Well its been a month since ive been back so its time to write a follow up to the follow up i guess.
The first follow up was pretty much spot on, being a chef is not best thing in the world.
Took me about a week to get over the jetlag, although my mum still belives i've got it because i loose track of thought very easily....... ooooo look a bird...
What? where was i?
Oh right yeah. Well if you havent heard already, im single again. 2 weeks left of the tour and we split up. I'm not going into it on here. But i guess it'll be good advice to anyone in the future who's thinking of going out there. Dont go if you want to stay together, do go if you don't.
I'm on leave now in sunny sheffield.
Well, thought i'd write something to conclude the conclusion.
Dan
Far East Movement - Like a G6
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Sunday 17 October 2010
End-Ex on The Falklands
Well i suppose i best conclude the Falklands experience and put it to rest. At the moment im just above Dekar, traveling at 580 mph around 35000 feet and its -45 degrees out side.
If i think of the tour as a daily thing, even weekly i would say that it was shit, a joke and would never come again. But if i think of it as a whole i would have to say i really enjoyed it, all though i wouldnt want to come back i could handle it again. Ive met some awesome people, made some great friends down the line. Yeah i know the RAF are all pink and fluffy and the army are green meat heads but some of us do actually get on really well.
This tour has also made me make a definate decicion to transfer which im gonna start soon as i can. Got about 2 months leave to take too hahaha. Shame matts joining up so soon, not seen him in 6 months. STill i get a couple of hours with him in the car before he gets dropped off.
Well been in the air 13 hours up to now, got the muchies but air food dont really do much for me, I have however got some fat water, which is totally calerifick.
Looking forward to freedom, family, polution, decent bacon, driving, double bed, nice grass, no goose shit, car, new clothes!, better tv, Radio 1, Civilisation, Real fucking milk, Broardband, big tv, nice carpet, shopping, getting off this plane, new films, some bass, propper roast, Thunder, not been woke up by the planes, no more block jobs, Fresh chips and a rissole. OMFG Helmands mayo!
Well thats just a short list for now. Cant wait.
So, falklands. If i had too again i would, but not as a chef.
Met some great peoples.
Realised flying for 18 hours isnt funny.
Knock knock
whose there?
daniel
daniel who?
daniel headford.....
sophies joke not mine.
All the best to the people that are still stuck out there, soon be over.
Mood - Happy for it to be over, but sad to be leaving some people behind.
One(your name) - Sweedish house Mafia
9.3
If i think of the tour as a daily thing, even weekly i would say that it was shit, a joke and would never come again. But if i think of it as a whole i would have to say i really enjoyed it, all though i wouldnt want to come back i could handle it again. Ive met some awesome people, made some great friends down the line. Yeah i know the RAF are all pink and fluffy and the army are green meat heads but some of us do actually get on really well.
This tour has also made me make a definate decicion to transfer which im gonna start soon as i can. Got about 2 months leave to take too hahaha. Shame matts joining up so soon, not seen him in 6 months. STill i get a couple of hours with him in the car before he gets dropped off.
Well been in the air 13 hours up to now, got the muchies but air food dont really do much for me, I have however got some fat water, which is totally calerifick.
Looking forward to freedom, family, polution, decent bacon, driving, double bed, nice grass, no goose shit, car, new clothes!, better tv, Radio 1, Civilisation, Real fucking milk, Broardband, big tv, nice carpet, shopping, getting off this plane, new films, some bass, propper roast, Thunder, not been woke up by the planes, no more block jobs, Fresh chips and a rissole. OMFG Helmands mayo!
Well thats just a short list for now. Cant wait.
So, falklands. If i had too again i would, but not as a chef.
Met some great peoples.
Realised flying for 18 hours isnt funny.
Knock knock
whose there?
daniel
daniel who?
daniel headford.....
sophies joke not mine.
All the best to the people that are still stuck out there, soon be over.
Mood - Happy for it to be over, but sad to be leaving some people behind.
One(your name) - Sweedish house Mafia
9.3
Saturday 18 September 2010
My Birthenday
Well im 25, quarter of a century. Jeeze. What have I achived? Seen a fair part of the world, got my own car, enough money to keep me happy for a while and i survived the reccesion spending happily like it didnt even happen. In a way im glad i joined up when i did, good money for what i do and a few perks. But there is a bad side, Keeps you away from your family and loved ones alot, puts alot of strain on relationships and this posting is by far the hardest yet for that.
Well last few weeks has sailed by with out much really happening. Last week i did guard, a whole week of watching films and drinking brews (a whole week out of the kitchen though) Had a laugh and slept a fair bit. Next week im in pastry for a week. A whole week high on sugar, maybe there will be moshing also.
Only got 4 weeks left, 30 days. Maybe even less if my replacment get here on the 16th. Wooooooo the end is nigh.
Other news, few blogs ago i talked about a certain annoying person here. Well he's leaving a few months earlyer than he should be. Cant really say much at the moment but turns out he's poked too many people the wrong way, things snowballed, complaints were made and the fuzz were asked to get involved. Mary fookin LOLins only think i dont like is he's getting out of here before me, but still maybe i'll have a more peacfull and happy last month. So'long
The weather has been nice on and off, its like ooooooooooooo the suns out [goes outside. Ahhhhhhhhhhhr so is the wind!] This place would be a hell of alot better with out the wind, indeed.
Song - Katy Perry-Peacock [seriously you need to listen to this, i am quite confused but strangly aroused by the song, got a feeling there wont be a video on MTV any time soon though]
Mood - i really dont know, im happy its nearly done, but i know that im still here for the now.
6.8
Stab me with your lasers....
Well last few weeks has sailed by with out much really happening. Last week i did guard, a whole week of watching films and drinking brews (a whole week out of the kitchen though) Had a laugh and slept a fair bit. Next week im in pastry for a week. A whole week high on sugar, maybe there will be moshing also.
Only got 4 weeks left, 30 days. Maybe even less if my replacment get here on the 16th. Wooooooo the end is nigh.
Other news, few blogs ago i talked about a certain annoying person here. Well he's leaving a few months earlyer than he should be. Cant really say much at the moment but turns out he's poked too many people the wrong way, things snowballed, complaints were made and the fuzz were asked to get involved. Mary fookin LOLins only think i dont like is he's getting out of here before me, but still maybe i'll have a more peacfull and happy last month. So'long
The weather has been nice on and off, its like ooooooooooooo the suns out [goes outside. Ahhhhhhhhhhhr so is the wind!] This place would be a hell of alot better with out the wind, indeed.
