  I woke up today more nervous than I've been before any of my other skydives (for this course anyway).
I was shivering and went to the loo rather frequently. It was a bit overcast, with fog in some places, but I was detirmined not to chicken out. I'm pretty comfortable with the jumping out of the plane thing now - its just that today was the 360 degree turns and forward movement (stage 5) and I wasn't confident I'd be able to do the turns consistently.
I was just thinking "what the hell.. we'll see what happens". We took off about 8:15am and on the way up the instructor was telling me to make sure I push off the strut, otherwise my face might hit the step! Anyway, exit was good and he followed me - it was uber cool to look up at the plane and see him dive out after me. I drifted to the left a bit and attempted a turn to face him again (this was when it would be a success or I'd fall into a heap of spinning craziness) - and it worked!
Wicked... in no time I was back facing him. He indicated for me to do a right 360 and I did.. my legs were a bit wobbly but I corrected (apparently... I can't see them from my point of view). I then did a forward movement towards Mark (my instructor) - which involves straightening the legs and bringing your arms back a bit - to dock and was close enough to head butt him.
I then did a left hand 360.. and we were still at 7k.. still 3k feet to go and enjoy the ride! woohoo. It was great.... I can hear the jump plane now .. a couple of English backpackers are doing a tandem each... bloody tandems.. taking up good jump spots on the plane. I'm hoping to go again today if the weather holds. OK for Stage 6 (which is almost exactly the same).
After Stage 6 I can go alone! (to practice and prepare for the backloop and shit). In less important news, it looks as though I'll be staying on up here to 'run' the chemotherapy department (I'll be a rubber stamp for a while I think). 
