A long day of listening

A long day of listening

Today we had a lot of presentations to listen to. 

We started with “Teaching in Open Water”, because tomorrow, we’ll be going into the ocean for our Open Water presentations.

David presented everything we needed to know for tomorrow, and we also had a group discussion, in which we got some very useful tips for tomorrow. 
One of the most important things is to try and help each other out, and not make things more difficult for each other, as everyone will be nervous anyway.

So we made sure we all knew who had which skills to do, and confirmed with our fellow candidates that everyone was able to perform the skills.

The next presentation on the list was about the “Open Water Diver course”. It was very enlightening to learn how to actually teach the Open Water Diver course in real life, toreal students, perhaps very soon!

Than we listened to the two very long presentations about “Risk Management”, that were similar to the presentations I listened to on my A.I. course.

To wake us up a bit, we spend the next two hours doing our own Knowledge Development presentations. Mine was about Rescue Assists, which turned out to be a fairly easy subject. There is a lot you can talk about, but you can make clear what you want to say without making the presentation too long.

I was a bit more relaxed for this second Knowledge Development presentation than for the first one, and I felt it went very well.  I was extremely pleased to get a 5.0, as these presentations where the assignments I was most nervous about in the whole IDC.

After that, we only had to listen to “The Marketing of Diving”, which was presented by Phil. He did really well, only he seemed a bit nervous, but I’m sure he’ll feel more confident soon, after doing a couple more presentations in front of the group.

After this long, long day of listening, I am looking forward to go diving again tomorrow, even though it means that we’ll be doing our Open Water Exercises tomorrow, one of the few things we are not allowed to do over, in the unlikely event of (PADI’s favorite quite, you should remember this if you’re thinking of ever doing your IDC course!) failing them!

Keep up to date about my experiences!

Love, Alice