NOOOOOOOO!!!

I woke up this morning and it is snowing!!! It is April 30th WTF!!!

I thought that the snow was going to go away, but now I think that it is never going to go away

awful

that is how you would describe the class that I am taking this week, just plain awful. I know some of the fire courses that are taught to us aren't put together in the best way so it always isn't the instructors fault when the class is bad, but that is not the case here folks. we are stuck with instructors, that just don't really know how to teach and are unprepared

oh well.

I found out today I fly to Galena on tues, I originally thought that I was leaving on sunday, but am not til tuesday. which means that I will have an extra day to do some of the online training that I need to know, somehow I have never have had to do all this online stuff before, I am not sure how we got out of doing some of it, but we did but now I have to do it and it is pretty noninteresting government stuff.

I got a suprise in the mail today. My old boss sent me this I thought that it was pretty cool. I don't know anyone else who has gotten something like this when they have left the crew, I know some people have gotten a framed photo but not a framed patch like this. It is pretty cool, because just someone today asked me if I got a patch when I left, patches are hard to come by they don't just hand them out on arrowhead so I was pretty excited that I got one.

Blah

that is how I would describe my day today. I spent the morning doing pre-work for a class that I found out I was taking and then in the afternoon I went and sat thru the first part of this class...if today was an indication of what the rest of the class is going to be like, then I am in big trouble....it was super boring....it doesn't help that I have already sat thru 2 weeks of training, but at least that stuff was interesting

oh well you can't turn down training so ya gotta take it when it is offered to you....

sorry I still haven't taken any pictures...it has been so gray and blah here the last few days that it is like winter returned...ok winter did return snow and all, but not as much snow as those of you in MN got. It was just starting to get nice and bam here comes winter again.....It gotta be spring sometime right?

camping

we spent the last two days camping for work...we did lots of alaska specific fire scenarios so that was good.

it was pretty nice out, the snow is starting to melt, and some people claim that they have seen mosquito, but I don't believe them. I don't think it is warm enough for them. yet

we are supposed to get snow tonight booooo

I only have one day of classroom training left yipeee

and then on fri we have another fire simulation

then its the weekend and I have no clue what I am going to do, probably work on packing up a bunch of my stuff so I can get it ready for when I go to Galena

well its time for me to go to work....boo who!!

life on fort wainwright

Well, my first week of work is over. All went pretty well.

I was in training all week and will be all of next week, so that kind of sucks, but at the same time I am learning alot

I found out that I will be going out to Galena earlier than I had thought, I figured I would be going out in late may, but it turns out that I am heading out there around may 5th...well actually I am heading to some villages first to train some of the native crews there, and then I am heading to galena. it will be an experience to see some of these villages.

what else do I know, hmm last night a bunch of us headed out to watch one of the guys play at a local bar.....so all you techies will love this. The university of Alaska Fairbanks is here in town and I learned yesterday that they have a bar on campus in the their student union building...it was definitely different walking into a building like the mub to go to the bar. Although I am sure that the students here need to drink in the winter when it is dark for like 22 hrs aday....but it was pretty fun.

not much in store tonight, just kind of chillin it was 50 degrees out today cloudy but 50 and most of the locals broke out the flip-flops and shorts...yes I am serious.
I think most people here are ready for spring to roll around. hopefully it comes soon, because the sooner it does the sooner I get busy

One that cracks me up is that growing up in Northern MN I am used to seeing and doing it myself....what is that you may ask.....plugging in your car when it is cold. At home lots of people plug there car in so it will start in the morning, but it is nothing like here.....you see places to plug you car in everywhere....at home it was just an extension cord run from somewhere....here they are everywhere

living on the military base is def different... I hear helicopters and shooting at all sorts of hours.....we live and work right by the runway hence the helicopters and across the river behind our housing is woods, hence the shooting exercises.

Another difference is that to run outside you are supposed to wear this bright green reflective sash... One day Ill take a picture of mine it is sexy.

well that is all for the time being

later gators