New Letter!

Letter #8 to Me:

"10/24/10

Hi Logan,

Got your letter yesterday. I hope you’re not losing my letters! I’ve sent you a whole bunch. I tried to write at least every 3-4 days. I’m kind of wondering about the mail recruit too. We were having a knowledge session and she wouldn’t fill in the spot next to me and said, “I’m not sitting next to you. I’ll probably hit you. I don’t like you… just being honest.” Most of the people here have no people skills. Right now they’re doing this stupid family discussion about everyone’s issues with everyone else… it basically turned into a big criticism session.

Everyone always thinks they know more than you or are better than you and once people started leaving to go back to their free time it turned into a gossip session. I have no respect for over half the people here.

Now that we’re eating a lot more at the male chow hall I’ve gained the weight back. I’m up to 114 now but I’ll probably lose it as soon as we get back. We get so much more food here.

I’m glad they didn’t drop me too. I don’t want to spend any more time here than needed. My knee still hurts a little but not as bad. It’s the worst during the runs but I can get through it. Now I have the same thing in my left knee. It was killing me during the run yesterday. I really need to stretch and ice it so it can get better before our hike back but there never seems to be time. All team week I think we pretty much just get ready for our company commander inspection and get our teeth pulled. Should be fun!

Sorry to hear about your back. Hopefully the steroids start working better and practice won’t hurt as much. At least you can go lay down afterwards and study from bed. I wish I could say November will go by quickly here too, but there’s no telling. Could go either way.

We found out that because of Thanksgiving our Crucible will start on Monday Nov. 22 and end on the 24^th so make sure you change that on your calendar. That Sunday we can make phone calls so expect one sometime in the morning. I’m definitely getting real food that day too!

Starting this week we have 40 days left until graduation. Its really starting to wind down. I’m hoping to get 30 days of recruiters assistance right after so I’ll actually get to spend the holidays at home but there are no guarantees. It would be nice. I got my first bank statement the other day. My first 2 wk paycheck was almost $700.

Ok, I should probably study now. I’ll write again.

Love, Chelsea

P.S. Thanks for Alex’s address. I got a letter from him a few days ago. He said they have males and females in their platoon and he’s having a great time right now.”