Today was fairly restful. The real fun should begin tomorrow. Because I didn’t stay up too late, I got to bed at a decent hour, and so I was up at a reasonable time. I had a good breakfast instead of the dregs of the leftovers. I signed up for scuba tomorrow, and then spent the morning talking to friends on the beach. I’ve gotten sun, but it doesn’t look like a burn. Hopefully I can keep this up. Sun tan lotion applied sensibly.
In the afternoon, I went snorkelling. It wasn’t where I expected it, and was around the corner of the island. They dropped us in the water and we got to swim around some small cliffs and into a protected cove with a small beach. The leader showed us a live conch and white sea urchin. Then we swam through a tunnel to the open ocean and spent some time there. I had brought along some bread and watched the fishes eat it. On the way back we were shipwrecked. Really, the engine broke and another boat had to come and rescue us five minutes later. But shipwrecked sounds cooler.
Afterwards we got back, I took a shower and talked with my roommate before I escaped and found some new arrivals I knew. Then it was just spending time with friends for the rest of the day, with an interruption for dinner.
One of the new arrivals is a woman I met last year. She was very nice, and although married (husband isn’t here), I have, in my mind, put her on a pedestal as a perfect person. And I have to concentrate on separating the fantasy from the reality. I don’t even know how much she likes me, other than that we’ve corresponded over the past year a bit. But she seems friendlier with other people, so it hurts a little, but that is my fault.
I’ve got to be a better, more socially intelligent, person.