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Most dive places including here at Dive Caroline offer a try dive in the pool. So they were keen to do it.

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Here is the musician’s answer to an instrument, smaller lighter, stronger.

I was born in Calgary,Canada on sept. 28 1995 so I am ten years old now and living in Kuwait.
I have been in Kuwait for about a month and a half.
I have been going to the British School of Kuwait for about 3 or 4 weeks. I am in year 6.
We’re just settling in now and we are all finding our way around Kuwait (ex. I’m starting to know my way around school, my mum is starting to figure out streets etc…)

Here he is at the new piano, Roland HPi-5 Digital Piano

I took this photo with my new wide angle lens the Nikon 12-24 mm DX zoom.

I bought this lens because of our upcoming trip to Jordan. And I would cry at Petra without a lens that can try to capture it all.

Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband

Click on the jukebox link on their page for a popup that plays their song Banjo Boy. And don’t forget to click on the videos link also for a video. By the way, Savitri has the same shirt, I Do All My Own Stunts too.

I heard these guys on Soundstage on Voice of America radio on the way to work this morning (from 6:00 to 6:45). VOA is the official broadcasting service of the United States government.

I guess that is discus not discuses as the singular of discus must be diski. But I regress.

This from CNN Nikon photos link.

A remote contolled car is used to collect the discus after it was thrown at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday March

An afternoon start. Very nice weather and calm.

The visibility was only about 2 meters though. We did some navigation underwater by compass.

This was my first dives with the new weight pouches. Nice, not having a heavy 10 kg weight belt. Also not time to balance out the weights so they are not all on my hips. The dry suit is still an adventure. The problem is I get my trim almost right and then all the air decides to rush up to my feet. Then I start to go up feet first. And as it is not so deep with poor visibility it is a challenge.

So the second dive I adjusted my weights on to put more on my hips to keep the legs down. Not bad, but still I don’t have that perfect horizontal trim.

Then the night dive. Bad visiblity. Fun, kind of neat poor visibility but with the lights kind of like being explorers. In the bad vis and night particularly you need to be careful about the sea urchins!

The first dive, I learned a lesson. We went out around the wreck and at one point I took the lead. Then I was going on and my buddy wanted us to stop and head the other way, so he shone the light on me but I didn’t see it. So then when I realized he wasn’t there I turned around to see where he was, that is, do a circle with the light, to see if he can then see me. But I think he was just around the corner. Now the problem for me was, that being a steel wreck, at night with no visiblity after turning I cound NOT use my compass to figure out which way I was pointing. No big deal, I surfaced and he came up a few minutes later, then we went for part 2 of the dive back toward the boat.

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I chatted with a lady in the pool today, who teaches in Kuwait and has her own blog here:

find oma wally: You’re Gonna Love Kuwait if…..

She’s lived in Calgary, I’m not sure where whe is originally from.

She teaches at an International School here which really has only Kuwaitis in it.