the most difficult course by far

Cognitive science, you make me wonder why i even took you up in the first place. You're detailed diagrams of brains and the human body leaves me impressed but i can't remember all these terms you have named each special part. I want to be able to remember but it seems so difficult, perhaps i have frontal lobe damage as you mention in one of your chapters. As i sit here by my desk my thoughts run amok. I hope you will be of use to me in the future if i take on speech therapy. But of now, you create chaos in my mind.

flapping your arms doesnt work

Day: 12 October 2013
Time: around 3pm
Place: Uppsala, tierp
Weather: Perfect

Insurance: Check

Reckless mindset: Check

Skydiving: Check

Awesome meter: BEYOND THE CLOUDS

Skydiving has always been on my mind since i decided to buy the AIG insurance that coveres extreme sports, this jump was actually supposed to occur last month but just before the jump we found a cheaper alternative which is from stockholm flying club. SO yes i did the jump yesterday and the awesomeness of the jump made up for all the crappyness before and after the jump. 

Before the jump: We were told that someone would get us from the bus stop and bring us to the dropzone.
Reality: We had to thrash through the fields used for crops which was filled with composite and it was like walking though shit, literally, for 1+km.

After the jump: We did not check the bus timing and ended up missing our train back. So we had to rely on someone's goodwill to fetch us to tierp train station, go back to uppsala then buy a ticket back to linkoping.

Total Expenditure: 3100 (jump plus photos and video)+ 170 (ticket there) + 90 (bus ticket there) + 170 (wasted cause we missed the train) + 320 (ticket back from uppsala) + 54 (ticket from tierp to uppsala) = 3.9k which is cheaper than the linkoping flying club which was 3k for the jump already and with photos and all would be 4.2k

 This is my instructor, the guy i trusted with my life. He's doing a victory dance with his zipper

 A better picture of the both of us

 These pictures are taken by the photographer i paid for so i do not know why he took this hahahah

 Us walking to the plane! jumping along with me were Jenzi, Jh and Andrew

 The helmet really makes me look like a turd. Not cool

 All of us have additional parachute on our backs just in case

 Just doing some last minute checks before we go on the plane! JH looking really suit up there

 As always i make sure this instructor dun play play with my life, have to make sure he got the parachute

 JH and me!

 Jenzi! hahaha

 Jenzi hahaha

 Thats the plane that would zoom us up to 4000m above land and drop us off. Im still looking quite at peace here cause i am not really thinking about the jump

 my "who violated me" face

 Going onto the plane!! the blades of the plane were so strong i could not open my eyes. and its not just becuase my eyes were small but as you can see my instructor also cannot open his eyes

 The inside of the small jet bringing us up! on the right is the shutter door where you jump from. check out that ass

 view from da plane, window seats yo

 Me looking like a retard while my instructor puts my thinking cap on

 This was around 1500m in the sky!

 These were the first few student jumpers who were clocking jumps, i always wonder as a student of skydiving you cannot make a mistake if not thats it, gonna die, talk about high passing standard

 Everyone saying their prayers

 In the next few photos it captures the moment when im like.. this shit is getting real! even as i am recounting this experience my palms get sweaty and my keyboard is getting damp from my fingers.

 uh o

 o god why

 reality check

 my mind is saying yes but my body is like shit shit shit

 i look surprisingly calm here when my mind is in a whirl

 my heart was going to leap out of my chest i swear 

 my awkward hands trying to move in the air, it is really hard cause the wind pushes it back 

 look at dem cheeks, what i look like if i lost 10kg i reckon

 LOL just LOL

 my attempt to smile okay

 look how in sync we are man, damn look at that formation

 victory sign yea

 all my attempts at natural smiling. fail

 I just realised my instructor looks really composed in all the shots and i look like a mad man

 my japanese face

 THANK GOD IT DEPLOYED

 IM SO HAPPY I AM ALIVE 

 Best feeling ever, not landing but flying

Me trying to get rid of my deafness caused by the air pressure

Would i do it again? Absolutely! Skydiving is so unlike what i imagined, i imagined it to be like panic attack or like losing consciousness or even like having a fit from the adrenaline, but the trick is to trust your instructor and also trust God that everything will be okay. The part where the parachute was deployed and even when before that i felt that there was so much time and so much control even though you were in the air, my mind was clear and i knew what to do. Theres this peace up in the sky that surpasses anything i have felt before, a silence amongst the clouds and theres nothing but you and the sky. I cant really describe this feeling of it being so surreal and calm. I always expected my heart to be like plunging all the way but i would say the drops from carnival rides give you that but not skydiving. I would definitely take it up as a sport if it werent so expensive. Plus i have a fear of heights actually, even crossing the overhead bridge i would be like hell is this thing going to break, but none of that happened when i was in the sky. Perhaps it was the tight harness, perhaps it was the safety checks, but i know it was peace that came from God, nothing else can replace that. Thank you Jesus for diving with me, you are the best.