Home Sweet Home...for now

Well! FINALLY on the other side of the globe! Yesterday was the slowest fast day of my LIFE! Haha. We had a 5am wakeup, cleaning, getting ready to clear everything then hurry up and wait. Some odd hours later, we load up onto our huge plane and set out. We landed in the states again to refuel, I got some postcards for my loves and then we jumped on the plane again to head out across the ocean. This leg was 7 hours almost to Germany. It was longggg. But not nearly as long as people made it out to be, someone told me 20 hours!!! Yea, TOTAL! Oh my goodness people are so dumb. Anyways, we landed in Germany and people dipped out on baggage detail, thankfully our troublemakers didn't, but hey not like they can get away with it anyways. Anyways, Nicki and I had a blast throwing the whole brigade's rucks onto a belt to be loaded. And I say this in all seriousness! It sucked to be doing it, but we really made it fun. We were trying to find postcards of just the belly of the plane though since that's really all we saw. Haha =) Unfortunately I forgot to get myself more postcards from Germany! My cousins love it when I send them one from every location and I forgot =(

Some of the battalion

Living situation SUCKS! The only really good thing about it is that I got a nice wall locker and I am close to Becky and my LTs. We're all in an open barracks with wall lockers that section us off. I feel soooo bad for them, they're LIEUTENANTS!!!! And they'res 6 of them crammed in a 4 man area with 5, not 6, broken wall lockers that won't lock. It just suckssss.

I actually started on this about a week ago and saved it so now I will just catch up to today. Not much has been going on, we have a nice set up, I definitely can't complain. I ran my first 5k with my favorite LTs, that was cool. We are running another one on Friday. DFAC food is good. Its SO NICE to wear normal clothes at the end of the work day. Its really crazy not seeing everyone you're used to seeing! We go to work and anyone you don't work with you don't really see much except for in passing. Its crazy.

My brother graduated Airborne this past weekend, SO PROUD! I can't wait to go myself. I get to talk to a doc tomorrow about some career options as far as the Army is concerned. I'm really tired of being an E4 who knows a lot but knows nothing. A contradiction, right? I just feel like I am really quick to catch a problem and we are really slow to fix it. Example. Today, I was asking about my job which entails "actions", about 15 different tasks. I mentioned it to my MSG and she said, "it doesn't apply to us, we're a guard unit". UM! WE HAVE ACTIVE DUTY SOLDIERS WHO FALL UNDER US!!!! Idiot. I do have to know it. But really? I'm sick of arguing to get my point across. Its not even an argument, it just is life. So, I learned it all anyways from my counterpart. Its easy stuff, we are just so ate up its almost comical.

My LT got promoted today and gave me his old rank patch and his blessings. I am going to hang it in my wall locker I think to remind myself of where I'm going. Really excited. Well, I'm sorry guys, thats all I got for now. My mind is in a bajillion places. I'll get on here more and in more detail. Until then, bye!