First Impressions

Well, I’m sitting outside stealing a wireless signal so I can surf the net for a little while tonight. You see, I haven’t been assigned an official room the the Detachments barracks because we’re still moving people around. I have started my classes now, and I’m anxious to learn more about my target language.

Monterey is AWESOME. It is by no means a large city, but it’s nice. I like that almost everything is small business in downtown Monterey. You have to travel outside to find a mall, target, borders, and stores like that. I am finding the bar scene to be much different from back home in Tulsa. There are a ton of British Pubs here, but I have yet to find an Irish Pub. The civilians around here seem to be indifferent to military personnel, which is nice. Sometimes the locals hate the military personnel stationed there for reasons I don’t know, but I can imagine it is related to our loud personalities.

I don’t have much to say really… My motorcycle will arrive next week so I will get to explore some of the area on my own. The Marines here are a real tight group. There aren’t many of us here, so we have to look out for each other a lot. This place is crawling with Army, Air Force, and Navy…. but the Corps makes up a very, very small portion of the population in comparison to the other branches. This is supposed to provide a good opportunity to hook up with Air Force chicks… but that resource has already been tapped (pardon the pun), seeing as they have the highest percentage of personnel with STD’s on base! I think I’ll have to focus my attention on the civilian population. I have well over a year here, so I better make the best of it.

I hope to have some friends come visit me some time in the next few months. It might be best to wait until the spring or summer so we can enjoy the beach and the other fun activities around here… but this place is fun even when cold. Anyways… I’m going to stop babbling now. I hope everyone is doing well back home… Miss you guys.