Skills, Class, and Sassoon

A blurry photo of burnt rice from the night before.

In the morning I officially evaluated Grace on her 20 divemaster skills in the pool. This is something I was evaluated on in my IDC just a little over a week ago. Half a month ago I could barely do these skills well until my IDC but now I’m evaluating someone on them. How crazy is that?

After the skill evaluations I ate lunch at McJims where I ate a fried rice special for 60 pesos. I realized I can eat four of these meals for the price of one meal at El Galleon. I’ve been spending a lot (relatively) on food and need to start saving a little more. More McJims to come.

At 1 PM I met up with Warren to do my Enriched Air (Nitrox) Instructor course. We met in the classroom, and he did his lectures. The course should only take half a day but we ran out of time to do the more practical exercises. Being in the classroom and having to do homework again reminded me of the IDC. It was the same feeling of going back to school after a nice summer vacation.

Boats in the sunset in front of Asia Divers.

As usual, I went to the Point bar for a happy hour drink. After that, I went home and watched some TV. I watched “Making the Cut” about Vidal Sassoon hair stylist academy. I guess you can make a reality show on anything by adding some drama, but I was most interested in seeing my old home town of Santa Monica.

The show takes place near 3rd St. Promenade right next to where I used to eat lunch frequently. Seeing the surrounding area on TV brought me a little back to my home town. There’s slight coincidences I have with the show too—I’ve eaten at the Hooters next to the academy, I knew someone who got a free haircut there, and we used to get phone calls at my last job at Sassoon Film Design for haircut appointments. The show became a small glimpse of what’s going around my old lunch time stomping ground.


- jason