Last Week

Last week was pretty busy, so I didn't take the chance to write in the blog as much as I should have. Anyway, last week was tons of fun in the ROTC. Thursday morning was pretty normal, they worked us out pretty good, actually really good, we did many push-ups and flutter kicks. Then in what seemed like fun, we got to play volley ball. Well, it was fun, until the rule came up that if the ball goes out of bounds then everyone has to yell "Safety!" if its not yelled loud enough then push-ups were the reward, we did a lot of push-ups. We, the 47th flight won the game and that was about it. Later that day was classes and classes, we learned more about world war II and about Air Force stuff. Lead lab was the fun part, sort of. I had spent many hours during the week ironing my stuff and polishing my boots, I looked sharp. Then I had to go to lead lab. We were going to do service projects around BYU campus, I was worried that we would have to get dirty or something, and yeah, I did. We had to weed this dirty dry hill side and dig in the bushes and stuff, it was fun, don't get me wrong. I just didn't like getting my boots dirty because I knew that I had an inspection at the AAS candidate meeting that night. Oh yeah, and another reason that I looked so good is because this was the first time that I had used my cuff stuffers, they are these things that you put on your pants to keep the pants against the boots. Well, it was all trashed. I really didn't get that dirty, I just got dusty, and my polishing job was toast. Well the rest of the day went okay, I had to take a test at UVSC and then that night I had Cadet Choir Practice and the AAS Candidate meeting, since there was going to be an inspection I had to stay in my BDUs. Choir went fine and then the AAS meeting came up, since there was an inspection we had to be put in the right formation, open ranks. For this inspection we had to stand at attention while the Cadet officers went through and inspected us. When your standing at attention you cant move or anything, no blinking, no smiling no nothing. So the officers tried things to make us break our bearing, they played some audio from homestarrunner. com and some of the cadets were laughing, even though they weren't supposed to, I did a pretty good job of keeping a straight face until the end of the audio they were playing, it was just too funny, I lost it for a few seconds and that was about it. The rest of the AAS meeting we had to pass off memorization, all of which I did not know before going. We had to know the Chain of Command and MAJCOMs and the air force song, well, I didn't know any of it. So I tried learning the Air Force song and we had to sing it to them so we could get it passed off, it was pretty funny. And a lot of fun. I got home about 10pm and was grateful to get out of that uniform!