Song - Katy Perry-Peacock [seriously you need to listen to this, i am quite confused but strangly aroused by the song, got a feeling there wont be a video on MTV any time soon though]
Mood - i really dont know, im happy its nearly done, but i know that im still here for the now.
6.8
Stab me with your lasers....
Monday 23 August 2010
18-8-10
Well it official, ive hit to wall, lost my drive, its like groundhog day, every day seems like the one before only the weather changes.
Its happened on most excersises before bar one, which was jordan. I thank Davie for that (and Charles Dellon) I really cant type the hatered for this place that im feeling, it doesnt help when ''he who shall not be named'' is being a complete tool and doing everything in his power to either divide the kitchen in 2 (RAF/ARMY) or generly not doing anything on shift, bar watch tv and sulk. He managed to get the tv confiscated because all he did was sit and watch football.
So onto another thing, the flight. This is the single most boring thing i have ever experianced, 18 or so hours stuck in a room,with only the things you bring. Sure music is good, will it last for 18 hours? do you grow tired of the music that youve probably heard many times before? Books are good but will you grow tired of looking at the letters, forming them into words and sentences picturing what they are telling you in your minds eye. Who knows, two months time i'll find out again for the 4th time, at least i'll be in the knoledge that i will never return to this hole and if i have too, it will not be for a very long long time indeed.
So the week was well.... the same as any other week with the added difference of well nothing worth mentioning.
I changed my room round that was the high point of it all,
not even the lows of bone shattering bass bring much enjoyment any more.
The only good thing about this place is that you can think, alot, but thinking about that now is it such a good thing?[see, this is what im talking about, im begining to babble about nothing in particular to fill the void]
So with the thinking, i dont want this job any more there are other things i feel i would bo better.
Im good with computers, always learning new things but have no formal qualifications to show what i can do, so as much as it pains to say there out of the window till i can prove my work.
Diving, yes i know that diving jobs are few and far between in the army but i though i'de trow it in the mix because i really do enjoy it.
Dog handler, strange i know, this on bit me in the ass when i was here, dont need any qualifications for this one, i like dogs and i think i would really enjoy the job.
The final option literaly will be the last straw, where i have no other choice and have to do something. I cant just come out of the army as i am now and get a job in civvy street, yeah im a good chef but i want to stear away from it for a while, i enjoy it but i need a break. So i come out, and have a couple of options, computing/diving. I really do suck info up about computers and grasp what im doing fast, there averywhere aswell so it wouldnt be too hard to get re-employed when ive done the propper training.
Diving, there are tons of places that do dive training round the world, ranging from 5 weeks to 6 months train time. There are also a number of avenues that i can go down, Instructor, Marine Biology, Marine conservation. Under water wood welder[UWWW], dolfin trainer.
So, even though i've thought of all these wonderfull things i'd like to do i'm still undecided. I still think that the econamic climate is unsettled and employers are still being carefull, too carefull if you ask me.
I know what ever i put my mind too i will achive it, i told someone once that i really wanted to go diving and they said it was just a pipe dream that i would never achive, well i fucking showed you didnt i. Went and dived the Zenobia init blad.
So i think i best draw to an end as im sure youve had enough. I feel better for writing this, the wall feels one less step away now. But it has been hit i will not deny that, i sometimes wonder what i'll think when i read this in a years time, problably be like ''jeeze i moaned like a bitch, why did people read this''
3.2
Song - Massive Attack vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Teardrops Under The Bridge
Mood - Fuck this, i want to be a pirate. ahhhhhhrrrrrrrr!
Its happened on most excersises before bar one, which was jordan. I thank Davie for that (and Charles Dellon) I really cant type the hatered for this place that im feeling, it doesnt help when ''he who shall not be named'' is being a complete tool and doing everything in his power to either divide the kitchen in 2 (RAF/ARMY) or generly not doing anything on shift, bar watch tv and sulk. He managed to get the tv confiscated because all he did was sit and watch football.
So onto another thing, the flight. This is the single most boring thing i have ever experianced, 18 or so hours stuck in a room,with only the things you bring. Sure music is good, will it last for 18 hours? do you grow tired of the music that youve probably heard many times before? Books are good but will you grow tired of looking at the letters, forming them into words and sentences picturing what they are telling you in your minds eye. Who knows, two months time i'll find out again for the 4th time, at least i'll be in the knoledge that i will never return to this hole and if i have too, it will not be for a very long long time indeed.
So the week was well.... the same as any other week with the added difference of well nothing worth mentioning.
I changed my room round that was the high point of it all,
not even the lows of bone shattering bass bring much enjoyment any more.
The only good thing about this place is that you can think, alot, but thinking about that now is it such a good thing?[see, this is what im talking about, im begining to babble about nothing in particular to fill the void
So with the thinking, i dont want this job any more there are other things i feel i would bo better.
Im good with computers, always learning new things but have no formal qualifications to show what i can do, so as much as it pains to say there out of the window till i can prove my work.
Diving, yes i know that diving jobs are few and far between in the army but i though i'de trow it in the mix because i really do enjoy it.
Dog handler, strange i know, this on bit me in the ass when i was here, dont need any qualifications for this one, i like dogs and i think i would really enjoy the job.
The final option literaly will be the last straw, where i have no other choice and have to do something. I cant just come out of the army as i am now and get a job in civvy street, yeah im a good chef but i want to stear away from it for a while, i enjoy it but i need a break. So i come out, and have a couple of options, computing/diving. I really do suck info up about computers and grasp what im doing fast, there averywhere aswell so it wouldnt be too hard to get re-employed when ive done the propper training.
Diving, there are tons of places that do dive training round the world, ranging from 5 weeks to 6 months train time. There are also a number of avenues that i can go down, Instructor, Marine Biology, Marine conservation. Under water wood welder[UWWW], dolfin trainer.
So, even though i've thought of all these wonderfull things i'd like to do i'm still undecided. I still think that the econamic climate is unsettled and employers are still being carefull, too carefull if you ask me.
