Climbing

The other day we went to Inner Peaks climbing center in Monroe. It was the first time I'd been climbing in three years or so. I had a blast, but my arms were almost too sore to ride my bike home afterwards. Here's a couple of pictures.

Home for Christmas

School is over for real now. Grad went well, but was pretty cold. An outside 2-hour graduation at the end of December. Great... After that was all over, Trevor, Travis, Tim, and I went to see the USS Yorktown. That was cool. I have never been over there before. It is definitely worth seeing. We drove back up that night, got home around 2200, and then I had to be up next morning to go pick Tabitha and Matthew up from the airport. They had been planning a surprise arrival here for a couple of months. Mom or Dad didnt' know they were coming for Christmas and everyone was surprised. So now it's Christmas Eve, and things are kind of settled. Derrick Nissley and Ruth Gossner are here for Christmas, too. Sort of a normal holiday time for my family. All the family is here plus a few other 'family' members who aren't actually related. I'm glad my family is so open with their home.

Here's a picture of us guys before we left to head back home on Thursday, and one of Bucky messing around in my 'Dixie Cup', or white hat.

I'm DONE!!!

School is over. Finally. We took Comp yesterday, and that was the last of it. Now it's just paper work, grad practice, stuff like that. We don't get Comp scores until this afternoon, but I think I did alright. It was a really, really tough exam. A lot harder than I was expecting. I think a lot of people failed. We'll see though. People that fail Comp have to stay here for an extra week (right through Christmas) to study and take a re-Comp. That would be miserable. Hopefully not as many people failed as it seems like right now.

I get to see my family in two days, too. I can't wait!

Pictures

Here they are:

My last view before leaving my room in the barracks.















My room:















Curt's room, aka the living room















My first attempt at making bread in quite a while

Weekend... finally

Well, it's the weekend. The last weekend here at NNPTC. All my stuff is moved out, my barracks room is clean and inspected, and all I have to do now is take Comp on Monday, and I'm done. Grad is on Thursday morning at 9:00. After that, Trevor, Travis, Tim and I are going to go tour the USS Yorktown here in Charleston, and then head up to Waxhaw on Friday morning for Christmas.

All moved in... sort of

I finally got all my stuff moved out of the barracks. The last stuff came over with me after school today. Tomorrow at lunch I'm going to vacuum, scrub and dust, and then hopefully get my checkout inspection tomorrow afternoon, and then I will be officially moved out. As for moving in, all my stuff is here now, but it'll take some sorting and unpacking and stuff before I can really say I'm 'moved in'.

I put in 14 hours at school today. 5:00AM to 7:00PM. What a day. Tomorrow is our last subject final exam, which is three hours and a lot of points. Then we have a weekend to study, and Monday is the four hour, 400 point big, big exam. It covers the last 12 months of school, 11 different subjects, and lots and lots of material. But then I'll be done!!! I can't wait. I'll post pictures of my apartment as soon as I unpack that little doohickey that lets me get the pictures from my camera to my computer.