The Bee Hive

Busy, Busy, Busy. This week would have turned out to be a disaster if i were to react to tasks like i usually would. There was no way to simply accomplish all the tasks at hand on any specific day or by a specific time. In fact, I had to do things little by little each day. I have been thrown out of the loop with my regular schedule, as expected. I haven't been to the gym since saturday.. I know odd right? I have been in the process of packing up my house off post so that i can live on post in the careerist barracks. Translation, I was renting an appartment off post for like 1300.00 a month. I was a two bedroom, one bath and one rediculous excuse for an appartment. It was like half the size of first floor in my townhouse in Ogden and 1.5 X the cost. Anyhow, the barracks are set up like a hotel, but with expected to have two to a room: i lucked out and got one to myself! WooHoo! On top of that, I finished taking our fifth out of nine tests for the french language. I recieved a good report, i received an A- in speaking, B in listening (the hardest, and best grade i have recieved in this category), B+ in reading and a B+ in vocab and grammer. My cumulative has stayed about the same at a 3.3 which is a B+ average. Not too shabby. It will keep me in the award zone for when I graduate, APRIL 1, 2010. Also with moving, I have had to get christmas shopping done, exchange things for the "right" sizes, pay bills... Set up transportation to pick up my house to ship back home, Take care of stupid paperwork for big ARMY well you could understand. I start leave tomorrow at noon, but dont get home until saturday at like umm. midnight to sunday. Hawaii is on the agenda for christmas for the fam and I. I cant wait. ALSO, I get to find out what the gender of our next child is either on the 22nd of december, or if my wife hates me, i'll have to wait until christmas upon our arrival to Kuai. Tomorrow is a half day, I have to give an oral speech to the class about the traditions of christmas in Quebec "En Francais, Bien Sur" and then at 10:45 I have lunch, At 12:00 i am a "free" man, well from duty until the 3 of Jan. We found out today that after we return we have 4 more tests, we have 2, 4day weekend (one in jan from the 15 to 18, one in feb from the 12 to 15) and that we stop learning the language the first week of march to prepare for the test that matters DLPT 5!!! I will return to my lovely "home" town by the 3rd of April, and then on the 10th I have to report to Draper for WLC: Warrior's Learning Course from the 10th to the 24th. It is required for E6, but it wouldn't hurt to have it done before i receive E5 next year. After that, baby is due and we get to live in our house again. Hopefully I get to stay in the US for a bit before i go overseas. I know i am going to morrocco for 2 weeks, and i have to go to Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas for my reclass as a "Crypto-Linguist/French" And maybe i'll go to the police academy and work on finishing my bachelors in science. However, I found out today that for my specific job in french, if i were to go active duty they would station me in Germany and ALL my deployments would be to AFRICA, Both places I would be able to take my family. Highly considering this option, after my bachelors. after that well, warrant officer school and FBI. That is all that is on my mind for now.