I know what ever i put my mind too i will achive it, i told someone once that i really wanted to go diving and they said it was just a pipe dream that i would never achive, well i fucking showed you didnt i. Went and dived the Zenobia init blad.
So i think i best draw to an end as im sure youve had enough. I feel better for writing this, the wall feels one less step away now. But it has been hit i will not deny that, i sometimes wonder what i'll think when i read this in a years time, problably be like ''jeeze i moaned like a bitch, why did people read this''
3.2
Song - Massive Attack vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Teardrops Under The Bridge
Mood - Fuck this, i want to be a pirate. ahhhhhhrrrrrrrr!
6th and 15th
15-8-10
Well as time slowley grinds to a halt in the land of falk...i write yet another post. slightly tired, been working for a number of days of which i dont care to remember. And my roommate insists on keeping me up with his vulgar snoring to the point of me shouting his name a few times till he stops, Its really starting to piss me off now. I hope i dont have to resort to throwing the boot, size 12's tend to hurt.
Well ive got around 8 weeks left. I've missed the english summer and had a 12 month winter was it fun? NO. Was it worth it? NO. Would i come here again? NO. Will I enjoy the cash? Indeed i will.
This whole tour is a big learning curve really, I just dont know what i'm ment to be learning.
I've narrowed my future jobs down to 3, diving instructor(ive wanted to do this for a while, every since cyprus), Computing- few areas in this one, Systems analyst, ethical hacker, networking), and if i need more qualls for them then i would go for dog handler.
Michelle asked me last night where i would be in 5 years jobwise. I really didnt have the fogiest to be honest, i mean would you? literally anything could change and happen in that time. I live day to day not year to year. I go with the flow. as i find it a hell of a lot easier than being dispointed and frustrated.
Well ive been on earlies and im starting to nod off (already ''Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp'ed on the blog once) so gonna try wake up. Maybe watch a film.
Musicings - 3oh!3 - beaumont / Pendulum - watercolour
M00d - Tired, increasingly bored, slighly stabby
6.2
6-8-10
Well i feel compelled to write another blog. Since i came off nights i've not really slept well, ontop of that i picked a big box of grated cheese up and have done something to my back not sure what but it doesnt feel good. I eventually get to sleep but not as much as i would like. Any how i had a really wierd dream last night cant really remember much of it but i know it was wiered.
Work has been well the same really, no change, same shit. Had an easy day today, was a ''function'' 50 people for curry, 40 people for chilli. 8 hours.... Was told to make the chilli super hot, so i did. It was so hot that it burnt through 2 metal spoons. (really? No not really) But it was damn hot anyhow.
Passed my fitness test finally, In the process ive gained a cold 6 pack(of Dr Pepper). Gonna keep up with it but not go over board and become a meat head.
We've had snow here, 4 days it fell for, side ways, round ways, down ways. And when it eventually stopped the sun came out, which was nice, apart from the snow stayed, even with the blazing sun, got up to about 16 degrees aswell but still it stayed. Its gone now, Im getting slightly tired of snow.
blah
Well as time slowley grinds to a halt in the land of falk...i write yet another post. slightly tired, been working for a number of days of which i dont care to remember. And my roommate insists on keeping me up with his vulgar snoring to the point of me shouting his name a few times till he stops, Its really starting to piss me off now. I hope i dont have to resort to throwing the boot, size 12's tend to hurt.
Well ive got around 8 weeks left. I've missed the english summer and had a 12 month winter was it fun? NO. Was it worth it? NO. Would i come here again? NO. Will I enjoy the cash? Indeed i will.
This whole tour is a big learning curve really, I just dont know what i'm ment to be learning.
I've narrowed my future jobs down to 3, diving instructor(ive wanted to do this for a while, every since cyprus), Computing- few areas in this one, Systems analyst, ethical hacker, networking), and if i need more qualls for them then i would go for dog handler.
Michelle asked me last night where i would be in 5 years jobwise. I really didnt have the fogiest to be honest, i mean would you? literally anything could change and happen in that time. I live day to day not year to year. I go with the flow. as i find it a hell of a lot easier than being dispointed and frustrated.
Well ive been on earlies and im starting to nod off (already ''Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp'ed on the blog once) so gonna try wake up. Maybe watch a film.
Musicings - 3oh!3 - beaumont / Pendulum - watercolour
M00d - Tired, increasingly bored, slighly stabby
6.2
6-8-10
Well i feel compelled to write another blog. Since i came off nights i've not really slept well, ontop of that i picked a big box of grated cheese up and have done something to my back not sure what but it doesnt feel good. I eventually get to sleep but not as much as i would like. Any how i had a really wierd dream last night cant really remember much of it but i know it was wiered.
Work has been well the same really, no change, same shit. Had an easy day today, was a ''function'' 50 people for curry, 40 people for chilli. 8 hours.... Was told to make the chilli super hot, so i did. It was so hot that it burnt through 2 metal spoons. (really? No not really) But it was damn hot anyhow.
Passed my fitness test finally, In the process ive gained a cold 6 pack(of Dr Pepper). Gonna keep up with it but not go over board and become a meat head.
We've had snow here, 4 days it fell for, side ways, round ways, down ways. And when it eventually stopped the sun came out, which was nice, apart from the snow stayed, even with the blazing sun, got up to about 16 degrees aswell but still it stayed. Its gone now, Im getting slightly tired of snow.
blah
Thursday 22 July 2010
21st
Well i thought that i best do an update just so you wouldnt think im dead. So there you are i might not be dead in the literal sence but i am dead bored. This place is gonna be the end of my cheffing days in the army, its more like a food factory here than an cook house. The one reason i joined up was to get away from the factory and fast food sector. But i seemed to have just stepped into another one.
I was hoping being out here i might have been able to get some education done, mainly on the computer side of things, but the ECDL suite has been down and out of action since last october, you would think that it would be fixed in a matter of monthes rather than nearly a year. So with that out of the window im just gonna have to wait till i get back to uk and get my shizzle on there.
RnR was great, got to see my family again, bar Matt who is sunning it up in cornwall before he becomes a GI (General issue, you can blame paul for that one) Yep thats right he's joing up in october and with the job thats he's managed to get him self he should have many years of great service. Any how on with the rnr, first i managed to get myself a hire car 8 hours before i should have, 1.8 magané and it flew, really nice car to drive. Got home nice to finally see some friendly yorkshire faces, went to staithes with michelle for a few days, really nice there. Got a pokey little cottage that i had to keep bending down in to get through doors. Apart from the shower that boiled your skin off it was really nice, got to hunt for some fossels too which was fun, im sure michelle enjoyed smashing rocks up too,(even though she will not admit it even though she started it...)
