This Army Life...

Well hello my lovlies!

I know it's strange to see me posting on a Saturday, but I've got a little time before first formation and the internet is on its best behavior for now, so I figured I might try to crank something out. 

Unfortunately, my whole life is revolving around the military right now, so you will probably get to read a whole lot about that for the next little while. Hopefully I'll get to do some exciting things that will have nothing to do with the military and you won't be so bored with my ACU wardrobe. 

For the past two weeks, we have just been in class, which is apparently what we'll be doing for the remainder of my stay here. As of right now, AIT isn't so bad. There are a few annoying things that I wish weren't so, but I guess that is just how the military works. Things don't always go your way.

Last Wednesday when we started our course work for my job we got these study guides...Check this thing out.

Yeah...it's crazy. Luckily, the material is pretty easy, as far as I can tell. I think that this will be a pretty good warm up for college. It will get my brain in the school mind-set so I can be successful there.

Currently, I'm just chillaxing in my room killing sometime before I have to get in first formation. 

Usually, when I have down time, I straighten my boot display, make my bed, or I pretend to clean my locker. that thing...I clean it, then it's messy the next second. I swear it's impossible for it to stay clean. I do a lot of laundry and tons of working out.

Living in the barracks and sitting around all the time is causing me to understand why these types of videos are produced so often...

This video...it doesn't reflect upon my opinion of Gay people in the military..I just liked the video!

Who Do You Want To Be?

When you're in the military, although you are constantly surrounded by people, you end up being alone with your thoughts quite frequently. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but I end up thinking about everything. I think about it in depth. I don't just scratch the surface but I think a thought until I scratch all the way down to the core of that thought that I think. 

For the past couple days, I've been thinking about a question that you get asked from the moment you can string words into a sentence: What do you want to be when you grow up? Don't ask why, I just have been. 

It's funny how often I got asked that question.  I'm sure it was no more or less than any other kid. My answers have changed a lot since the first time I was asked that question. I've gone from wanting to be a teacher, to wanting to be a dancer, to wanting to be a writer, to wanting to be a police officer, to wanting to be a Marine to actually becoming a Soldier. 

Now that I am "grown up" and I have become something, I think it's about time to become...someone. You get asked all the time what you want to be. It's as if what your profession has to define the kind of person you are. I want to people to want to know who I am instead of what. 

I'm pretty sure that this experience is helping me to find that out. I've been through a lot in my 19 (almost 20!) years and I'm only going to go through a whole lot more. It's hard to be away from my home. I feel like I'm missing out on so much and it's going to take a toll on me but I'm trying to take good things out of it and become a better person every day. 

And on a side note...there are only 19 days until I turn 20!