This is my first posting and i'm not exactly sure how it works but here goes.

I'm going to start with my life as it is at the moment since that seems like a good place to start, and despite the History degree, i don't want to bore you all with my past!

Well, i've been working at Oceanic Divecenter (http://www.oceanicdivecenter.com) in Kata since November 2005. You can check out the photo to the right - the people in the picture are Anna, Johan & Pele - the 3 lovely Swedes that worked here before i did! Oceanic was where Mik and i did our Instructor courses. These 3 cheery peeps were there then. (Anna may well be working back here next month, Johan is in Samui and Pele has, erm, fallen off the edge of the Earth?!) I worked the high season with my friend and boss, Mona, as well as Dan. It's only right that you see them too... So here's Mona and me at my birthday party last March...

And here's Dan... (he'll kill me for this!)...

We had a lot of fun and basically split all the work between us. Mainly it has been PADI Open Water Courses and Discover Scuba Dives (try-dives) but we did manage the odd Rescue Course and Advanced Course alongside. And then of course, we had to sit in the office sometimes to be on call to any passing custom - although doing things like this blog is probably more of an accurate description of our office hours!

Oh yes, and it's a mainly Swedish dive centre. Any Scandinavians that may read this, get your asses down here if you are ever in Phuket. My Swedish is pretty abysmal but i make the effort and know most of the diving terms in Swedish now, which is more than most Swedish instructors out here can do because everyone speaks diving terms in English... Weird!

Ok. That's my work. I was going to start telling you about my 'play-time' activities but the computer's going wonky. I promise not to be too long with them though! Until next time...