Really didnt want to come back to the MP of mother fucking A but i had too. Only 3 months more i guessed, Not soo bad once i got a good look at the shiney pennies building up in my bank accounts. Not much to report here really, i brought my guitar back with me which im glad i did, i can finally get my freak on with some GuitaRage. My finger tips are really hating me right now but i feel better for the rocking out. On the line of music i bought a Bose sound dock for my iPod, my las one was getting abit tinny and beat up, jeeze am i glad i spent a few hundred on this thing, its the beastyest dock ive ever heard, its not much to look at, no screen or built in buttons but the sound quality it puts out is mind blowing and it packs a hard punching bass line, 4 times i got told to turn it down in the kitchen, oops.
So ive got 2 and i bit months left here, I need a time machine, or a blunt rusty spoon to claw my eyeballs out. Some days seem fast and some really slow and some just bullshitty and cack. Luckly i brought some more films out with me, i likes the A Team. Made me laugh.
Im on nights for a week as of monday, that should be fun seeing as i cant usually sleep during day. By day 3 im gonna be like a chipmonk on speed.
Well as you can tell i've run out of things to say.
Goodnight...
Dan The Veg Man
SOAD - Sugar (the first system song i ever heard. Thanks andy)
Mood - Tired, witty, shitty, bill bo baggins stylé.
8.2
Hi to my family, michelle and the canadian chapter of the blood line, booooo to you, rasta style, lolwhut??
''can you say brain washing? b b b b brain washingggga''
Is it strange that i want a mini samuri sword as a letter opener? No? Didnt think so.
Oh before i forget i had a really wierd dream, can only remember a few seconds or so but i was convinced i was living in Australia....Whats that all about, eh? All day i was thinking about it. Why? Beats me.
I was hoping being out here i might have been able to get some education done, mainly on the computer side of things, but the ECDL suite has been down and out of action since last october, you would think that it would be fixed in a matter of monthes rather than nearly a year. So with that out of the window im just gonna have to wait till i get back to uk and get my shizzle on there.
RnR was great, got to see my family again, bar Matt who is sunning it up in cornwall before he becomes a GI (General issue, you can blame paul for that one) Yep thats right he's joing up in october and with the job thats he's managed to get him self he should have many years of great service. Any how on with the rnr, first i managed to get myself a hire car 8 hours before i should have, 1.8 magané and it flew, really nice car to drive. Got home nice to finally see some friendly yorkshire faces, went to staithes with michelle for a few days, really nice there. Got a pokey little cottage that i had to keep bending down in to get through doors. Apart from the shower that boiled your skin off it was really nice, got to hunt for some fossels too which was fun, im sure michelle enjoyed smashing rocks up too,(even though she will not admit it even though she started it...)
Really didnt want to come back to the MP of mother fucking A but i had too. Only 3 months more i guessed, Not soo bad once i got a good look at the shiney pennies building up in my bank accounts. Not much to report here really, i brought my guitar back with me which im glad i did, i can finally get my freak on with some GuitaRage. My finger tips are really hating me right now but i feel better for the rocking out. On the line of music i bought a Bose sound dock for my iPod, my las one was getting abit tinny and beat up, jeeze am i glad i spent a few hundred on this thing, its the beastyest dock ive ever heard, its not much to look at, no screen or built in buttons but the sound quality it puts out is mind blowing and it packs a hard punching bass line, 4 times i got told to turn it down in the kitchen, oops.
So ive got 2 and i bit months left here, I need a time machine, or a blunt rusty spoon to claw my eyeballs out. Some days seem fast and some really slow and some just bullshitty and cack. Luckly i brought some more films out with me, i likes the A Team. Made me laugh.
Im on nights for a week as of monday, that should be fun seeing as i cant usually sleep during day. By day 3 im gonna be like a chipmonk on speed.
Well as you can tell i've run out of things to say.
Goodnight...
Dan The Veg Man
SOAD - Sugar (the first system song i ever heard. Thanks andy)
Mood - Tired, witty, shitty, bill bo baggins stylé.
8.2
Hi to my family, michelle and the canadian chapter of the blood line, booooo to you, rasta style, lolwhut??
''can you say brain washing? b b b b brain washingggga''
Is it strange that i want a mini samuri sword as a letter opener? No? Didnt think so.
Oh before i forget i had a really wierd dream, can only remember a few seconds or so but i was convinced i was living in Australia....Whats that all about, eh? All day i was thinking about it. Why? Beats me.
Sunday 13 June 2010
Sunday 23 May 2010
23rd
Slow week, Training day wasnt really training as i was told. It was actually an excersice which slightly annoys me as i didnt take all the kit i should have, but it didnt matter anyway, i got lucky all i did was pick some rifles up and sit around in a hanger all day while the other people sat around and walked, stood guard, drove, patroled.....lucky eh?
Work is going ok, like i say alot better than MPA making decent food that tastes reasonable.
After ''training'' i went rock climbing with some of the instructers from hillside, was good to get back onto a wall. Not climbed in a long time so took a while to get loose. But i got there and pushed the boundries. Its crazy how youve got to be on your toes all the time, i let my mind slip for one second while i was belaying one of the guys and he fell off, in a split second he was coming down the wall, luckly instincts kicked and i locked the rope off in time, but the sudden stop caused me to fly quarter way up the wall, the other guy was almost touching the ground. Luckly nothing broken, no one hurt. I appologised and he said ''no worries, it happens. Sometimes it takes things like this to remind you of things, things that you already know but have forgotten'' Its true, people become lazy in there ways or rely on othere. I thought because this guy was an instructer he knew his limits and woundn't fall. Which make you think alot. or it does me anyway. Boundries are ment to be broken and pushed, bent and reshaped. Or else we would just live in a boring one track world. Rock climbing is one thing i would love to get back into, profectionally. Maybe one day..... I remember how much fun i used to have back before i joined the forces rock climbing, nothing serious all for the laughs. Pushing when you wanted too.
