hi from japan:)

okay so first and foremost, when i opened the page everything was written in japanese and it took me a solid 5 min to figure out how to get this thing back into english...haha.

anyway i made it in last night and went straight to a bbq w/ all the officers, so that was tough cause i couldn't sleep on the plane so when i got there i had been up for about 23 hrs straight and was starting to drag...but i got up this morning and put everything in my room and got settled in...kind of. we go underway on wed for a little over 2 months. we are going to stop in at several places...apparently this is one of the best deployments the ship has had for a long time so it should be kind of cool. I'm going for the whole thing and then I'll come back and go to EKMS school...which is about message sending-this is one is for my job--communitcations officer COMMO, yes it is official, that will be my job.

so I probably won't have my own place until towards the end of october, so until then i will be living on the ship, kind of stinks, but oh well. I haven't had a chance to really do or see anything so once I get the chance to explore it seems like there is just so much to see.

hope everybody is doing well!

still in diego

I am about to start my second-and final week of ammo supply school. It is probably one of the worst classes I have ever been to...it is basiclly a how-to on using this computer software that looks like the 70's called and want their program back. The software is used to order and keep track of ammo...so it is about as uncool as it could get, but it is almost over.

I've been hiking a few times, it is very different from what I am used to-there are no trees and it gets so hot, but it is very beautiful and always fun. I also saw Live Free or Die Hard, I highly reccommend seeing it, especially in the theater. Other than that I have just been visiting with friends and going to school. I am probably going to go to a Padres game this week and Nisa is looking into a horse race this weekend-I've never been to one, but it could be fabulous.

I still don't have an address and I will not have one for a while-sorry. I leave for Japan on July 25, get there the 27th which is a friday. My ship goes underway until october so once I get there I'll send out that address, but I won't have an apartment until oct/nov.

living the rough life

So I have been in San Diego for a week now and it has been very relaxing. All I had to do last week and this week is call in around 7 am and tell them I am alive, and then I don't have to do anything for the rest of the day. It has been great seeing friends, going to the beach, hiking, and just relaxing everyday.

I just found out that I am going to be the communications officer when I get to my ship, not the gunnery officer, which doesn't make going to ammunition school very logical, but I can't complain. I also found out that we are going on a short deployment the day after I get to Japan until October. I don't know the exact date when I get back, but there is nothing like throwing me right into the work.

I miss St. Louis already, but the weather here is making it a little easier to be away:)