Now it's down to five days and I'm feeling the burn!
I have been trying to get back into decent shape by doing sit-ups and push-ups every night. I will see how well I've kept myself in shape when they are making me do 25 push ups for not making my bed the right way:)
I am going to miss everything about this place I call home. The food, the friendships and the family, the animals too but not as much as the food. My freedom is slowly drawing to an end and I will soon be somebodies bitch, screaming "Yes Sir May I Have Another" God I love America!
The Office is one of the funniest shows I think I've watched in a long time. It's comparable to South Park the way it makes me laugh. The writing is sort of similar, South Park is edgy, racist, demeaning and insane. Same with The Office! I'm enjoying the Netflix account my parents have because I'm trying to be as lazy as possible before my big endeavor. I don't know how these next two and a half months are going to be, I'm pretty sure it's going to go well, I just don't know what to think about it. It's almost too much to think about. I want to say I am going to do great and everything will go perfectly fine, but I don't know what the drill instructor will be like, I don't know what the other recruits will be like. Everything is up in the air and I truly can't say I am better than any other enlistee because of the experiences I've had or the education I've received.
I am not really happy leaving right before Thanksgiving, that is just weird how they set the processing system like that. I leave right before Thanksgiving and I am in all through Christmas and New Years. It's easier to just complete everything without any breaks and not have to waste days due to holidays, breaking this up is only making it harder on the recruits.
Five days left!
Five days to say goodbye to friends.
Five days left to eat as much good food as possible.
Five days left to be alone on my own without any interruptions.
Five days left to play my drums!
Five days left to wear regular clothes.
Five days left to say goodbye!
Five days Left!
Paxton Baker(Congressional Award Chairman) and I
Friday, November 20, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
More pizza please
Here are a few more goals that I have thought of over the past week.
1) I would like to learn another language while in the service.
I hope to achieve this by being in another country and being surrounded by the language. Maybe I will be stationed in another country for a year or so.
2) To help others in need.
I hear there is an option of volunteering if you pull into port somewhere, I guess someone sets it up and it's optional to go and help out. I would love to partake in that.
3) To read as many books as I can while under sea.
There is nothing like reading while rocking back and forth on a boat. Granted these ships are so big you won't feel the rocking but at least I'll be on a boat. I would also like to read more books in general. Which leads me to another one of my personal goals.
4) Read more books while alive and breathing.
5) Utilize my parents Netflix account and watch as many movies as I can!
There has been a lot of great documentaries on that site lately. That is my new hidden pleasure.
I hope to meet some great people in the Navy. Friends I can rely on and friends I can relax and enjoy life with. I am going to learn a trade which will make me valuable and I'll be able to get my degree for dirt-cheap/nearly free. I think that's great! I would just like things to start right now, I wish that tomorrow I was on a plane.
I remember while in my first year of ACorps in Denver. The end of the year we all went to the 'Confidence Courses' at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. These confidence courses were designed for officers in training to teach them leadership, and all sorts of communication skills. My Team of about nine people and I navigated through these courses with physical and mental tests challenging us in ways that made us tired from thinking and jumping around. The courses basically reminded me of making forts when I was yonger, always making the carpet lava, and the couches safe areas where I could hang out. Maybe get a blanket and watch Salt N Peppa on the MTV. We had to manage the terrain in these courses and lets just say we stood in the first chamber for about twenty minutes tying to figure out what to do, and the other five actually doing it. After we all finished the course my Team Leader told me I did a great job with trying to figure out what to do for the team. That showed me I had a passion for leadership, which leads me to the possibility of becoming an officer. I would love to become an officer, I just don't know if I love the navy enough yet.
1) I would like to learn another language while in the service.
I hope to achieve this by being in another country and being surrounded by the language. Maybe I will be stationed in another country for a year or so.
2) To help others in need.
I hear there is an option of volunteering if you pull into port somewhere, I guess someone sets it up and it's optional to go and help out. I would love to partake in that.
3) To read as many books as I can while under sea.
There is nothing like reading while rocking back and forth on a boat. Granted these ships are so big you won't feel the rocking but at least I'll be on a boat. I would also like to read more books in general. Which leads me to another one of my personal goals.