So i recently found out that if i did my bike licence here i can transfer it to my uk licence later on and hold a full uk bike licence, Which is great considering you do it all on a 125 bike around stanley the sleepy little port... Bargin £150 in total including bike, training and test. Why the hell not i suppose, i'll use it one day, still got my old bike locked up in a garage at home should run with some clean petrol, sell that and buy something bigger.
Well that about it really, ploughing through battlestar at a fast pace, was on guard friday night and watched a whole season. With it being a friday night i knew i wouldnt get much sleep anyway so i though what the hell. Stay up and burn away the hours. I was day off saturday so it wasnt like i needed the sleep to do anything. I am totally suprised that i didnt end up about being attacted by cylons in my sleep...strange your thinking i know.
Sometimes i wonder what it would be like to live in a different time. In the past, just to experience what life was like back then, the music, the ways of life, the smells of the city. When money was actually worth something and you had to work hard for it.
Off to stick a film on now in the mess. laters x
Mood- Relaxed, happy
Song- Little Boot - Remedy (shes on the telle box and there is something about her)
9.3
Work is going ok, like i say alot better than MPA making decent food that tastes reasonable.
After ''training'' i went rock climbing with some of the instructers from hillside, was good to get back onto a wall. Not climbed in a long time so took a while to get loose. But i got there and pushed the boundries. Its crazy how youve got to be on your toes all the time, i let my mind slip for one second while i was belaying one of the guys and he fell off, in a split second he was coming down the wall, luckly instincts kicked and i locked the rope off in time, but the sudden stop caused me to fly quarter way up the wall, the other guy was almost touching the ground. Luckly nothing broken, no one hurt. I appologised and he said ''no worries, it happens. Sometimes it takes things like this to remind you of things, things that you already know but have forgotten'' Its true, people become lazy in there ways or rely on othere. I thought because this guy was an instructer he knew his limits and woundn't fall. Which make you think alot. or it does me anyway. Boundries are ment to be broken and pushed, bent and reshaped. Or else we would just live in a boring one track world. Rock climbing is one thing i would love to get back into, profectionally. Maybe one day..... I remember how much fun i used to have back before i joined the forces rock climbing, nothing serious all for the laughs. Pushing when you wanted too.
So i recently found out that if i did my bike licence here i can transfer it to my uk licence later on and hold a full uk bike licence, Which is great considering you do it all on a 125 bike around stanley the sleepy little port... Bargin £150 in total including bike, training and test. Why the hell not i suppose, i'll use it one day, still got my old bike locked up in a garage at home should run with some clean petrol, sell that and buy something bigger.
Well that about it really, ploughing through battlestar at a fast pace, was on guard friday night and watched a whole season. With it being a friday night i knew i wouldnt get much sleep anyway so i though what the hell. Stay up and burn away the hours. I was day off saturday so it wasnt like i needed the sleep to do anything. I am totally suprised that i didnt end up about being attacted by cylons in my sleep...strange your thinking i know.
Sometimes i wonder what it would be like to live in a different time. In the past, just to experience what life was like back then, the music, the ways of life, the smells of the city. When money was actually worth something and you had to work hard for it.
Off to stick a film on now in the mess. laters x
Mood- Relaxed, happy
Song- Little Boot - Remedy (shes on the telle box and there is something about her)
9.3
18th
well what can i say about the last 4 days? windy and mildly moist i think. Started watching battlestar when i can, trying to squeeze in every episode and film in while im here, should be fun, if i finish early ive got all of lost to watch too. I could get lost in the Lost.
Not much has happened really, Work, sleep and film watching really. I have decided that im gonna get a projector when i get back to uk for good. Just makes watching films all the better.
I found my posting out. Its germania. Oh but wait is it now? nope, im not going there now. Im getting a uk posting hoping for SouthWest as i like it there alot, but any uk posting will do. For the time i'll be there it wont really matter. Im hoping to get out of the food buisiness sharpish before i have a break down or kill someone with 3 month old eggs...........
Training day tomorrow which means ive got to travel 40 odd miles back to the main base and watch a days worth of powerpoint, stand around outside and get cold, walk for reasons unknown and just generally waste the day away freezing my tats off.
Song- Apocoliptia - Nothing else matters (purley for the fact that ive been annoying peoples with it all day)
Mood- Tired
7.2
Not much has happened really, Work, sleep and film watching really. I have decided that im gonna get a projector when i get back to uk for good. Just makes watching films all the better.
I found my posting out. Its germania. Oh but wait is it now? nope, im not going there now. Im getting a uk posting hoping for SouthWest as i like it there alot, but any uk posting will do. For the time i'll be there it wont really matter. Im hoping to get out of the food buisiness sharpish before i have a break down or kill someone with 3 month old eggs...........
Training day tomorrow which means ive got to travel 40 odd miles back to the main base and watch a days worth of powerpoint, stand around outside and get cold, walk for reasons unknown and just generally waste the day away freezing my tats off.
Song- Apocoliptia - Nothing else matters (purley for the fact that ive been annoying peoples with it all day)
Mood- Tired
7.2
14th
well ive been at hillside for about a week now and im loving it. Kitchen is like being back caterick, apart from more stuff is broken. Weekends are busy but rest of the time its a little dead.
Got my own cabin, double bed, tv, sette, shower. Its nice. Shame its only for a month though, but hey its a month less that i have to work in 4 seasons.
Net is a little unstable but it works sometimes.
Simpsons Seasons 19 ep. 12
Got my own cabin, double bed, tv, sette, shower. Its nice. Shame its only for a month though, but hey its a month less that i have to work in 4 seasons.
Net is a little unstable but it works sometimes.
Simpsons Seasons 19 ep. 12
Thursday 6 May 2010
6th
Well ive not been on the internet for a while or even wrote a blog for a while that matter. Truth is nothing exciting or anything worth talking about has happened TO BE HONET.
Its just been work, sleep, little bit of gym work.
I did go to Stanley the day before yesterday, it was alright, went in a few shops did a little bit of buying. Had a beer.
In Stanley im guessing its a close knit of people that know everyone else. So when 5 squadies turned up we were getting dodgy lucks it remined me of Hot Fuz, where they killed people off to keep there village ''nice''. Well news is good, im moving out of the 4 seasons and going to a litle base just inside stanley call ''Hillside'' Its the adventure training camp so will be feeding between 15 and 50 people. Which is good, its what im used to cooking for, you get more time to play with the food and put your own side to it. Now im only going down there for a month but im hoping i might get moved down there perminatly if i do well......here hoping cos im sick of veg.
