The other day we got bumped from the Sam’s Tours boat (perks of diving at the local rate) and so decided to check out the other big shop, Fish and Fins. We had no idea where it was though, even after driving pretty much every bit of Koror and Malakal. I figured it had to be someplace really obvious we’d been passing all along that just wasn’t clearly marked. After driving the main road down the length of Koror and Malakal and still not finding it, we started driving around, looking for a poster with a phone number to call.
7:00 AM The alarm goes off. A really obnoxious ehk ehk ehk. Fletch turns it off and I roll over. 7:30 AM There’s a knock on our door. I don’t hear it because I’m sound asleep dreaming about this highly unpleasant person I worked with in a dive shop once, who then left to fill a conservationist position at another dive shop. In my dream she’s selling the island’s few turtles on the black market to Indians and Pakistanis who want the shells. 7:31 AM I wake up to Fletch scrambling out of bed and half asleep mumbling ‘Oh shit.’ He rushes over to the
The radio stations here play very eclectic selections of music. You’ll get a country song, and then a rap song, and then a few Indian chanting songs that will make you scramble to change the station. It’s nice because you never hear the same song twice. Ever. But then the songs you actually want to listen to are about one out of twenty. It’s like pushing the shuffle button on your iPod; you only ever get all the random songs you don’t even know why you have. The other day Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls came on as we were heading to
Our friend Kyle arrived! He’s going to be living with us in our house which is coming along quite nicely. We took him out on his first day of diving here the other day, the second day of diving for Fletch and me. We had to wait until he had his driver’s license because as a local, the price is about half of what it would be otherwise, and diving here is fairly pricy. We were told to show up earlier this time around as our divemaster wanted to do something “special,” so we did, met our two divemasters who were
We got cable installed! We skipped on adding the American news channels package though because all the shows from ABC and NBC and Fox are actually tapes that are sent over from the U.S. They are usually two weeks old by the time they air here. That is if they receive the tapes at all; sometimes they don't get them and so have to show an old (older than two weeks) news program. How funny is that? I mean what's the point of even watching the news if it's two weeks old? If the world turns to chaos someone shoot