My new life after
become instructor is really amazing. I used to plan to work in Bali as diving
instructor but the place that I want first didn’t accept me – well there are so
many offers as well in Bali but at the end I choose to come back to Jakarta. I
had time to teach in Crystal Divers before move to another dive center. My (first)
student was a referral student from USA. She has done the theory and pool
session before so this time only open water left. She really nervous and
decided will not dive because that time she didn’t really feel ok to do that. I
tried so many ways to take her down but after three times encourage her; she
gave up and asked to go back to the boat. That time I was really disappointed but
that’s out of my reach.
Then turn out my real
first student also a referral from USA again but this time was a young guy – a firefighter.
It makes my confident back again after some incident before!! I love when they
satisfy with the dive J I got 2 students when I was in Crystal Divers
and they were really happy when finished the course. Time to go from Crystal
Divers L I got a new job at Divemasters Jakarta. I got training for 1
week first at Divemasters Bali for the product knowledge.
Jakarta… Jakarta…
Jakarta… I have been left this city for 1 year already, many things have change
but only one thing never (will) change is THE TRAFFIC!! Its suck a lot :P It
took me about 1,5 -2 hours from home to office. I used to plan to stay near my
office but there was family issue that didn’t let me to move out. So 3-4 hours
in traffic here I come! First week here I tried to use the bus but there are
really rare bus passing to my office so need to drive own car than use a taxi
all the time.
My first week in
Divemasters was not so busy coz I still need to know the condition and how to
make the schedule. Diving in Jakarta is different with Bali, especially the
course schedule. There are private and regular classes here. Regular class
consists of 5 meetings ( theory and pool) and 2 days in island. Private class (you
maybe already know from the name :p) consists of 3-5 days theory and pool
class, and also 2 days in island. We can do 2-3 days for full day or 4-5 days
for half day with flexible time – with appointment of course. The other
different is the time! We do the class at night time after office hour. As you
know Jakarta is a big city and a lot people will still work/ school during the day.
I am working with Mr.
Andi Zul as a Course Director here and also Rakhmat as a diving instructor
here. Almost 2 months I have been worked in here and I have quite many students want to
dive. I got so many background why they want to dive from the person who scare to the sea but after seawalker, he amaze and try to learn how to dive; coz they want to dive with their
kids; and also bad experience with cowboy instructor. So many background why
they want to dive before their holiday and also because they fall in love with hidden
city, underwater world. One thing I never regret that I got this scholarship
and teach a proper diving J
