Archive for the “Army” CategoryThe daily schedule is more or less settled in now. Our biological clocks are adjusted to the time shift. Our day looks something like this:
That’s my boring day It is April, and its snowing! WTF?!?! I just found out that i wasnt the only one that overslept yesterday. 3 other guys slept until about 1pm Sleeping is a good thing, especially when you’ve done your last tour and got about 3.5 hours until you go back to the encampment. Bad thing is when no-one wakes you up. But as i had the car-keys they wouldn’t have left without me As we arrived, we saw that everyone was waiting outside. The key for the encampment was nowhere to be found. Soon it was clear that the key was with someone that was on holiday. Yippee Working during the night has certain advantages. You get through the city with no trouble and you are left in peace. Downsides are that the radio program repeats every 2 to 3 hours and that you get bored between the tours. Still the worst thing is the jet lag. OK, I’ve got a fairly easy job compared to the others. No freezing outside. My girlfriend sent a parcel today. I also sent the address to my mum. Hope there will be a highlight when my name appears on the list in the post-office. 5 more nights to go It seems that blogging via my mobile phone worked quite good. Only downside is, that the number of characters is capped. I don’t know exactly, but I think it’s a problem of my mobile phone and not Wordpress. So don’t wonder if my posts are kept short. At least the smileys work… We are now at our final destination and already working. We had to move our day-schedule by 12 hours. So we’re doing night-shifts for the next 7 days. Food is still quite good, encampment a charm. In about 20 minutes I will go on my next tour to bring the people out to the guarding posts. Hope I find the way As we are working night-shifts at the moment, most of my posts will come during the night or early morning. Will keep you updated. Yesterday was a ‘busy’ day. My main job was delivering food and shuttling people around. OK, I had to get up 1 hour earlier than the others to get breakfast (which took approx. 1/2 hour per way), but it also got me around the training This morning we packed our stuff and moved to our final location for the next two weeks. The encampment is mainly one thing: NICE. We have real beds, nice showers and are close to a larger village. We even have windows. Fresh air! Think we won it this time The first day is almost over. The last taxi-job is almost done. We’ve brought the food containers back to the kitchen and fixed the pickup for breakfast and Zwipf. 6.30 am. And its a 30min drive one way. I hope that our lieutenant honours it somehow that we get up earlier every day. Time will tell… This years WK started as i expected. We arrived at the train-station, and waited. No one to pick us up. About am hour later a bus turned up. After a 10 minute ride we arrived at our destination. We got our material (sleeping-bag, spare uniforms, etc) and ate something. Since then were waiting… Welcome to the army. At least our lieutenant makes a good impression I’m sitting in the train on my way to the other end of Switzerland to serve my country for another 3 weeks. I’ll try to give regular updates on what is happening here. I just hope the mBlogging plug-in works |
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