March 2010
1 post
81 Days
This Saturday night Che and I had our dining out…hilarity ensued. More on that later. Sunday lunch we spent at a friend’s house, having a typical Spanish formal lunch of baked fish and vegetables. Fernando, a merchant ship Captain, told us stories of sailing through the Caribbean and passing the Gulf of Aden. He told us about his long family history of mariners, going back to his...
February 2010
6 posts
90 Days- Final PRT
This morning was my last PRT at the Naval Academy. Five years, ten PRTs and now one of my personally great milestones is seven hours behind me. The PRT is a binding force here at USNA. Everyone, except for Varsity Athletes who take it earlier, gets up on a randomly picked Saturday morning and are mass tested in a matter of hours. We are herded in one set of doors, through certain checkpoints, into...
91 Days- Last weekend
Its Friday at the Naval Academy and one more week had passed. The week directly after Six Week Exams is a nice calm period. I found myself just going through the motions. Needless to say, I needed the calm after the storm.
As I prefaced in my last post, we went to Philadelphia this weekend and celebrated George Washington’s 278th Birthday. Friday night began at the First Philadelphia City...
p.s. The Lutheran
Turbo,
I’m from Southern Illinois.
Very Respectfully,
Ernesto
99 Days- The Lutheran
In lieu of studying for my aerodynamics or weapons exam, I’ll go ahead and write my first post on our new blog. I’m going to attempt something that my colleague avoided in his 1st post…it’s called literacy. I think he had just come down off a three day meth binge when he wrote that blog, even though it is fairly insightful. I would like to formally state that my position...
Intro: 99 days until salvation
Hundredth Night was last night. The ceremonial beginning to an end for a thousand of my classmates and I. Its shocking to be here already, but there is also a feeling that this day should have been here a long time ago. It too easy to hate this place until one day you wake up and realize you are going to miss it. I perceive this to be the underlying motivation for this blog, to capture the awkward...