Not much else to say TO BE HONEST. Ive got 2 days off, today and tomorrow, im gonna pack what i need as i go down there on sunday. Might get some shopping in while im there, not been shopping in a while and i need to spend some moneys on random crap, you know how it is.
Talked to michelle for more than 20 minutes yeasterday which was nice. I think she thought i was going a little insane on the phone but no harm done.
Well thats it really, bordom is slowley taking its hold, i've reading a book about every 2 days at the moment, which is not good as i'll need to order some new books soon. But on the other hand there awesome books with great plot lines in them. Good old Clive Custler.
Well that all for now.
Mood - happly happy
SongThe looney island - Space olympics.
9.3
Its just been work, sleep, little bit of gym work.
I did go to Stanley the day before yesterday, it was alright, went in a few shops did a little bit of buying. Had a beer.
In Stanley im guessing its a close knit of people that know everyone else. So when 5 squadies turned up we were getting dodgy lucks it remined me of Hot Fuz, where they killed people off to keep there village ''nice''. Well news is good, im moving out of the 4 seasons and going to a litle base just inside stanley call ''Hillside'' Its the adventure training camp so will be feeding between 15 and 50 people. Which is good, its what im used to cooking for, you get more time to play with the food and put your own side to it. Now im only going down there for a month but im hoping i might get moved down there perminatly if i do well......here hoping cos im sick of veg.
Not much else to say TO BE HONEST. Ive got 2 days off, today and tomorrow, im gonna pack what i need as i go down there on sunday. Might get some shopping in while im there, not been shopping in a while and i need to spend some moneys on random crap, you know how it is.
Talked to michelle for more than 20 minutes yeasterday which was nice. I think she thought i was going a little insane on the phone but no harm done.
Well thats it really, bordom is slowley taking its hold, i've reading a book about every 2 days at the moment, which is not good as i'll need to order some new books soon. But on the other hand there awesome books with great plot lines in them. Good old Clive Custler.
Well that all for now.
Mood - happly happy
SongThe looney island - Space olympics.
9.3
28th
Day off today, Not done much, ironed, watched a film. Realaxed.
Mood - relaxed
Song - July for Kings-Meteor Flower
Mood - relaxed
Song - July for Kings-Meteor Flower
29-30
Been putting quite a bit of effort into my situps, to the point i could breath as my stomach had tensed up that much. Yeah its hard to get out of bed in the morning now aswell. But hey, if i get ripped in the process TO BE HONEST i dont care.
Work is moving slowley as aways, time here seems to be going quite fast though, which is good TO BE HONEST.
Do my weapon handeling test for my green card on monday which means im ''trained'' the RAF way to handle a weapon. Pretty petty TO BE HONEST. But oh well.
Not much to say really, sorted my phone now so i got tunes and games back. Bout time, found out what caused all the bohaaa in the first place, it was itunes that was the problem, i tried to fix it and sucseeded but in the process i un-fixed something else. and un-fixed it again and made it even worst. Well with around 5 hours googleing(the internal wifi card timer froze so i got free credits) I finally found the solution and fixed it. Which TO BE HONEST is good, i feel like i have actually achieved something. Well im on lates tomorrow, fun times.
Michelle is moving into a new house in the next few day, which im happy about. I dont think the old house was too bad to begin with but things begin to grind on you, besides i think the old house was about ready to fall down with the mutant washing machine on spin cycle.
My address out here has changed a little out here i'll send it to relevent people but if you want to send me anything while im on this rock send me a msg on my facebook and i'll forward the address onto you. Any i mean anything e.g. sweets, gold bulion, midgits i really dont mind.
ciao for now bitchas xx
Work is moving slowley as aways, time here seems to be going quite fast though, which is good TO BE HONEST.
Do my weapon handeling test for my green card on monday which means im ''trained'' the RAF way to handle a weapon. Pretty petty TO BE HONEST. But oh well.
Not much to say really, sorted my phone now so i got tunes and games back. Bout time, found out what caused all the bohaaa in the first place, it was itunes that was the problem, i tried to fix it and sucseeded but in the process i un-fixed something else. and un-fixed it again and made it even worst. Well with around 5 hours googleing(the internal wifi card timer froze so i got free credits) I finally found the solution and fixed it. Which TO BE HONEST is good, i feel like i have actually achieved something. Well im on lates tomorrow, fun times.
Michelle is moving into a new house in the next few day, which im happy about. I dont think the old house was too bad to begin with but things begin to grind on you, besides i think the old house was about ready to fall down with the mutant washing machine on spin cycle.
My address out here has changed a little out here i'll send it to relevent people but if you want to send me anything while im on this rock send me a msg on my facebook and i'll forward the address onto you. Any i mean anything e.g. sweets, gold bulion, midgits i really dont mind.
ciao for now bitchas xx
Tuesday 27 April 2010
27th
Well today was a bit different to the rest, I was on fish and vegitarean, i did baked cod with a herb crust but post for out here mind you though. Was a pleasent change from veg though.
Been thinking alot about past exsercises that i've done and i would rather go back to jordan than be here to be quite honest, just found some pictures on my hard drive from it. Had a little giggle at some of them. Good team of chefs too, unlike here were there just a bunch of monkeys in whites.
I have definatly made my mind up now, as soon as its possible im transfering to something else be it dog handeler, computer gremlin, organ grinder or the little dancing monkey. This is a very stressfull job with little or no appriciation that i could do without. I wouldnt mind the pay drop to be honest, i wouldnt even mind if i lost my rank, all that matters is that im happy with my work. Ive been cheffing about 8 or so years, im not shy of hard work.
Well thats that anyway i thought i'd pad it out with something.
Its getting very cold out again, so cold infact that we dont need a fridge in the room, we just put the milk on the window sill. Im expecting snow again soon, either that or frozen pellets of water shooting out of the sky.
Mood - tired with a tinge of achivement
Song of the day - RHCP-Under the Bridge
6.7
Been thinking alot about past exsercises that i've done and i would rather go back to jordan than be here to be quite honest, just found some pictures on my hard drive from it. Had a little giggle at some of them. Good team of chefs too, unlike here were there just a bunch of monkeys in whites.
