My new "best course of all time" is the BSAC Instructor Foundation Course!

I have just about recovered from the weekend, having flown home from working
away on the Friday night, legged it up the coast to St Andrews to arrive
exactly in time to grab a coffee and go straight into the first lectures.
An intensive morning of further lectures and furniture removal later and it
was lunch on the hoof down to the pool for demos and stuff.  Back up to the
classrooms for lesson planning sessions and then a few hours to head back to
my buddy's house and prepare a practical lesson (Mask Clearing for me) and a
theory lesson ("The BCD") and then back to St Andrews for a meal with most
of the students and instructors.  The continuation of drinking was probably
not the wisest of moves, considering the early start on the Sunday at the
pool to teach our practicals and then the sprint back to the classrooms to
teach our theory lessons!  Feeling really rough the final lectures and
workshops were hard work!!!

When I got home on Sunday night I sat wondering "What the hell just
happened?".  Yesterday and today, everything is sinking in a bit more.  The
IFC is one hell of a course - I don't know if we were lucky with the calibre
of the instructors (we were graced by the presence of our own Claire Peddie
for example...) but all the presentations were excellent, and I think all 20
something students came away with an excellent grounding in how to teach
SCUBA diving.  If any of the instructors are UKRS lurkers - many thanks
again!

So what now?  Well it looks like yours truly, now BSAC Assistant Diving
Instructor, will be teaching, under supervision a couple of the Ocean Diver
Lectures and Pool Sessions in the new year to our new crop of Novices!!!
How scary is that?!?!?!

Any of you lot who are Sports Divers or Dive Leaders and haven't done the
IFC - find a local one and book your place - you will not be disappointed!

CAS