Shopping

Early afternoon fishing.

I woke up in the morning with a hang over. I walked down to the local store to buy 6 liters of water. I drank about a liter. The heavy rain from the night reduced to just a drizzle (in California, we would call it rain though). For the day, I decided to do some shopping for a wetsuit and groceries. I also needed to get my scuba regulator repaired because it corroded.

I first went to the Asia Divers dive shop to look at their wetsuits. The lady there had me try on one that I didn’t really like the look of. Additionally, it was extremely tight fitting but she said it was normal and that it will stretch. I know a wetsuit will stretch a little, but not that much. The wetsuit was $250 USD and that was the only size.

I shopped around and went to see the wetsuits at the dive shop I planned on getting my regulator serviced. They had a wetsuit that I liked but not in my size for only $59 USD! They weren’t selling the brand anymore so they had to liquify that brand (Aqualung). I had them order me the correct size and send my regulator in for repairs.

I ate lunch at a small “international” restaurant that eagerly offered me their free internet while I waited. I ordered some satay and check the internet. About half hour later, I realized I haven’t got my food yet. Turns out they never placed the order!

After lunch, I went to the local market to get groceries. It’s at least twice as expensive to eat here in Puerto Galera than Alona Beach. So, I need to try and eat out less. The market had most of the things I needed - rice, pork and beans, corned beef, oatmeal, salt, and meat. It’s actually much harder to get meat in Alona Beach than here. I guess because there’s so many more foreigners here. I later dropped off my groceries back to my room.

I got my books, and headed straight to Asia Divers and studied in the classroom in the “iDap College”. Another part of the resort that just trains instructors. All it is though is mainly a classroom. I studied there for 6 hours straight and it was hard to concentrate.

- jason