I have definatly made my mind up now, as soon as its possible im transfering to something else be it dog handeler, computer gremlin, organ grinder or the little dancing monkey. This is a very stressfull job with little or no appriciation that i could do without. I wouldnt mind the pay drop to be honest, i wouldnt even mind if i lost my rank, all that matters is that im happy with my work. Ive been cheffing about 8 or so years, im not shy of hard work.
Well thats that anyway i thought i'd pad it out with something.
Its getting very cold out again, so cold infact that we dont need a fridge in the room, we just put the milk on the window sill. Im expecting snow again soon, either that or frozen pellets of water shooting out of the sky.
Mood - tired with a tinge of achivement
Song of the day - RHCP-Under the Bridge
6.7
Monday 26 April 2010
26th
Today was like any other, early start, shift, food then shower. Shift went really fast to be honest. Not much to say to be honest. Just another boring day on the rock. Watching Freddie got fingered at the minute, not seen it for quite a while, funny stuff.
Thats all for today really, hopfully the internet is back on today so i can upload these posts.
Bye for now.
Mood - Bored with a seasoning of wonder
Song in my head - Daddy would you like some sausege-Tom Green
6.2
Thats all for today really, hopfully the internet is back on today so i can upload these posts.
Bye for now.
Mood - Bored with a seasoning of wonder
Song in my head - Daddy would you like some sausege-Tom Green
6.2
Sunday 25 April 2010
25th
Well today was like any other sunday, or any other day for that matter, shift went quite fast to be fair. Still dont like getting up at half 4 though. Had a laugh in the kitchen. Just a big joke really, Got my washing done. Watched some telle box, Made a few phone calls and played fallout3.
That game will never get old, sensless violence is always fun, now ive got it on the pc theres loads of mods for it, guns, places to stay, you name it.
Just listening to some music and waiting for the kettle to boil at the moment.
Gonna start rock climbing soon, apparently theres a club that runs twice a week. The wall looks alright though.
Cant do any computer qualifications out here the ''system'' has been broke since october and no-ones bothered to fix it or its like everything else that breakes here, they try to fix it and fail, ultimate FAIL!
Anyhow kettles boiled so gonna have a tup of tea, no biscuits though someones eaten them all, oh that was me. Damn!
I really do not make any appologies for the smelling pisstakes in this blog.....What do you expext i pre-write it in fucking notepad, then upload it when i can get a decent internet connection.
Just an extra addon of more complaining, itunes put an update out a couple of days before i came out here, so i updated and now my iphone wont update misics, some sync error, seems to be happening alot from the word on google and they still havent put an update out the fix there problems. Yak! Currently using MediaMonkey and it doesnt seem great for iphones but its working never the less(what does that mean, never the less?) well working kind of, sometimes it needs a double sync to makesure.
Mood - hap-penis
Song in my head - Laroux-going in for the kill(Skreams lets get ravey remix)
8.3
I suppose really i should put i disclaimer up to be honest.
********WARNING********
I am i foul mouthed and misunderstud individual, who has problems spelling on notepad.
Whatever you read in this blog is not to be taken literly and under no circumstances should you be offended but my foul mouth.
This blog is based on actual events that may or may not happened.
I am a moose.
That game will never get old, sensless violence is always fun, now ive got it on the pc theres loads of mods for it, guns, places to stay, you name it.
Just listening to some music and waiting for the kettle to boil at the moment.
Gonna start rock climbing soon, apparently theres a club that runs twice a week. The wall looks alright though.
Cant do any computer qualifications out here the ''system'' has been broke since october and no-ones bothered to fix it or its like everything else that breakes here, they try to fix it and fail, ultimate FAIL!
Anyhow kettles boiled so gonna have a tup of tea, no biscuits though someones eaten them all, oh that was me. Damn!
I really do not make any appologies for the smelling pisstakes in this blog.....What do you expext i pre-write it in fucking notepad, then upload it when i can get a decent internet connection.
Just an extra addon of more complaining, itunes put an update out a couple of days before i came out here, so i updated and now my iphone wont update misics, some sync error, seems to be happening alot from the word on google and they still havent put an update out the fix there problems. Yak! Currently using MediaMonkey and it doesnt seem great for iphones but its working never the less(what does that mean, never the less?) well working kind of, sometimes it needs a double sync to makesure.
Mood - hap-penis
Song in my head - Laroux-going in for the kill(Skreams lets get ravey remix)
8.3
I suppose really i should put i disclaimer up to be honest.
********WARNING********
I am i foul mouthed and misunderstud individual, who has problems spelling on notepad.
Whatever you read in this blog is not to be taken literly and under no circumstances should you be offended but my foul mouth.
This blog is based on actual events that may or may not happened.
I am a moose.
Thursday 22 April 2010
22nd to 24th
Well the last 3 days havent really been all that to shout about to be honest. I see myself just writing about work day after day after day. I'm slowly getting back into the pace of doing an 8 to 9 hour shift where you actually work for most of the time, unlike before when i mostly sat down and drank brews with a little bit of work inbetween.
So work thursday and friday, nothing much to say there.
Saturday I had a training day, pretty pointless but i got to see how much the RAF are actually mothered. We walked around alot, and my god it was so windy, my ears still ache from the shear roar of it all. Theres pretty much fuck all on this rock that stops it from blowing through here. Luckly the snow has stopped and disapeared, probably been blown away.
Anyway back to the RAF, i was told that they are all treated like they 'R' stupids. Mothered and watched over, well i can confirm its pretty much true, for most of the people ive met any how, not all mind you.
After ''training'' with consisted of dog handeling, vehical control point, LSW shoot(not training, just point that there and shoot the 30 rounds in bursts that way) and distance checks we went back to a classroom and were told to clean the weapons, there were 7 people cleaning a weapon(fair do's more hands get it done faster but it really didnt work out like that) They tret it like they were doing taught, not strip, clean, check and fuck off. Took bloody ages. I'm not the greatest shot in the world but im very good when it comes down to stripping a weapon. In cadets i used to have compatitions blind fold, fun times. I mean i don't want to sound big headed but i know what im good at. Its the tricky mechanical things that i like, the fidley things of life.
Well after all that boohaha i got back to my room and tried to get warm, took a while but i achived it. Finally set my 360 up, and it still works after the 8000 mile trip, But my controlers are flat, and the batteries cost the same as a small country out here. poosticks.
