Oh. My. Gosh. This morning was ridiculous! The roommates and I slept in a little past the alarm- woke up at 5:05a for a 5:20a muster. This morning was PT running day. Not fun. But not as bad as I thought it would be. I know we jogged 1.5, possibly 2 miles. We did stretches, crunches, and push-ups as little breaks while we waited for the whole pack to catch up. It was so hard but we found running buddies and I made it through staying relatively close to the front-middle of the pack. Thank god only 3 more weeks of solid PT (= 12 days total, 6 days running)! One of our running leaders- who I like to say reminds me of a muppet because she so full of energy and pep- Colie told us that marathon runners don’t care about how close they are to the end of their run, or how far they’ve gone, or any of that. They mainly worry about how they look. So we need to keep reminding each other about how good we look! Then to keep us awake during stretch counts she had us count in angry voices, happy voices, and sad voices because everyone takes on such a boring tone to count to 15 twenty times.
Today was pretty normal. Lots of classes. Intro to Units, Alcohol Awareness, Life After AmeriCorps (I know! We’ve been here 7 days and we already have to plan for 10 months away!), Nutrition and Diet Planning, and giving feedback. For dinner my friend Ashley’s team was a fend-for-yourself and she didn’t want to eat by herself. So I opted out of my team dinner to go to the Burger King at the BX (base exchange) with her. Holy crap. The most food I’ve eaten since I’ve been here and the first fast food in a week! Ugh. I could feel it in my veins and oozing out through my pores. We felt so disgusting that we just had to lay out in the grass in the quad and try to digest.
After that stupid idea, we had to move into our permanent rooms. MASS CHAOS! Everyone had to pack everything out of their room and move it into the hall so we could have a TL do room checks.
With everything people brought PLUS the stuff we were issued the hallways were very crowded. Then we had to wait to get the ok to take our stuff out of the building into the parking lot.
More waiting while they let people move in by floor. But now I’m in my official room with 2 girls from my team: Dominique, 22 from Maryland and Carly, 22 from Michigan. We’re all beginning to warm up to each other. I know the team living is going to bring us more out of our Pods (pun!).
Our trip to San Fran has been cancelled.
The boys have duty on Sunday and aren’t allowed to leave campus. So we might be going into Sacramento (which we decided sounds like Sacra-Minnow if you say it fast enough) and hope we get some other weekend off to do some San Fran exploring.
I could not be more excited to sleep in tomorrow!.. until like 8 or 9 (woot!) and then out to lunch at Panera and In-and-Out Burger for dinner with the Pod People.
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