Well I'm sorry it's been so long!!! It's taken forever for our internet cafe to get set up. But I'm here in Afghanistan and more or less settled in now. I guess we've been here for almost 2 weeks, but it feels like much longer! As much as I want to be positive and optimistic, right now I'm more homesick then I've ever been on one of these trips. My job entails spending lots of time in an office doing Rations Control, which is neither challenging nor rewarding. I stare longingly at the combat units that are always passing our living area getting ready for or coming back off of missions. I know that life is much more dangerous, but it always made sense to me. In my current position I'm responsible for nobody but myself, which means I don't have enough to do OR to think about, leaving entirely too much time to think about what else I could be doing/wish I were doing.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the rumors of me getting switched to another position as a sort of training liason/special missions NCO will come true. At least in that kind of roll I could put my skills to some use...and I would have Soldiers to look after again, which would make me a very happy camper. In the meantime I'm busting my butt to get enrolled in courses so I can FINALLY finish my degree and as soon as I kick the bronchitis I came down with I'll be back in the gym working on gettin' my butt back into shape!! Let's just say fitness and good eating were low on my list of priorities the last few months before the deployment. And as they say you reap what you sow...
I think that's it for now, I'll be online much more frequently so hopefully we can get this blog up and running again! And hey...does anyone have any ideas on how to get me from here to my Tio Hugo's beach house in Valparaiso, Chile?? Something tells me that would be a lot more fun!!
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