i guess i should have a summer update
well this summer was pretty jawesome. after last summer i diddnt think i would ever have five weeks off in a row again, but somehow it worked out that i got to spend five weeks in pensacola. needless to say it wasnt hard at all having a good time in the cola. highlight of the summer was probably the spiritual growth, which isnt usually the case, but between wednesday night church, regular church on sundays, and especially bible study with the nonagons on mondays, i was reminded how nice it is to be surrounded by a body of believers. this compounded with meeting a new friend on cruise who had a lot in common with me made me realize that i need to spend more time with other believers at school. he invited me to the baptist student union that he always goes to on tuesdays, so im going to give that a try for a while in spite of the fact that i have never really considered myself baptist, but i thnk i can get by because i went to a baptist high school.
other than that, skimming, swimming, beaching, camping, fishing and familing. same ole. just read everybody else's entry if you need to know about that.
as for now, i am in Norfolk, VA on the LSD 50 USS Carter Hall, which is basically a huge troop transport. it happens to not be as much fun as san diego was, due to the fact that san diego city was awesome, im not doing cool stuff like flying in planes anymore im just scrubbing floor gratings, and the surface warface community is suprisingly the most uptight and unhappiest guys ive met. its only two more weeks, and the purpose of the cruise is not to have fun, it is to learn what it is like to be an enlisted sailor in the navy, so im just going to go along with it for another two weeks. we actually get to leave the pier after next week, and we will probably end up just cutting cirlces in the atlantic for 5 days.
then when i get back i have to sign my two for sevens, which means im going to go to school for two more years and committ the next seven years of my life to the navy. up until now, anyone can just walk away with nothing owed, but if anyone leaves after they sign, they owe, either money (which is a rediculously overestimated sum of compensation for education, like 250,000) or time in the fleet as enlisted. anyways, its a big deal and there is a big dinner and its not something to do without thinking about it for a while, so ive been giving it a lot of thought, and it would be really really nice to go back to florida and go to school with my friends and go home a lot more and live a normal life for two years and still join the Marines after i graduate from FSU or something, but i really believe that i will be making the right decision by staying.
anycrap, that is what is going on in my world.
casey, out
other than that, skimming, swimming, beaching, camping, fishing and familing. same ole. just read everybody else's entry if you need to know about that.
as for now, i am in Norfolk, VA on the LSD 50 USS Carter Hall, which is basically a huge troop transport. it happens to not be as much fun as san diego was, due to the fact that san diego city was awesome, im not doing cool stuff like flying in planes anymore im just scrubbing floor gratings, and the surface warface community is suprisingly the most uptight and unhappiest guys ive met. its only two more weeks, and the purpose of the cruise is not to have fun, it is to learn what it is like to be an enlisted sailor in the navy, so im just going to go along with it for another two weeks. we actually get to leave the pier after next week, and we will probably end up just cutting cirlces in the atlantic for 5 days.
then when i get back i have to sign my two for sevens, which means im going to go to school for two more years and committ the next seven years of my life to the navy. up until now, anyone can just walk away with nothing owed, but if anyone leaves after they sign, they owe, either money (which is a rediculously overestimated sum of compensation for education, like 250,000) or time in the fleet as enlisted. anyways, its a big deal and there is a big dinner and its not something to do without thinking about it for a while, so ive been giving it a lot of thought, and it would be really really nice to go back to florida and go to school with my friends and go home a lot more and live a normal life for two years and still join the Marines after i graduate from FSU or something, but i really believe that i will be making the right decision by staying.
anycrap, that is what is going on in my world.
casey, out