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scuba_chick55
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jrdivagrl:
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Hey all! I'm your role model Anna. i'm a female diver that has been through everything imaginable. From 13 yr old girls asking to live with me if they run away from home (on the cure website in 1996/97) to a dive shop denying me cerification in 1999. Most people try to blame everything their children do on me, but in reality their children have made the choice on their own.
I have ALWAYS loved the ocean and sea life and wanted to explore the ocean like Mr. Cousteau since I was a toddler (until I watched JAWS), but my family never really helped me with reaching my dreams. I feel it was because I was an obese child and as I got older I became more obese until I weighed 260 lbs at 15 yrs old.
Many of my dreams were lost from being fat. And even though I lived only miles from the California coast, I never got to explore the world of diving.
By the time I entered Jr. College all dreams of adventure had long been replaced with what was more common around me in the desert, the place I moved to at 15.
But after I moved to Santa Barbara to attend college (for Buiness Econ) I remembered my love for the sea and I decided to lose the weight so that I could scuba dive and not be self-conscience about how bad I would be because of my obeseness.
I am now rescue diver cerified and I'm planning on studying Marine Science in more depth which I hope will open the doors to not only a more lucrative career, but also one far more rewarding than selling this or that in retail and management.
Many will tell you I am NOT a role model, but my detrimination to shatter the walls that divide the have's from the have not's is what scares them. And if I rise they wonder who will fall
I have ALWAYS loved the ocean and sea life and wanted to explore the ocean like Mr. Cousteau since I was a toddler (until I watched JAWS), but my family never really helped me with reaching my dreams. I feel it was because I was an obese child and as I got older I became more obese until I weighed 260 lbs at 15 yrs old.
Many of my dreams were lost from being fat. And even though I lived only miles from the California coast, I never got to explore the world of diving.
By the time I entered Jr. College all dreams of adventure had long been replaced with what was more common around me in the desert, the place I moved to at 15.
But after I moved to Santa Barbara to attend college (for Buiness Econ) I remembered my love for the sea and I decided to lose the weight so that I could scuba dive and not be self-conscience about how bad I would be because of my obeseness.
I am now rescue diver cerified and I'm planning on studying Marine Science in more depth which I hope will open the doors to not only a more lucrative career, but also one far more rewarding than selling this or that in retail and management.
Many will tell you I am NOT a role model, but my detrimination to shatter the walls that divide the have's from the have not's is what scares them. And if I rise they wonder who will fall
cintiachaneton
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Welcome to this world!
All the other comments are just right, but do not forget to have fun!!!
Cintia.
All the other comments are just right, but do not forget to have fun!!!
Cintia.
Very sweet of you to post this! Enjoy your new found obsession!
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