We woke the next morning after a few hours of sleep in
between the sweat, bugs, tossing and turning.
The instructions were to show up at the dive shop at the Iberostar in
Playacar. Playacar is just an extension
of Playa del Carmen to the south side where most of the bigger, nicer resorts
are all located at. We easily found a
taxi, managed to scrap together some of our stellar Spanglish skills to let the
driver know where we were going, and $7 later found ourselves at the front gate
to the resort. After stumbling through
some more Spanish to the gate guard and another non-English speaking lady on a
phone we eventually managed to get inside the resort. Turns out the “appointment” we had didn’t
exist and we had to come back in a few hours when the guy we were supposed to
meet was around. We eventually wound up
on the very beautiful beach to kill some time. Interestingly enough Ashley and a couple of
her girlfriends had had a long weekend trip to this exact Iberostar the year
before… When the time finally came, we
signed some paperwork, got our uniforms, and then had a pointless meeting with
a guy who still wasn’t the guy we were told we would meet with. He asked us a few generic questions that we
had already answered in the application process, then sent us to the dive shop
on the beach to get a quick rundown of how things were going to be as told to
us by the base leader. We were told we
would have (only) one fun dive a day, help out around the shop a little bit, be
spending most of the day in the pool doing demos, and were expected to sell
anything and everything at all times.
This, along with the way everything else had gone the past
two days was not exactly what we were expecting, but we gave it the benefit of
the doubt. We thought, “How terrible
could it really be? We have a dive job
on the beach in frickin’ Mexico!” Unfortunately
for us, the string of mishaps, lack of organization, and hints of misconception
would turn out to be all so telling…
This sounds ominous!! I am interested to see how this turns out... cause I actually haven't heard the story in real life yet.
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