4) Read more books while alive and breathing.
5) Utilize my parents Netflix account and watch as many movies as I can!
There has been a lot of great documentaries on that site lately. That is my new hidden pleasure.
I hope to meet some great people in the Navy. Friends I can rely on and friends I can relax and enjoy life with. I am going to learn a trade which will make me valuable and I'll be able to get my degree for dirt-cheap/nearly free. I think that's great! I would just like things to start right now, I wish that tomorrow I was on a plane.
I remember while in my first year of ACorps in Denver. The end of the year we all went to the 'Confidence Courses' at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. These confidence courses were designed for officers in training to teach them leadership, and all sorts of communication skills. My Team of about nine people and I navigated through these courses with physical and mental tests challenging us in ways that made us tired from thinking and jumping around. The courses basically reminded me of making forts when I was yonger, always making the carpet lava, and the couches safe areas where I could hang out. Maybe get a blanket and watch Salt N Peppa on the MTV. We had to manage the terrain in these courses and lets just say we stood in the first chamber for about twenty minutes tying to figure out what to do, and the other five actually doing it. After we all finished the course my Team Leader told me I did a great job with trying to figure out what to do for the team. That showed me I had a passion for leadership, which leads me to the possibility of becoming an officer. I would love to become an officer, I just don't know if I love the navy enough yet.
Monday, October 26, 2009
30 Days
So it's down to 30 days.
I wonder what It's going to feel like when I'm sleeping in Boston on my last night before I leave. Waking up at 4 am and then sitting in MEPS(Military Entrance Processing Station) and instead of going home like I have the last three times I've journeyed to that facility. I will be taking a bus ride to Logan Airport and hopping on a plane to Chicago to Great Lakes, Il to start my recruit training, or 'Boot Camp'.
I won't be scared because this is what I have dreamed about for years growing up. I've learned so much about my grandfather being in the Air Force and my step father being in the Army that I have been so intrigued over these years about what drove them to make that decision to enlist.
But before this all happens I would like to set some goals for myself to try and attain while I am in the Navy. I set some personal goals while I was in AmeriCorps and I'd like to think that some of them have been accomplished. One great accomplishment would be that I actually completed the whole year with my team. I think that if I hadn't finished with a full team, my year would have completely sucked, I would have thought that the year was a repeat of my previous NCCC year in Denver. Not that that wasn't a great year, I loved every second of it. Everything must change and things can't stay the same all of the time. Another personal accomplishment was to prove to myself that I am capable of being a leader. Last year was the toughest year of my life, I grew leadership skills that I will take with me for years to come. I made some tough decisions that I had only dreamed of being valuable enough to make. Last year showed me how much potential I really have to do great things in this world. So with all of those goals I would now like to set the bar really high for new personal excellence if you would.
I have six years to attain these goals and plenty of time to do great things so here they are.
1) To become more organized
I am always losing my personal belongings, I hate it! I'm one of the oldest recipients of the Congressional Award this year and I leave my cell phone and wallet on the bus or out in the common areas so people have to track me down to give it back to me. Enough of that, I'm going to take care of my personal belongings and never lose anyhing ever again.
2) Stop being lazy
Often times I look around my house and see different jobs that should be done and I don't take action to do them myself. I want to become a hard working human being. I want to get slapped around in boot camp enough that it shows me how much I take for granted around here because this needs to change. While in AmeriCorps I jumped on the opportunity to do extra work or stay later when needed but when I get home I just become lazy. I hope to god that I get in shape about this. What happens when I have kids and own a house someday? I can't just push things back and take care of things later.
3) Get in Shape
Since I've been home I have been maintaning a pretty laxed work-out regiment. I have been running, but nothing like when I was in New Orleans running 20-30 miles a week. I want to come out of boot camp with abs that will cut steel.
4) Quit smoking
Ok this one will be pretty easy in boot camp, it's coming out of boot camp that will be a problem for me. Tons of people in the military smoke cigarettes and the temptations will be there for me to indulge. I just have to stay strong and be healthy. I need to think before I act.
