but maybe on Thursday I will be able to get that done. I am going to try and run a 10K once a week while I am here. I know some weeks I will miss it but I am going to try and stay on top of it. I just ran 7K (4.2 miles) today and I would do a 10K tomorrow but I have to do two more scuba dives to finish up my certification so that will tire me out enough.

So last week nothing really exciting happened. At least nothing that I can think of right now. I am just trying to get all of my assignments done so that I can take time off of school when Ian gets here to hang out with him and not let school get in the way of enjoying my time with him. It is pretty much going to be the best feeling E-V-E-R to get to see him. Once he gets here it will be 3 months that I have not seen him so I know we will both be so excited. I already know that it is going to be such a good feeling. I am so lucky that he is able to come visit me! I am pretty sure I will be the happiest girl in the world once he gets here. SOOO, that's not for another 25 days so lets just not talk about quite yet.

Last weekend I was supposed to finish up my scuba certification and do my four open water dives. It was supposed to work like this: dives one and two on Saturday and dives three and four on Sunday but unfortunately Saturday the current was too strong to dive so on Sunday I just did dives one and two. It was pretty much the worst experience of my life. I got sea sick and puked the whole entire time. But that didn't stop me from being able to finish my tasks. I still half assed all of the stuff that I had to do even though I was so sick. I think I lost 5lbs. Once I went under water to the coral I felt better and they said that is supposed to happen but once my head hit the air again and my body was still in the water I was just sick again. I will finish dives three and four tomorrow and I got a pill to take. I will take one pill tonight before I go to bed and I will take the other one in the morning right when I wake up. Then I should not get sick again. Dives three and four are supposed to be a lot easier and there are not as many tasks to get approved so as soon as I get the few tasks done then I can just explore the coral and look at the fish and stuff (I think and hope). On Saturday when I was by the coral our group saw a sea turtle and I saw a jelly fish. The sea turtle was really awesome, I think it was a baby. It was still big but just not as big as some others. I couldn't take a picture though because they don't let you take cameras when you are still doing your intro dives because you are still learning everything and another thing attached to you would just make things difficult because you still have to learn where everything is and stuff.

Right now I am certified enough to go with an instructor every time but after tomorrow I will be certified with a card and I will be allowed to go with out an instructor. I think when I go to the Great Barrier Reef with Ian I will go with an instructor because as of right now, I don't feel good enough to go by myself.

I'll talk about today now. Since today and yesterday I finished two assignments all together and I am going to try and get one more done before I go to New Zealand on Friday. I also worked out with Krista this morning and I ran 7K's and then I went to the Pharmacy (Chemist if you are an Aussie) and got some pills to make it so that I am not sea sick.

This afternoon at 1pm I met my new friend Felicity. She is going to be studying at Saint Norbert next semester and she is so awesome. She lives in Australia but will be going to the states in August so she can do a semester there. We actually have two classes together here and we have been working out at the same time at the gym almost every day and just have not noticed each other. We met at the school at one of the Cafe's and got a coffee and talked about school and stuff. She is really excited to come to SNC and I am so excited that she is coming also. She is going to love it and I am excited to show her around the states. I will take her to Chicago and Indiana. I wish I could take her to Montana but I will be taking a J-Term over winter break so by the time I go to Montana she will probably be back in Aussie. So it was really nice to meet her, I am excited that I am going back home with a friend :). I am actually going back with lots of friends, haha! I'm pretty lucky! I feel so lucky and blessed everyday that I get to have such an awesome experience here!

Okay, I will post another blog right after this telling you what I am getting myself into starting Friday and for two weeks! Its quite a treat :)!