I♡my mentors

MENTOR.

Such an amazing word actually.

A word full of meaning.

Most of the time a meaning that comes from the heart and not from the pure definition.

When I teach IDCs, there is this big question that appears on the screen:

What is a Mentor?

The definition from the dictionary is:

1.     a wise and trusted counsellor or teacher

2.     an influential senior sponsor or supporter

But what comes out from my students mouth is way more intense:

Someone that changes your life

Someone that knows how to pass there passion

Somebody that loves teaching

Anyone that spend all day with there students…

If I think about my mentors, I have this very special place for them.

There is my first dive Instructor: Bea. For her, and forever, I wear pink fins! When I turned 18, my parents asked me what do you want for your birthday? And with no hesitation, I said PINK fins, like Bea.

There is of course my Course Director, to take me under there wings, when I was the youngest of my course… an I felt sometimes… so small…

There is Rich (I always need Rich in my pocket ;-). That trusted me to Staff his IDCs, believed in me till the last minute and encourage me to present my CDTC dossier everyday.

It was the first phone call I made all the way from Spain to Thailand, to say I was IN and mostly to say THANK YOU.

And then finally, all the PADI staff that took us through the CDTC. Made me laugh and help me become who I am today.

This are the MENTORS, the people that stay forever in your heart… way more than in your head.

This people that have a little voice, that you can still hear even when they are far away.

Thank you all.