The How to guide to taking cold showers.

So here in central America most of the showers have been cold ones. One would get used to this if it wasn°t for the fact that every few weeks, an amazing hot shower comes along. So with this in mind, you have to develop strategies on taking cold showers, because although packpackers are dirty, we aren°t that dirty!

1- Take showers late in the afternoon. This helps 2 fold. First, you may be warmer froma day in the sun and not mind a cold shower and secondly, many of the water tanks are big black aluminum things on top of houses, so that the sun and the heat of teh day warm the water slightly.

2-Get in quickly. There is no use waiting and psyching yourself out for a bad shower. Just get in!

3- Get completely socaked, then get out of the water and apply all your sopalike rpoducts at once. If you do your soap and shampoo at the same time, you save rinsing time in the coldwater.

4' Rinse thoroughly

5-Repeat as necessary!

Scuba

I am currently doing my PADI open water certification course in Utila, Hinduras at an outfil named Captain Morgans dive center. So far it is goign really well. I am the only on ein my class as one girl unfortunately had to drop out due to panic attacks.

The first day was filled with reading, watching videos and then a confined dive just on the end of the dock. This was to get used to the feeling of being underwater and practice some skills like losing your regulator and mask and what to do if you run out of air.

The next day (yesterday) was to finish my theory exam (96%) and then I was on the boat with my instructor to go over the skills again but this time in open deep water. all went very well!

I continue the same thing this afternoon and I should be done my certification today! It is so much fin and something I would reccommend to everyone!