Important Lessons

Over the next week I learn quite a bit about living on Roatan. Here are a just few lessons that I learned.
1) The shop never opens on time. Sometimes it does not open until I have waited outside for half an hour. Well that was true until after about a month they finally just gave me a key so that I could open the shop on time.
2) Dive master candidates are, in general, not good at getting homework done. I showed up a good month after another dive master candidate and finished the course before her. I am pretty sure that had I not set a standard, this candidate could still be trying to finish the course.
3) When someone comes around selling chocolate cake one day and then the next, the price is doubled and it is called space cake, it is not something that I want to eat. Fortunately for me, I was really cheap when I got there and did not want to buy a piece of cake for 40 lempira (about $2), otherwise I would have found out the hard way. The aforementioned dive master candidate convinced most of the shop to get some since it was her birthday and she wanted to have a nice party. It was exciting, only three of us did not eat it. We were the only ones capable of conversation, everyone else was pretty out of it.
4) Memory function stops pretty quickly when drinking. I was chastised for not showing up at the birthday party the next day, except I went. The birthday girl just got too wasted to even remember what happened. Since I do not drink, that gave me the unique perspective and ability to clarify what happened on the nights that I witnessed the drinking.