...and I still don't want to leave.
I arrived on Little Corn Island 2 weeks ago, I am staying in a little cabin directly at the beach and the only things between me and the ocean is 5 meters of beach on 2 palm-trees. The view is just beautiful and the weather is perfect, well - now.
When I arrived here, the weather was picture-postcard like for 3 days... when I was under water most of the time doing my Advanced Open Water Certificate. And then it started to rain. We wanted to do a Night-Dive on Sunday, but had to postpone it to Monday, due to bad weather (rain and storm), on Monday, we had to postpone it to Tuesday, and then to Wednesday, because the weather did not get better (it was even "cold" some time, the clothes wouldn't dry anymore but get damper and damper...) But finally we did the Night-Dive on Wednesday evening. I can say, I am not the biggest fan of Night-Dives. Everything is so dark (obviously), you only see, what your light allows you to see, and there are soo many small fishes and whatever around you, it feels like bugs. But the one thing which will make me do it again and again: Swimming with the stars (less romantically, you could also call it Bioluminsecence). At one point we knelt down in the sand (I still have troubles with that, but lying is okay as well) switched off our lights, waited a bit, and then moved our hands... and the stars came out... and then we just started swimming. There's just no way I can describe this experience, you have to do it yourself, but it feels like swimming through a million stars!
I also had one dive with a camera - underwater photography, this was real fun. I have to get a waterproof case for my own camera! But the coolest thing there... while doing our safety stop, some dolphins came along to say hello... and I can proof it, I have a video! On the same day I went fishing with some locals, they gave me a line, so that I was occupied, and I really caught a fish, which I then had prepared for me for dinner. And to make this day even more perfect, we saw a rainbow, when we were heading back to the island. It was wonderful.
Apart from that, I did not do very much here... in the first week I had a neighbour from Germany, and also 2 swiss girls stayed at Carlito's Place (where I am staying). We had dinner together every evening and also shared some bottles of Rum. I also met Richard, a guy from the US who has been living on this Island for 7 months now, and he wants to stay.
On Saturday he had a little "pig-party". The pig was shipped over from Nicaragua mainland (poor piggy, had to survive a 2 days boat-journey). And then the poor pig was killed, stuffed with vegetables and wrapped in Banana-leaves. This then was put in a hole in the sand in which a fire had beend burning on stones for the last 6 hours so that the stones are really hot. Then everything is covered with some more Banana-leaves and sand and you have to wait for 8 hours. (Apparently, this is a method from Hawaii and Richard read about it in the Internet and wanted to try it).
The result then is a well cooked but not very nicely looking pig and many many locals trying to get their share of it. I was there when the pig came out, but seeing how it then was being massacred, I did not wish to get a part of it... instead I ate som coconut bread, which is really delicious.
On Thursday the sun came back, and since then I am very busy swimming (not too much, I do not want to get exhausted) lying in my hammock and sitting on my porch. And believe me, this can really be exhausting as well. I get up round 6:15 in the morning (why is it so hard to get up this early when you have to go to work) and go on a walk for the beach for about 1 hour. And then I start reading... I am totally relaxed by now, don't care about the internet anymore and (that is the most important thing) finally managed to NOT check my work-e-mails anymore. But I must admit that I am reading "business"-books. I just finished reading "Blink" (nice to read, nice information, but I am not too sure about what the message really is...) Right now I am reading "Emotional Intelligence" and it really is interesting, but as I am not married (yet) the last parts haven't been very helpful for me. This morning I started with the part of emotional intelligence at work... let's see if it brings any new insights.
And I also started working on "The 7 habbits of highly effective people". For the AIESECers among you... NALDS all over again. I just finished the first 3 habbits and will soon start with the 4th one. This really is very intense and makes me think very much about the last 3 years and of course also about the future. But the good thing is, that the past has not been wasted. I am on a very good path to where and who I want to be, although I did not think about it too much in the past (apart from the sessions with my Erfolgs-Team which I now realize, helped me a lot).
The sad thing is, I have to leave Little Corn on Friday... because I still have to go all the way to Panama. But I will go scuba diving again tomorrow (finally my left hand is better, I have some nasty rash there, either it was the attempted murder-attack by the ants, or it is an allergy) and hopefully see some Hammerhead-Sharks and I will be scuba diving in Playa del Coco in Costa Rica (finally going to the beach at the Pacific). Maybe I will also go to the Caribean side in Costa Rica to see some turtles, but I first have to find out if there are turtles to see right now. And then I will head straight to Panama. There, apart from doing some sight-seeing, I (I can't believe it) have to do WORK... I received an e-mail that I am supposed to do 3 complete days of preparation for the training in Chicago... so this will be one of the main tasks in Panama.
So far for now, concerning that there is absolutely nothing happening on Little Corn Island, I had quite an interesting time.
And for those who miss me... I'll be back soon, July 4th is THE Day!
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