When I wake up a week from today, I will be hungover, probably missing my shoes, in an unfamiliar bed, and looking absolutely terrible.
But – I will be a dive instructor! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!
My instructor exams are next Thursday & Friday. It is absolutely blowing my mind that after next week I’ll have reached this goal that I’ve been working so hard towards since February.
I’ve been so focused on this for so long that I just realized I’ve given almost no thought to what I’m going to do after I pass my instructor exams. I’ve just been saying this vague, “Oh, I’ll just work as an instructor” when people ask me what I’m going to do here. I’ve been on this one-track mindset of “save money, move to Roatan, become a dive instructor” that I forgot to think about anything past that.
I don’t feel ready to be teaching people how to dive and I’m not sure how much will change by next Friday. My course is going fine… I’m not struggling at all and I’ve been doing really well for the most part. But the enormity of what I’ve done here is starting to hit me. Next week I’ll be a dive instructor. And then what?