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My god, what hell. I saw my first snow of the year on Porsskär (outside Helsinki), in a 20 m/s gale, in the middle of the night. I have never, and I repeat this, never frozen as much as I did that night.

I am indescribably broken. Will write more coherence later, but for now...the feeling of being home is....magic.

/Foom

Oh the hell of it. 6 days! Yes, I know. I whined before the last camp, and that was just 4 days. Last camp was a shooting camp, anyway. He went easy on us. This time, we're not even supposed to be allowed to sleep. Which means we'll be cutting down forests and digging holes and setting up mortars and walking with the fuckers through neverending ( Read more... )

Yep, needed to make a LJ post again. Got such baad vibes. And writing here makes me realise that "what the heck, stop whining ya sissy!". Hatehatehatehatehatehatehatehatehatehategoingbackwaaahdon'twannnamommy ( Read more... )

Well.

I live, continually. To be frank, I don't feel like talking about the whole experience, but I suppose that for my own future reference, I should give it a wee list. From Sunday to Thursday. What we did, in all shortness:

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That's right bubs.

90 days.

That's 90 days of hell behind me.

90 days of hell yet to go.

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What has happened since I last made a coherent entry? Well...plenty of things, I gather. For one, I and all of those in our platoon have slowly gotten used to the idea of being in the Light Mortars. Most of those who were destined to quit right off the bat have done so, with only a few straggler-ons who should be gone pretty soon. This leaves a ( Read more... )

Just to let you all know : yes, I'm still alive. Haven't updated at all, mainly due to..err...reasons. Well, I don't know really. Can't say because I've been too busy during the weekends, mainly just because I...haven't! Yet, much has happened. Among other things, our first camp in the Light Mortar platoon! A three-day thing (Tuesday-Thursday), out ( Read more... )

Got mahself a computer, thought I'd make a quick comment before strolling off to fold my bedsheet...thingee (vika pinkkan. Yup!). It's a military thing, don't fret. Anyway, this week wasn't as killing as I thought it might be : we had two days of running back and forth on the football-field (we have one of those, yes) with the mortars, then a day ( Read more... )