We Be Divin

The title say it all. We finally made it to Utila and have been here for almost a week now. Today we went on our first official dive, two actually, down 12 meters and about 35 minutes each. The last two days we have been watching educational videos and taking quizzes but today it all paid off. Finding Nemo means so much more to me now. We have two more dives tommorow, 18 meters, and then we are officialy certified as PADI SCUBA divers and can, technically, go rent some SCUBA gear and go diving anywhere in the world.
Aside from that, Utila is a Carribean style place. Many of the people sound like a stereotypical Jamaican. The entire economy is based on eating, drinking, and diving. It can be pretty hot here but, there are plenty of places to go swim so its not too much of a problem. There are also sand fleas and they are extremely uncivilized and will bite you at their whim.
We are down to less than a week left, at least two days of which will be spent in a bus, so time is short. I wish we could stay longer, or had come earlier because they have all klinds of cool diving classes you can do once you finish the first one, but, we have to leave sometime. Even though it is fun here we are running out of excuses to clelebrate and I think it may be time to do something more ¨productive¨ and or ¨responsible¨ So, It isnt so bad to have to come back home after all. We miss being around people we know and speaking English, consistently, as well. I will be glad to see you all again soon, until then.