Well I decided to just culminate the entire weekend into one blog. So much has gone on this weekend, loads of information, team building, uniform standards, watch keeping, eating, and just all around getting to know the campus and my shipmates.
While I have made tons of friends/acquaintances I have also learned that some of the cadets have a hard time letting high school go. The overall standards of this school, in my opinion, will weed out about 1/3 of my class before the end of the first semester.
I did get a chance to do laundry and talk to some great guys about life and their backgrounds. As our commandant said earlier on Sunday, every cadet here has made a career choice, every cadet has decided that they were gonna beat the odds and attend a college unlike any other. The cadets in my division and all around campus are all my shipmates and everyone of them in some way or another are gonna help our class succeed, hopefully the immature attitudes will evaporate once classes start, in the mean time we continue to grow together in anticipation of the upcoming school year.
While O-week has been very long, sometimes boring, this campus is a great place to be and every night when I walk back to ship and look out onto the sunsetting on the bay I can't help but get butterflies because I know that this IS IT, my dream has finally arrived.
Oh! If anyone wants to send me some goodies ;)
Jonathan Anderson
1 Morrow Cove #15
Vallejo, CA 94590
Cheers!
It sounds like you are already growing in this experience. I hope you make some good friends to travel with you on this joiurney! love you!
ReplyDeleteJon, so glad you started a blog; it will be great to check on you:) Sounds like things are going well. God is so good to bring this dream into fruition for you! Hang in there with the tough stuff. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Love, Gayle (for all the Crabs)
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