Good news first - I passed my theoretical exam for the PADI Open Water Diver! All I needed to do was watching dvds the whole time, work a bit in my book, finish quizzes with the dive instructor after each of the 5 chapters. Easy peasy, but I did have my problems calculation the "surface" time with a special table that reminded me so much on maths, that my brain just went on strike :) But anyhow, I made 44 of 50 points...and passed :)

Tomorrow morning I ll go for my first dive at 8 AM, I have a total of 3 dives on that day and get lunch on the boat...which is my main problem right now, food. Basically there are 2 places close where you can eat - here at the Scuba Junkie where they serve fried noodles, fried rice or pizza - or the Mabul Cafe which serves yummie things like jelly fish or fish head curry...you see my problem;)? The cuisine here is very mixed as they have cultural influences from India, Malaysia, local one and mainly real athentic Chinese... I was so looking forward to breakfast this morning as I did not eat anything since I arrived here yesterday afternoon - but they ran out of everything, 1 egg was left and toast...feel like I am starving and need to fins a solution for tomorrow.

The second thing is- I am so so so unbelievable annoyed by the local men which are constantly bothering me when I am outside. As we are located on the main street, every second car that drives by is blowing the horn and they shout out all different things, same if I walk along...So annoying and the next one that says anything should better watch out as I am done with politeness at this point and will explain them how we deal with things like that in Europe :)

Well, I ll go to bed early as I wanna be on time for breakfast, not that I encounter the same situation like this morning...Gonna be diving all day tomorrow just off Mabul Island where I am going to spend 2 nights from Wed till Fri, beautiful beaches and I hope I still feel like diving once I am there.

Sleep all well, I am going to dream of some real cheese and salami again..hmm