Only a week to go now…!!
It’s a strange feeling, I have known I would be doing my Instructor course this month, but I now realize I got used to the feeling that it’s still do far away.
Now it is suddenly coming very close, and that’s a bit scary.
I have been studying a lot, starting a couple of months ago, when I did my PADI Assistant Instructor course.The problem is, as soon as you don’t use the information for a while, you forget most of it!
I have seen two more A.I. courses, of which one was only a couple of weeks before my Instructor course.
My experience is that it was very helpful to do my A.I. course and repeat the information a couple of times.The first couple of days are always just trying to figure out what it’s all really about, and than it starts making sense.
It’s not as difficult as it seems at first, as long as you try to look at the bigger picture instead of focusing on the details too much.
The chapters Equipment, RDP (Recreational Dive Planner) and Skills and Environment were no big problem.
It was all about just reading all my PADI manuals again, plus I learned a lot from the PADI Diving Knowledge Workbook!
My problem chapters were Physiology and Physics.Fortunately, I was lucky enough to have a very helpful and experienced Master Instructor to help me out!
Many thanks again to Pete, for always being there for me as my mentor!
Another thing that helped me a lot with remembering all the things I needed to know, was visualizing.
I have been working though my manuals and writing all the important stuff down, in pictures!
My sheets won’t make any sense to anyone else, as things like hemoglobin’s turned into Goblins who liked carbon monoxide and stuff like that… get it? ;-)
So now, closer than ever to my upcoming Instructor course,I feel like if I keep repeating these last things, I will be well prepared, or as good as I can, for my IDC.
I have no new things to learn anymore, only repeating what I (should!) already know.
On the other hand, despite all the stories I’ve heard around me from other divers and Instructors, I still have no idea what to expect!
I will keep y’all up to date, for now, I’m off studying again, don’t want to waste one more minute! ;-)
Keep reading,
Love, Alice
