We could not go to the island in January just because of bad weather over there. So, this would be the first trip of 2018. To be honest, we did not dive that much since the water visibility was really unacceptable. We could not see anything far from one meter at all. For the whole, I did only one dive. However, we actually got introduced to our new diving instructor for is trip. His name is Manu. He is a friendly and kind man. It was a spectacular experience to dive with him. Even though the water visibility was bad, he managed to distract us with other activities understand. He taught us how to make a ring bubble underwater with our hands and navigate on land with blind eyes by covering up with the blanket. Overall, these are the only updates for our diving.
It was sad and really hard to watch on the day we arrived at the island. Along the seashore, there were rows of thick and filthy water hyacinth and rubbish floating from the ocean and possibly Vietnam. At the first thought, we did not know where is the origin of these water hyacinth. Then, we heard that at Vietnam, people were doing their river clean up and they were starting to throw away into the ocean. So you can pretty much guess our whole trip likes which were cleaning up all of those water hyacinth. Everybody was hard-working and optimistically trying to finish everything. The water hyacinth and rubbish were smelly and tangled. But of all, we did had a lot of joy while doing it since we found some weird stuff that we can joke about.
Sadly, this was the last trip for our lovely facilitator or LMRT leader, Karen. She is now our school counselor, and she will be leaving Liger and working from America to find scholarships, opportunities, and networking other colleges for us. We are all happy for her, but we promise that we will keep her in touch with our amazing, LMRT accomplishment.
