September 5th Day 73

Today I got out of bed knowing that this was my last official day of work. I turned on my computer and found a commented draft in my inbox from my advisor in Germany which was a good start to the day. When I went downstairs however things got a little interesting. Turns out someone came into the dorms last night and raided the fridges of juice, a hamburger, and some alcohol along with mine and Brett's sandals and a pair of shoes belonging to one of the other people on station. I started to laugh just because of the ridiculous luck I have been having with sandals here. I ended up taking a pair of Tahiti sandals that have been sitting by the front door of the dorms now for months and I was surprised by how comfortable they are. I managed my way over to the dock to get assigned to do my last Gump dive. I tagged along with Steph as she did the damselfish anemones and it was a nice last dive. When we finished with that, I did some random clean-up tasks and then got off for lunch. After lunch we led Keith for our beach dive for dive master and had a good time diving the wall at the public beach. Ended up seeing the biggest yellow trumpet fish I had ever seen there but too bad I didn't have my camera on me. When we came back we did some of our talks and dive briefings for our dive master class and then called it a day. Keith had me go snorkel out to BOB, a buoy they deployed today, and take some cool pictures of it. On the way back I snorkeled for a little while chasing around some fish and then went in to take a shower. Got a chance to talk to my parents and Erica one last time while I have internet and then away I went off to the crepe cart for dinner. It was delicious to eat and man would I go back in a heartbeat. Got a dinner and dessert crepe which definitely filled me up. While I was there, I talked with Susan who had broken her finger climbing up the swim ladder of the 609 for a bit while we were there about my Fulbright application. Turns out the guy who I will technically be working under was her grad student. What a small world. She said he was a really great guy and that made me feel even more reassured than I already was. When we got back to Gump, I gathered up my stuff and headed across the street to the morph lab to work on all my Fulbright stuff. Now it's 3:30 in the morning and I just finished up with everything except my blog. Since I am leaving Gump and my computer behind tomorrow, this will be my last blog post for this trip. I plan to keep a written journal during my travels and adding it to this blog after I get back to the states. But alas this is my goodbye to this blog and Moorea. I have had the time of my life here getting to know some great people and be involved with some great research in a beautiful place. I hope that sometime soon I get to come back here and experience some of what I have again but if not, it was a great ride that I will never forget. Good morning and good night Moorea hope to see you around the bend. Until later.