Just some thoughts...

Some thoughts since being here in Italy.....

Working and living in Italy has been great up to this point!

I have met so many great people so far and

have made some great new friends as well!

But at the moment I am feeling a little bit lonely even though I am surrounded by so many people.

I am missing my family, which I know is normal by moving so far away from home.

I am also missing my good friends at home and the ones that I made while I was at Naval Corps School.

And one of the few people that I am missing is a guy that I met while I was there, and he was also going to Corps school as well. I guess that you would call it just a little fling. It wasn't anything serious but he was one of the nicest guys that I have met in a while.

I think what I am missing about him is just his company. He was always so kind to me and always had compliments for me. And he was just nice to be around as well.

So currently he is stationed in San Diego and is going to be with the Marines and will most likely going to be deployed once he gets done with his training in

Field Medical Training.

And as you all know, I am stationed in Naples, Italy.

Just a little distance problem as of right now.

I know that I am going to have to get over this in the near future

and hopefully I will meet some great guy over here.

But I guess since I am feeling a little bit lonely right now, so maybe thats while I am having these feelings.

So other than that, Italy has been great!

The next post will be more interesting than what this one has been, I promise!!

So hope that you all have a great rest of the week!!

Ciao!

Well I made it to Italy!

I got into Naples on the 17th of July. So far it has been pretty nice. I think that Im going to like it here.

I still miss everyone back in the states.

I haven't really done a whole lot with my job just yet. I had to do a lot of online training before I could even get to my department. Im suppose to be working in opthalmology. That should be interesting, since I don't haveany clue about the eyes except for general information. So I will keep an opened mind to learn about it and it should turn out alright. One major plus of working in that department is that one of my coworkers is really awesome, so we should have some good times at work.

So last week I went on a winery tour in Taurasi, Italy. Let me tell you it was BEAUTIFUL!!! We went to the Caggiano Winery and it was just like what you would imagine Italy to look like with all of the vineyards. I will post pictures later!

So this weekend should be a good one.

Tonight Im going on another winery tour :)

Saturday, the plans are still being made and I will update you on that.

Sunday, Im going on another tour of a city, not really sure what the name of it is but it sounds really interesting.

So thats it for now.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Until Later,

I'm Back!

Hey everyone...if there is still people around thats going to read my blog since I have been MIA for the past 6 months. There's a good reason for me being gone...I went to bootcamp in Jan. I graduated from there on March 19 and then went straight to my A school for Hospital Corpsman. I just graduated from school on July 1. I had a couple weeks of leave which was really nice and the best part was to be able to be around my family for the whole time. Now I am stationed in Naples, Italy for 2 years working at the Naval Hospital that is on base. The base is really nice from what I can tell from what I have seen of it so far. So hopefully I will be better at posting to keep all of you updated on my travels here and what is going on.

Until later,

Until Later...

So my name of my blog is actually going to be starting in a couple of days!

But before I go on, just wanted to say that I had a great time on the cruise that I went on to the Bahamas on Norwegian Cruise Line. I can't wait to go back on another on with the same cruise line. (Especially their new ship, The Epic that they are going to have really soon. It looks AMAZING!)

I will have to post some pics another day, because I am crazy busy right at the moment.

So back to the title...I leave for bootcamp tomorrow! Where has the time gone? These past 10 months have flown by! I have to go meet with my recruiter at 1130 tomorrow I guess to finish up some paper work and then after that I will be taken up to St. Louis where the processing place is. I will spend the night up there and on the 20th I will get up really early and do my last bit of physicals. I think that the only things that they will really check is my weight, do a drug test and pregancy test and that should be it. I will swear in again, this time offically, and then I will be off to Great Lakes, IL to bootcamp.

So right now, I am doing pretty good. Just trying to get some last minute things done before I have to leave. I will be up there for 8 weeks and should graduate sometime around the 3rd week in March.

I am going to miss reading all of your posts while I am gone! Oh well, guess that will give me something to do when I get done.

I will do an update post once I graduate, just so that you all know that I made it lol

Until Later,

The Past Couple of Weeks

December 13, 2009

Sunday

I had my graduation/going away party.

Had a better than expected turn out. We had about 35 people show up which was a little over half of how many we invited. At first we thought that we didn't order enough food, but as it turned out, we had a lot of left overs!

December 18, 2009

Friday

Celebrated a friend's birthday!

I called into work that night, which I normally don't do that, but let me tell you, it was completely worth it!

I don't think that I had that much of a good time since the start of the fall semester.

I didn't get home until 130 or so.

I got to meet some of her friends and they wereawesome.

December 19, 2009

Saturday

Was the big day!

(well at least in the education part of my life!)

Graduation had finally come.

It started at 930 in the morning.

It was a pretty nice ceremony, but of course they could have done with out some parts of it, but thats ok.

My mom, dad, sister, grandma, uncle, and aunt all got to go to it.

My uncle had just gotten home from Seattle they night before, so it was nice that he could make it as well.

December 20, 2009

Sunday

Went shopping all day in St. Louis!

Me, mom, my sister and my uncle left around 730 that morning.

We went to the Galleria Mall and maybe spent a few hours there.

Then we went to Trader Joes, one of my favorite stores.

Looked around WholeFoods. First time going there, and I wish there was one closer to me instead of being 2 hours away.

Then we went to Costco, which is one of my uncle's favorite places to shop at. I have to say they do have pretty good deals on things.

I don't think that we got back until 9 that night.

I think that was the most time that we got to spend with my uncle when ever he gets the chance to come home for the holidays. I really enjoyed spending the day with him, my sister and my mom.

December 21, 2009

Monday

Celebrated my sister's birthday.

She turned 26.

We didn't do a whole lot

just had a small little family party at home.

She picked what we cooked for dinner, which was tacos,turned out pretty good :)

And then we had Larry House of Cakes, red velvet cupcakes, yum-o!

(a little side note: they have the best iced sugar cookies that you could possibly have, especially the pink ones! for some reason the pink ones are the best)

December 24, 2009

Thursday

Got together with my mom's side of the family at my grandma's house.

Had great food, like always!

I don't know what it is but you can't get anything better than enjoying grandma's cooking.

Then we all opened gifts after everyone got done eating.

I got exactly what I wanted.

I finally got a North Face jacket and some gloves to go with it!

They are so warm!

But really, what I enjoyed the most was how the that side of the family got to spend time with each other.

Later that night, we opened all of our gifts that were just from each other.

I do believe that mom, dad, my sister, and myself loved what we got from each other.

We open our gifts on Christmas Eve because we go to my Dad's side of the family on the 25th. But this year we did this, because my dad had to work from 8-4 on Christmas day.

By the way, I got so many DVDs to add to my collection that I could open up a small video rental place. haha!

December 25, 2009

CHRISTmas Day!!

Went to my aunt's place to have lunch and exchange gifts with my dad's side of the family.

Had a great time spending the afternoon with everyone.

I think that everyone enjoyed what they got.

Then we all got to talk to my aunt who lives in Colorado,

which was nice because I don't really get to talk to her that much like we should.

After that we just sat around and watched a movie that my uncle had gotten and enjoyed each others company.

So I will post some pictures of the events that I told you about in the next post.

Hopes everyone has a great weekend!

Until later,

Merry Christmas!

(I will come back and do a complete post of what has happend the past week or so)

Thank God I am feeling better!

Especially since I have to go workout tomorrow with everybody that is in the same Navy DEP group as I am in.

So hopefully I will be able to do pretty well tomorrow and be able to do at least 16 pushups within the time limit.

I am praying that my arms will have the strength to be able to do that!

Until later,