Now sat drinking some soup and pondering what to do for the rest of the afternoon, hmmmmmmmmm.
Well thats all for now, sorry its a 3 day'r in one but the internet has been pretty ropey to say the least, Cable and Wireless are pretty shit and rip people off, £30 for a 30 minute phone card, £10 for a wifi card that last god only knows but i used my last one in 2 days. So maybe about 2 hours of surfing. Asked how much it would be to get it put in my room, £150 a month WTF? Thats 5 months worth of internet back in the uk....
Well im off, time for fallout me thinks, cant wait for the new one in october.
Mood - Chipper(whatever the hell that means)
Song in my head - Tim Minchin-The Song for Phill Daoust
7.5
So work thursday and friday, nothing much to say there.
Saturday I had a training day, pretty pointless but i got to see how much the RAF are actually mothered. We walked around alot, and my god it was so windy, my ears still ache from the shear roar of it all. Theres pretty much fuck all on this rock that stops it from blowing through here. Luckly the snow has stopped and disapeared, probably been blown away.
Anyway back to the RAF, i was told that they are all treated like they 'R' stupids. Mothered and watched over, well i can confirm its pretty much true, for most of the people ive met any how, not all mind you.
After ''training'' with consisted of dog handeling, vehical control point, LSW shoot(not training, just point that there and shoot the 30 rounds in bursts that way) and distance checks we went back to a classroom and were told to clean the weapons, there were 7 people cleaning a weapon(fair do's more hands get it done faster but it really didnt work out like that) They tret it like they were doing taught, not strip, clean, check and fuck off. Took bloody ages. I'm not the greatest shot in the world but im very good when it comes down to stripping a weapon. In cadets i used to have compatitions blind fold, fun times. I mean i don't want to sound big headed but i know what im good at. Its the tricky mechanical things that i like, the fidley things of life.
Well after all that boohaha i got back to my room and tried to get warm, took a while but i achived it. Finally set my 360 up, and it still works after the 8000 mile trip, But my controlers are flat, and the batteries cost the same as a small country out here. poosticks.
Now sat drinking some soup and pondering what to do for the rest of the afternoon, hmmmmmmmmm.
Well thats all for now, sorry its a 3 day'r in one but the internet has been pretty ropey to say the least, Cable and Wireless are pretty shit and rip people off, £30 for a 30 minute phone card, £10 for a wifi card that last god only knows but i used my last one in 2 days. So maybe about 2 hours of surfing. Asked how much it would be to get it put in my room, £150 a month WTF? Thats 5 months worth of internet back in the uk....
Well im off, time for fallout me thinks, cant wait for the new one in october.
Mood - Chipper(whatever the hell that means)
Song in my head - Tim Minchin-The Song for Phill Daoust
7.5
Wednesday 21 April 2010
21st
The fire alarm went off last night about 11pm, i'd been in bed about 10 minutes. Stood outside for about 20 minutes getting very cold, then got let back in. Turns out it was an extracter fan in the washing room that had set on fire. Lol im guessing its about as old as the block.
Well it was my day off today, so not really done much. Did my fitness test and failed on situps. The monged it in my room for the rest of the day, fell asleep. sorted my kit out just incase i get called out. Ironed my stuff. Blah
Thats all for now really, Just a boring day. Snowing again, i just know im gonna get board of typing that.
Mood - bored already
Song in my head - bum biddy biddy biddy bum bum-8 Crazy Nights.
6/10
Well it was my day off today, so not really done much. Did my fitness test and failed on situps. The monged it in my room for the rest of the day, fell asleep. sorted my kit out just incase i get called out. Ironed my stuff. Blah
Thats all for now really, Just a boring day. Snowing again, i just know im gonna get board of typing that.
Mood - bored already
Song in my head - bum biddy biddy biddy bum bum-8 Crazy Nights.
6/10
Tuesday 20 April 2010
20th
Falklands isnt listed on my laptop time zones so i had to choose another one, it was canada or something like that, well that turned out due to daylight savings was only 4 hours, so i changed it manually to the right time, plugged my iphone in to try and put some songs on and it changed the time so that it was an hour ahead of what it should be. I didnt realise this till 6am this morning, i was gonna get up at 7am, So i got ready, put my boots on and had a look at my watch, it was only 6am, looked at my phone 7am, watch 6am, phone 7am. I think i swore at my self and went back to bed. To be honest im not really having much luck with time, no-one told me the clocks had changed so i tipped up to work at 4am instead of 5am the other day. Yes lol at me all you want.
So i woke up to snow this morning, luvly. Went down the cinama for my arrivals breaf. The blocks are quite warm but the ''spinal corridors'' are so fucking cold its unbelivable, its like walking outside, inside but it feels even worst. Sat in there for 5 hours the instructer said they left the heating off to keep us awake. Jeeze it was so cold, shivering much.
Went into work after that with the idea of finishing at 4pm, that didnt happen. Left work at half 6.
So its all fun in the snow here, coming down quite heavy now maybe i'll build a snow penguin or a snow turkey vulture(yes they do exist). Thats all to say right now, day off tomorrow but i've still got shit to do on my arivals chit. ceow for now bitchs.
Mood - Indiferent
Song in my head - Sugar-SOAD
6/10
So i woke up to snow this morning, luvly. Went down the cinama for my arrivals breaf. The blocks are quite warm but the ''spinal corridors'' are so fucking cold its unbelivable, its like walking outside, inside but it feels even worst. Sat in there for 5 hours the instructer said they left the heating off to keep us awake. Jeeze it was so cold, shivering much.
Went into work after that with the idea of finishing at 4pm, that didnt happen. Left work at half 6.
So its all fun in the snow here, coming down quite heavy now maybe i'll build a snow penguin or a snow turkey vulture(yes they do exist). Thats all to say right now, day off tomorrow but i've still got shit to do on my arivals chit. ceow for now bitchs.
Mood - Indiferent
Song in my head - Sugar-SOAD
6/10
Monday 19 April 2010
Falklands-the beggining
Well i've decided to keep a blog for the next 6 months while im here in the Falklands, maybe to keep me sane or maybe to look back on it and laugh. I'll try and write something every day but i might have to upload it every 3 days or so.
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
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