Christmas Break and Beyond

Christmas break is officially over and this past week was my first week back in class. I started the Nursing portion of school on Wednesday and so far its been really easy. We've learned how to wash our hands and talk to people politely - lol. We've already had two tests and I did well on both.

Adjusting back to military life after a couple weeks of civilian life has been pretty good. I'm back in the routine of early mornings, terrible food, marching and uniforms. This week has been a busy week with many long days. Tuesday morning started with drug screening (we thought we'd have a free day since class didn't start until Wednesday). I ended up standing in line from 5:30am to 11am!!! Then we waited around for everyone else to finish. We cleaned the barracks and waited some more... Finally we were set free around 4pm. Some people were still waiting in line for drug testing at 9pm that night!!! I don't think they planned very well. Like I said before, we started classes on Wednesday, so that's pretty much all we did that day. Thursday I had to wake up at 4am so I could go through a medical screening that half our class participated in. Then I had duty muster at 6:15am which lasted about an hour. Then I ate and went to class. I ended up having duty that night from 9pm to 11pm, so I didn't get to bed till late. That was a VERY long day. Friday ended up being an easy day. All we did was go over what we had learned the day before and then we tested on it.

I love weekends, especially when I don't have duty. I've been relaxing all week and loving it!


On a side note, my Grandma died this morning. I woke up to an e-mail from my mom making me aware of it. He was an amazing woman, and an awesome Grandma. She will be missed. Unfortunately I can't make it to her funeral because I can't take time off school. It'll be a difficult week not being there for my family, and not having that same support as I grieve.