Apr 24, 2006 09:07
my great aunt gave me a salacious card. it's very amusing.
so i walked 50 miles at the weekend. i am now so stiff. i've learnt loads of rude marching songs and feel really happy i'm in the air force. ooh also i got a medal, one of the ones that you pin onto clothing, i'll take a picture one day. there were 1500 troops marching all with flags and banners and one guy had a trumpet. i know it sounds really corny and rubbish but there was one point when we were marching through a deep forest and it was really muddy and we were all in camouflage and it felt the closest to war i've ever felt. how bizarre is that? and we entered a valley and it was huge and the trumpet man started playing the last post... a little inappropriate but still stirring.
and i've never seen someone take their socks off and rip the skin off the back of their feet before. and then continue to march the remaining 17 miles.
i think things are going to be ok. i see the tiniest chink of light at the end of the tunnel.