About Calmness and Prices

It's been an activity filled 5 days, I havent spent a single afternoon or morning just laying on a hammock reading a book.
But it means I'm a certified advanced open water diver now. Wonder what good that'll do me, it's hard to picture a situation that would call for a certified AOW diver. Apart from signing up to take even more advanced diving courses, where it is a must. The most advanced level means you become a diving instructor, and then you make even more money for them by not just giving it to them yourself, but also by taking other peoples money and giving it to them. Nice scheme that PADI organization has going there.
Today after the last dive the divemaster congratulated me on moving very slowly and deliberately and staying still on the bottom, observing, while others were doing excercises. My reson for that, though, wasnt the concentration on teaching or trying to conserve air, I just felt like having a minute to myself in total calmness. Sometimes it apparently takes getting to the ocean bottom to have that.
Today is also our final night in Panglao. By coincidence, there is a big party right here at our villas, which we will attend and attack with full force. Might need to continue the party until very late (or very early) to get everyting partied properly. After all, we are partying for an open water certification, 3 advanced OWD's (Rami and Olga had completed theirs, too), and our going away party.
The going away will commence tomorrow morning, with a taxi, a ferry, another taxi, a plane and a taxi. We would've liked to travel by surface, but that would've taken more than a day with 10+ changes of modes of transportation, so we'll fly.
After we finish flying, we should be in Boracay, which is said to have one of the best beaches in the world. Of couse it might be just the boracayan tourist officials saying that. Tomorrow we'll know.
Boracay will also probably be a bit more expensive (and touristy) than Panglao. Here a beer costs somewhere around 50 cents to 1,5€, and our Christmas dinner at a beachfront restaurant (toes buried in the sand) cost something around 12€ per person. And we really tried to eat as much freshly barbecued everything (including squid, lapu-lapu, beef etc.) as possible, complete with appetizers, flushed down with beer, caipirinhas and wine (which is relatively expensve here).
Today I had lunch in a local eatery; fried rice and vegetables in coconut milk cost all of 23 Philippine pesos, which translates to the same amount of money that i get back home if i take 2 empty beer cans back to the store.
Our transport here has been two almost new Honda XR 200 trail bikes, which have served us well in the sometimes undescribable roads.
It is 2.30 pm now, and I think I finally have the time to hit that hammock now and wait for the party buffet to start.
The others are wathcing tarsiers (kind of very tiny monkey), which, being very unbarbecuable animals, dont interest me in this state of mind at all.