Visiting My Family

I miss my family so much, I think of them every single day. Even though I talk to them on the phone and shoot them a text or two, there is still that feeling where I feel like I am missing something. I miss seeing my mom and my dad every morning. I miss their warm hugs, and every time they said “good morning”. The one thing that I miss the most is their smile on their faces.

 I went to visit them during April vacation last year, and I tried to do the same thing this year, but sadly I couldn’t make it work. Instead of going down to Guatemala during April vacation I will be going down there June 17^th I will be going for a week, and I will be returning the 24^th. I wanted to go down to visit them right after graduation because therefore I could see them before I went to boot camp because while I am in boot camp I am not able to talk to anyone on the phone of in skype, I am only allowed to send letters.

Boot camp its self is nine weeks, and four days, and after boot camp I have to do my job training, but I get my phone back right after boot camp. I can’t wait to see their faces once I get down there. The best part of this is that my brother hasn’t been down there since three or four years now. My guardian and I have our tickets already and my brother and I are working to get his ticket so that it work perfectly fine with ours. That way we can all go down there the same time and the trip would be ten times better because we will all finally be together again. 

Sports

            Senior year has gone super fucking fast, and I kind of hate it, but at the same time I just want it to get over already so that I can move on in life.  The one thing that I am going to miss the most about high school is sports. The one sport I miss the most is football, even though I didn’t really play, I enjoyed being part of the team, because I love football, and I loved that it was a team sport.

Throughout the three years that I played football I built many friendships. Starting junior year I can remember a football tradition that we started with Tucker B, Carter, Asher, Kp, and myself. Every Wednesday after practice we all got together and drove down to Ming’s to restore our energy. My junior year we went to states and we were really close to getting that gold ball, but the other team wanted it the most so they got to take it home. After the year ended all I was waiting for was senior year because I wanted to play football so bad.

 I went up to the weight room a couple of times, I didn’t go every single day because I couldn’t. I went to every practice, never missed a single practice. Once preseason started I was ready to play, and I couldn’t play because I failed a class the year before. Senior year didn’t start the way I wanted it to start, after the second game that I played I broke a fucking bone in my foot so I didn’t play again till senior night.

Than wrestling came along and I loved it the whole time, I loved every single aspect of it, I only missed one practice for the whole season, and that’s because I couldn’t get out of bed New Year’s Day. Two weeks prior to the season being over I made a mistake that I kind of regret doing, but it’s whatever. Anyways I’m going to miss all of this because of the friendships. 

US ARMY

            As many of you know already, I have joined the US ARMY, but I haven’t really told anyone why I joined. I live in a house where they are all antimilitary, and everyone in my house wonders why I joined. Everyone at my house says that I will just die for nothing, that I just fight for oil, and that I’m going to be killing small children for no reason. Every time I hear this all I say is none of your business, and because I can.

I joined the military and I am proud of it, joining was probably the best decision I have ever made. I will be leaving for boot camp this summer and I can’t wait for it. I am sad about it, but I am also really excited about it. Reasons why I am sad about it is because I will be going away from the people that I love for a very long time, because I will be going by myself with no one to talk to for months, and because I will get my ass reamed at day after day. Reasons why I am excited to go to boot camp already is that I will be able to get discipline from it, and that I know that I am doing the right thing not just for this lovely country, but for myself, I also know that once I am down there I will grow a lot mentally wise, and that I will be a lot smarter and not like I am right now.

I am happy for making this choice and I have no regrets because I know that I am not just going to waste my life doing nothing, and I am not going to be doing drugs or anything bad that can affect my life later on, and because the army will help me go to college and receive further education.