5) Think before I speak
I would think that boot camp will help me with this. It's always been a problem with me, especially when I am speaking. I need to use words when describing objects, not just say 'It's next to the thing' and impersonate myself digging a ditch when the word is just a shovel. Seriously Chris, learn how to talk please.
I will think of more for future posts, but for now I would like to go to bed. I will wake up tomorrow and go to my recruiters office for a 30-day in-processing. Which means I will waste half a day because my recruiter tells me the wrong thing everytime I talk to him. I end up having to cancel work plans beause he takes me on journeys around Massachusetts without even filling me in that I'm leaving the office that day. Like Jim says "I don't mind wasting my time while I'm getting paid, but if I'm not on the clock, then you're pissing me off"
I wonder what It's going to feel like when I'm sleeping in Boston on my last night before I leave. Waking up at 4 am and then sitting in MEPS(Military Entrance Processing Station) and instead of going home like I have the last three times I've journeyed to that facility. I will be taking a bus ride to Logan Airport and hopping on a plane to Chicago to Great Lakes, Il to start my recruit training, or 'Boot Camp'.
I won't be scared because this is what I have dreamed about for years growing up. I've learned so much about my grandfather being in the Air Force and my step father being in the Army that I have been so intrigued over these years about what drove them to make that decision to enlist.
But before this all happens I would like to set some goals for myself to try and attain while I am in the Navy. I set some personal goals while I was in AmeriCorps and I'd like to think that some of them have been accomplished. One great accomplishment would be that I actually completed the whole year with my team. I think that if I hadn't finished with a full team, my year would have completely sucked, I would have thought that the year was a repeat of my previous NCCC year in Denver. Not that that wasn't a great year, I loved every second of it. Everything must change and things can't stay the same all of the time. Another personal accomplishment was to prove to myself that I am capable of being a leader. Last year was the toughest year of my life, I grew leadership skills that I will take with me for years to come. I made some tough decisions that I had only dreamed of being valuable enough to make. Last year showed me how much potential I really have to do great things in this world. So with all of those goals I would now like to set the bar really high for new personal excellence if you would.
I have six years to attain these goals and plenty of time to do great things so here they are.
1) To become more organized
I am always losing my personal belongings, I hate it! I'm one of the oldest recipients of the Congressional Award this year and I leave my cell phone and wallet on the bus or out in the common areas so people have to track me down to give it back to me. Enough of that, I'm going to take care of my personal belongings and never lose anyhing ever again.
2) Stop being lazy
Often times I look around my house and see different jobs that should be done and I don't take action to do them myself. I want to become a hard working human being. I want to get slapped around in boot camp enough that it shows me how much I take for granted around here because this needs to change. While in AmeriCorps I jumped on the opportunity to do extra work or stay later when needed but when I get home I just become lazy. I hope to god that I get in shape about this. What happens when I have kids and own a house someday? I can't just push things back and take care of things later.
3) Get in Shape
Since I've been home I have been maintaning a pretty laxed work-out regiment. I have been running, but nothing like when I was in New Orleans running 20-30 miles a week. I want to come out of boot camp with abs that will cut steel.
4) Quit smoking
Ok this one will be pretty easy in boot camp, it's coming out of boot camp that will be a problem for me. Tons of people in the military smoke cigarettes and the temptations will be there for me to indulge. I just have to stay strong and be healthy. I need to think before I act.
5) Think before I speak
I would think that boot camp will help me with this. It's always been a problem with me, especially when I am speaking. I need to use words when describing objects, not just say 'It's next to the thing' and impersonate myself digging a ditch when the word is just a shovel. Seriously Chris, learn how to talk please.
I will think of more for future posts, but for now I would like to go to bed. I will wake up tomorrow and go to my recruiters office for a 30-day in-processing. Which means I will waste half a day because my recruiter tells me the wrong thing everytime I talk to him. I end up having to cancel work plans beause he takes me on journeys around Massachusetts without even filling me in that I'm leaving the office that day. Like Jim says "I don't mind wasting my time while I'm getting paid, but if I'm not on the clock, then you're pissing me off"
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