another first
i am definitely suffering from my first ailment here in the southern hemisphere. i've totally got those body aches and pains that are synonymous with the flu. i'm also very run down from the rafting and kayaking. yesterday, we were in the pool for five hours drinking chlorine water. but it paid off because we all basically learned to do our rolls. a first. it usually takes students three or four sessions to learn it, but the four of us were totally onto it. it helped that we had a small group and a lot of one-on-one attention from the instructor. in a small twist of irony, brendan, who can barely swim and is really uncomfortable in the water, had the rolls down pat in under an hour. that was really cool to see.

next week we are back to diving for the final section of our course. i'm glad there will be little traveling and little movement for a while because i gotta beat this cold.

please stop sending mail to me at counter mail. they are not liking that i'm using it for long-term mail delivery and they're cutting me off. email me if you want my proper home address if you haven't received it already.

i guess that's it for now.