You might find you asking yourself... where the hell is Bonaire? Well here's a map:
So what really am I doing here?
Well, after graduating from Cal, I couldn't stand the thought of an office job. And I wanted to travel. And I love diving. (as well as the following: beach, the tropics, foreign girls, foreign beer, and living someplace that isn't the states, which was sucking the life out of me every day I stayed there). So, naturally it all boiled down to becoming a dive instructor and travel the world teaching scuba diving as well as conservation practices.
Now this does involve a bit of work, believe it or not. Currently I am only a rescue diver (the third major rank up in PADI- Professional Association of Dive Instructors, you can read all about it here) and have thus gotten a Divemaster internship to advance my skillset. I work for 6 weeks for Dive Friends Bonaire in the dive shop/assisting with classes/etc and in return I get dive shop experience and trained for divemaster. You can see the program here.
For accommodation I'm staying in an apartment (two bedroom single story house) with a married couple who are incredibly nice. The husband is from Curacao and wife from Holland so naturally I am trying to pick up as much Papimiento/Dutch as possible, although they are quite proficient in English. My room is very simple with just a bed (queen size, thank goodness) fan, and closet but I don't really need much else. The place is about 15 minutes from down down Kralendijk, not a bad walk at all.
I'll be here till mid-March or so, hopefully finding an instructor development course after I complete my divemaster internship.
That's the basic deal so far. To keep these relatively short and readable I'll get on to the next post about my travel day getting to Bonaire.
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