I have not been writing much recently because I have been very busy. For the past 3 days I have been up at about eight, I meet a group of kids that Drew had introduced me to (Drew head back to Cairo to catch a flight back to istanbul), and we all go scuba diving, 7 times in the past 3 days days. Our instructor is a free lance dive instructor and he was teaching the rest of them their open water certification. I hopped on the train on the last day of the open water (I think its 4) and then the next day we started the advanced certification. I had taken the whole course before when I was 15 for a marine biology course, but I ended up changing schools and never finished the summer course. So, this is ideal because otherwise I would have had to take the whole thing over again and it would have costed hundreds of dollars. 2 days ago we had an incredible dive in a place called the “islands” because there are two huge coral islands and then that afternoon we had our navigation dive which is part of the advanced certification. I had to navigate a triangle using a compass at about 20 meters. Yesterday was our last day of the advanced and we did three dives including “blue hole” “the canyon” and a night dive. Google the blue hole in dahab because it is supposed to be one of the coolest things in the red sea and a very famous dive (I would have a link for you but I’m typing this on my blackberry)The people I’m taking the course with is a couple from Canada, Peter and Shalah and a dude from Norway, Martin. They’re all about 30 and have been traveling through Africa for the past year and a half. Peter and Shalah were traveling through Europe for a year and a half before Africa. The three of them met somewhere along the way in Africa. Next, they are doing Jordan, Syria, and Iran, and then Thailand and Maylaysia.  Check out Peter and Shallah’s website and Martins website.  The rest of the crew is Joel (pronounced Joe-el) who is our dive instructor as well.  He is from Barcelona and has been here for a while living with his brother.  Carmella is Joel’s girlfriend.  She is from Canada and i think has been here for a while as well.  Sam is from Canada and is currently on is gap year, or two, between highschool and college and he just completed his dive master and he has been here for 4 months. And Brian, from the States, has also gotten his dive master in the past couple months. Carmella, Brian, and Sam often joined us on our dives for our open water and advanced certification. And last but especially not least, Summer, who worked at Yalla Bar, where we went every night to unwind after our dives.   Summer, from New Zealand (Coromandel Bay- check out day one of my New Zealand trip), has been traveling for quite some time and just recently finished the second part of a three part extended travel.  She has been in Dehab for a few months re-upping on cash before she travels the rest of the Middle East.My current living expenses, diving aside (which is extremely reasonable) is 3 dollars a night for accomadation in my straw hut, and about 7 or eight dollars a day for 3 meals and my constant consumption of water. If I have some beers during happy hour, my total daily living expenses comes out to about 12 US dollars. Huge change from Jordan.Don’t have any pictures of the last few days at the moment because my camera is currently out of commision, but I may try to rent or buy a disposible camera for the wreck dive I plan to do with my advanced certification. For the wreck dive trip you go to the wreck on a boat the night before the dive, sleep under the stars and do three dives the next day. One around the wreck, the next one in the wreck, and a drift dive near the wreck where you get to swim with sea turtles and some other cool things.I hope everyone is doing great and I will post again in a few days!Until then…