Saturday, October 8, 2011

The first few days...

When leaving for CA at 5am on Thursday morning, I fully expected to be safely in CA by 10 am.  However, the Frontier Airlines computer system was down, meaning they needed to use the snail approach to getting documents faxed and cleared for take off.  We did not actually leave the MKE airport until 10:30am, meanwhile our connecting flight took off from Denver, CO at like 9:30am.  By the time we got to Denver, we had missed our flight, and the next earliest flight would be leaving at 6pm.  So, a couple girls and I sat around for 6 and a half hours waiting for our flight out of Denver.  That flight was delayed until about 7pm, so we finally arrived in Sacremento at about 8:45pm (Sac time).  So if you haven't figured out the math by now, I spent a total of 17 hours travelling to finally get to campus.

Since we were scheduled to arrive at 10am and we didn't get to campus until 9:30pm, we missed our entire first day of meeting new people and making friends...boooo

Yesterday, I felt sick to my stomache all day after drinking some not so good tap water...and eventually was physically ill a few times : / Went to bed at 7:30pm while everyone else was busy hanging out with their new friends.

This is not supposed to sound like a pity-party, however I do have some catching up to do.  I plan to play capture the flag tonight, and cheer on some fellow "pod" members at their PACK test tomorrow morning.

We wore our uniforms for the first time on Saturday:


This is my "Pod" or my temporary team until we get our permanent teams next week Thursday:


Our "Muster" spot, or meeting spot is next to the Port-O-Potties:





We have our "baseline" tests on Tuesday morning which consist of a timed run, push ups and sit ups.  Wish me luck!