Diving with Nemo & Dori

Due to the fact that I will be sadly leaving Egypt in about 10 days or so, I’m doing my best to go out in true ‘Denise’ fashion, with a bang. Yesterday morning I returned back from Sharm el Sheikh after a weekend of diving and fun. My amazing and completely over-achieved boss man is a Divemaster and volunteered to take a small group of us to get our open water diving license. So of course we could never pass up such an opportunity to get certified in one of the best diving spots in the world, Sharm. It was incredible! I’ve never done anything like it and it was such a great experience to see essentially a whole new world underwater. I thought that snorkeling in the reefs of Dahab were cool…but diving in Sharm brought it to a whole new level. And I learned that I’m pretty much a fish. My tank of air was always twice as full as everyone else’s whenever we all finished a dive, probably due to all my years of swimming and running. Anyways, I advise that anyone who has the opportunity to get their diving license do so because it’s such a cool opportunity to see the underwater world and all the gazillions of fish and sea life.
As we were driving back from Sharm, I was looking at the beautiful Egyptian sun setting over the Sinai mountain range and was reflecting about my past 6 months in Misr. I just couldn’t get over the fact that I’m leaving all of this behind me so soon. It sounds cliché but I have had such unique life experiences here and I have grown so much in the last half a year. It’s as if I just don’t want this ongoing experience here to end. All the memories and the influential people I’ve met have made a lasting impression on me and I cannot express my gratitude enough to all of them. This internship has made me see why everyone loves going on AIESEC internships, because they really do change you and get a perfect opportunity to live life to the fullest. I know that I still have time to figure out exactly what I’m taking away from this experience but I just wanted to share some thoughts.