Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1602 hours
There are only certain phones capable of calling back home. I thought the one in our dorm was able to so I was all excited about calling one of my friends. It turns out that the phone wasn’t able to call out.. and my exciting plan for the afternoon went out the door.
I literally sat there and thought, this sucks, what is there to do now? I sat there for a whole 5 minutes. I ended up going back to my dorm and sleeping for the night.
As I walked home from work today, I thought about how disappointed I was when I found out that I wasn’t going to be able to make that call. I thought about how there are guys who don’t even get to make phone calls for weeks or months at a time. AP is probably going to have to experience some hard core stuff like that. I thought about how I’ll be able to come home in 4 months and see my friends and family again, and how back in the day some of our great grandparents left their families and friends to come to America; some NEVER seeing there families in person again.
I don’t think I’d ever be able to do something like that. Would you? What I’m doing here is hard enough for me. I like talking to my peoples! I guess it just started to hit me a little bit more. A couple weeks without seeing everyone isn’t so bad because you know that you just saw them. After awhile it starts hitting though. Your not going to be seeing or talking to these people much at all until the fall.
This blog should help a lot. I wanted to share everything with everyone while I was going through basic training… so it will help me a lot to share this experience. That’s all for now.
Tak
There are only certain phones capable of calling back home. I thought the one in our dorm was able to so I was all excited about calling one of my friends. It turns out that the phone wasn’t able to call out.. and my exciting plan for the afternoon went out the door.
I literally sat there and thought, this sucks, what is there to do now? I sat there for a whole 5 minutes. I ended up going back to my dorm and sleeping for the night.
As I walked home from work today, I thought about how disappointed I was when I found out that I wasn’t going to be able to make that call. I thought about how there are guys who don’t even get to make phone calls for weeks or months at a time. AP is probably going to have to experience some hard core stuff like that. I thought about how I’ll be able to come home in 4 months and see my friends and family again, and how back in the day some of our great grandparents left their families and friends to come to America; some NEVER seeing there families in person again.
I don’t think I’d ever be able to do something like that. Would you? What I’m doing here is hard enough for me. I like talking to my peoples! I guess it just started to hit me a little bit more. A couple weeks without seeing everyone isn’t so bad because you know that you just saw them. After awhile it starts hitting though. Your not going to be seeing or talking to these people much at all until the fall.
This blog should help a lot. I wanted to share everything with everyone while I was going through basic training… so it will help me a lot to share this experience. That’s all for now.
Tak
2 comments:
love u gus gus..i always get really excited wen i get ur calls!!
but um..today (May 17) i got a call from a 310 # and i thought it could be u..so i answered it (i usually don't answer #'s i don't know..) and it was some robot tryin to steam clean my rug! sooo..i would like to blame that on u. thanks! haha
Hi Davin,
Keep up the good work, we are proud of you. Please do post on your blog as we enjoy reading it. Why do they call it the "blog", seems odd.
Bet you don't know that this is Lindsey's Mom, Chris.
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