Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Moving on up

Hey guys! So I haven’t written in a while but I hope I’ve kept you pretty up to date on the phone. Lately, we’ve been really busy helping the upper class graduate and preparing to in-process the lower class (aka “LowBots”, since we’re in the BOT-basic officer training program). We’re excited to be the upper class because a lot of the attention (and yelling) will be on fixing all the lowbots and getting them in gear. As I mentioned, I’ll be interacting with them on sort of a different level because while I need to keep holding them to their training standards, I will also be responsible for being cognizant of their morale. I’ll work to help them be comfortable enough to come to me if they need a more sane upperclassmen to talk to in the first days and weeks here.

In honor of this new class, I found a picture that was taken of me on TD-0 shortly after I arrived. Posting on the wall with our Talon (the book) in our face and/or getting yelled at and reciting information from the Talon pretty clearly characterizes a lot of our first weeks here! The funny thing now is that on Wednesday we’ll be those people in the blues…7 weeks to get this far and about 6 more to go till we’re on our way out J Love you all and look forward to talking soon.

Jeff

2 comments:

Jan Mnich said...

This is dad, but I'm writing for Mom after setting up her Google Account.

Great to hear of your travels Stevie! Mom is excited to begin communicating with you and your brother and sister, complete with pics!

See ya!

Jan Mnich said...

Great to hear from you Jeff (this is Dad)...cool to see you can upload pics. They don't sensor them?

One more month Jeff! Mom's arranging the travel plans for us and we are excited! Looking forward to congratulating your on your great accomplishment Jeff....love you!

Dad (vicariously through Mom)