Since more then a year now I´m a PADI Instructor, teaching different people from around the world. I´m confident in my skills as an instructor and enjoy teaching all those people how to dive.

Now I guess it’s different teaching someone you don’t know than a member of your family. When I was talking to different instructors about teaching family members they had a lot of different opinions, ranging from I would never do this again to it was a great experience.

I never had someone I know visit me while I was traveling and now in January 2016 my brother was traveling to Koh Tao to do his Open water course with me.

I was so nervous, what if he does not like it, maybe he has some problems, maybe he panics….. OK, I tend to overthink things…. he arrived with a friend who did the course as well that was a good thing because I did not know his friend so there was someone „neutral“.

The course

In the evening when they arrived on Koh Tao we started with paperwork and they got some homework. The next morning we started with Theory and they did really well 100% in all 3 Quizzes. After lunch we went to the pool and started with confined. It went really well as well, they had some small problems with mask skills, they did not really enjoy taking it off but after a few tries it got better and better. It was great to see my brother learning all those things and really enjoying it and I was looking forward to taking them in the ocean and showing them why I love doing what I´m doing so much.