Today was much easier! My back has begun to get used to standing for hours, and believe me it hurt. I was so excited because we got our Army Combat Uniforms (ACUs) today! Humorously, the lights whent out in the building we were in, so we remained in the dark for two hours, give or take. We also got our combat boots. Sure they hurt from breaking them in and all but they're awesome! I'm so going to wear them for winter!

The Army provided us a card with money on it to buy whatever we need from the Army store...and believe me, it's NOTHING like the NEX. The money on the card was part of our yearly uniform allowance or something. I'm not sure. Either way, I was able to buy sneakers appropriate for my style of feet, according to this amazing foot scanner. I didn't know we had such technology. It told me my arch, all the different sizes of shoe brands I would fit, what size my foot is, and that I needed “stability.” Whatever. Quite frankly, I feel unbalanced in the shoes. As an personal note I'd like to remember, I found out that the woman (she can't be older than 24) acting as team guide, is a specialist (E-4). I think Sergeant Knight must favor her...it's kind of gross actually.

I've had panicky thoughts in my head about whether I can handle this or not. It was utterly confusing them first couple of days. I think I'm starting to grasp it now but we're shipping to Boot on Saturday. Technically speaking, “shipping” us is really just driving us up the road to where Boot will take place. Anyway, it's a very shocking change to adapt to and it sure is hard, but I'm still alive...I think. ;P

We learn to stand in formation for a long time, an hour even. I tried really hard to be disciplined and not fidget around.Tomorrow we get to wear our ACU's! WOOOOOOT! I know I'll probably get sick of them, but I don't care.
[begins to fall asleep] Ah...still have another... … .. [snore]