Yep yep, the snow has fallen on Trine University to ignite the winter season a wee bit early, (about 2 months early hehe) :P but it's totally what I needed. I mean, when you have snow, that automatically grants you the ability to snuggle up in a blanket with a cup of hot cocoa while watching a movie (i'm feeling Moulin Rouge tonight!) and heck! let's throw in a couple sugar cookies in there too! Ahhhhh.... this weekend looks like it's gonna turn out all right. ;)
This week has defiantly flown by! It feels like yesterday I was at AFROTC getting ready for the Army ROTC Leadership Lab. OH! Speaking of which, oh my god, that Lab was AWESOME! Okay, not as awesome as meeting Stan Lee, but it's up there.
What we did was, in our ABU's (Airmen Battle Uniform aka Camoflauge) we headed over to some fields after class to where the Army ROTC was hosting our Leadership Lab. We all were forewarned to not be offended if an Army Cadet raises their voice to you, so I'm like "HECK YES!!! I'm gonna be yelled at and called a Maggot and what not!" serious dudes, I was excited for this! (crazy i know) So we get there, split up in our flights (Go Echo Flight!) and then headed to our appropriate station to begin training. Our first station: Army Crawl! yaaaaaah!!! My partner and I Army Crawled under the obstacle course and then ran to the combat zone where we had to cover and run. My partner and I would lay in the prone postition and then when I was ready to run I'd yell, "COVER ME WHILE I MOVE!" then she'd yell "GOTCHA COVERED" and I'd yell, "MOVING!" and roll left or right then get up and run for not more than 3 seconds to only drive back down to the ground in the prone position and yell "DOWN!". Then my partner would yell out the same commands as I did while I covered her and dudes, that was AWESOME!! I wish Leadership Lab was more like that always! So anywho, after that we all were allowed to try the Low Crawl which is like the Army Crawl only you're flat on your stomach, face in the ground, and you literally crawl by grabbing the grass as far in front of you and pulling yourself to it. I was about to go, but one of the Cadet's has I guess chronic shoulder dislocation and ended up, well, dislocating her shoulder in the middle of the course so all the rest of us weren't allowed to go through. Sucks, I really wanted to try it, ah well, next time!
After that we went off to the Operations and Objective station where we learned how to attack and sweep an objective with your artillery and support teams. This was pretty cool, setting up a strike and then putting it in action. There was a lot of strategy there!
Then, we headed off to the EPW Take Down Station (I'm making up all these names for the stations i just can't remember their real ones, just a fyi :P haha) where we were taught how to take out an Enemy Prisoner of War. Pretty much, this was my favorite station. They showed us what commands to make and what actions to take if an enemy is near. So, when we were given the chance to encounter an EPW I, well.... ended up "killing" the guy. Haha, not literally killing him, just role playing. I commanded him to put his gun down and he refused to, so I told him again to and he charged at me, so I charged back and he still didn't stop so I "fired" a warning shot (the guns we used were fake) and he still resisted so, I "shot" him. haha :P Hey, he had it coming!! Then I had to check the "dead" body and make sure he didn't have any explosives on him or anything, it was a lot of fun dudes!
Then finally the last station we had was the Hand Signals Stations, where they taught us how to make commands in a stealth environment, meaning only using your hands, not your voice to make commands. I learned a ton! Like the command for Wedge Formation is like making a hand telephone, freeze of course is a fist, hault is an open palm and just a bunch of others! It was so much fun! What wasn't fun was having to run back to the Detachment after that 2-hour Leadership Lab in boots and full camo. Gosh was I tired!
Besides that my week has been pretty laid back. I had a micro-econ test yesterday and found out my score today: 31 out of 30. Crazy right!?!?! haha Chinese was fun too, it always is! Learn something new everyday, like the song Old McDonald had a Farm, well I guess in China they have their own version of it! Small world. :P
Well alrighty peeps, I'm gonna head out and see if there's any flakes still floating outside! and REMEMBER Sunday is Daylight Savings Time, we move back an hour, so be happy for an extra hour of sleep on Sunday night!!! :DDDD
-Peace Out-
~Annie
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