Got the schedule for the IE exams. Two hours Friday night (fine). Start at 8 Sat, done about 8 pm (okay, home about 9). 8 am Sun at Alexandria Bay -- not so cool, that's a 2 hour drive.
It's a neat thing overall. A mix of written tests, classroom presentations by us, pool skills, open water (A Bay for us) checkout dives, open water rescue (gear stripping, providing breaths, while moving a non-breathing diver to shore). The pool skills and open water are things where other students are purposely told to mess specific things up, to make sure that the candidates properly identify and correct issues.
I'm getting hit by a minor round of allergies and possible cold, which makes ear equalizing more interesting
With taking care of the menagerie tossed in (DW is going to NYC, family get together for her brother's birthday), needing to do a little prep before each of the sessions, that 8am Sun bites, would have to be up at 5:30, out the door by 6. I've done a push back, will see if they accept it -- the Examiner doesn't know local geography, so it's up to our training director to suggest a later start. Even 9 Sun would make a big difference. (If we wouldn't schedule classes with that kind of schedule, they shouldn't be testing against it.)
The VV Grand is indeed out for delivery today --psyched!