Going away statement.
So, tomorrow i leave home on my way to Fort Jackson in Columbia South Carolina. I'll be there for about 9 weeks doing my Basic Combat Training with the U.S. Army. For the past couple of months I have been preparing for this, physically and mentally but few things can compare to what awaits me in this journey.
Hopefully during these last few weeks we found time to hang out together this last week I had the pleasure of sharing some fun moments with family and friends, and although it was nice, it also really messed with my mind, got me thinking if its really worth it, and the impotence of knowing theres nothing I can do anymore doesn't help but also kind of against my will I was apointed to assist to one last drill weekend with the RSP unit which I thought it would suck being as it was my last weekend here but it also brought me back on track about my decision and being there with people that have gone through what I'm about to go through and people with the same goals as me it really reinforced my spirits, I dont care how cheesy it may sound. For the time of my stay there I wont be allowed to have a cellphone or computer, nor acces to either one, but this isnt a farewell letter, I will only be gone for about 2 months and I'll be back before you guys notice, this is something I've been wanting to do for over 3 years, I just had it in the back of my head and although nerveracking it's also very exiting to me, you guys know me and I'll do my best and keep that smile on my face, I really want to thank Mr. Peterson, my U.S. Gov. teacher also a green beret and former National Guardsmen, Specialist Preciado he's been really helpful so far and I know he will still be, and Sgt. Medina who also helped me out throughout the way.
Anyways, I'm out, there's stuff I've got to take care of but thanks for taking the time for reading this, I would really apreciate it if you guys would take the time to write me a letter, just saying hi, or giving me an update on Teresa I'll have someone post my adress on facebook soon. I'll miss you guys but I'll stay strong and do my best.
-Felio
Hoooaah!
10/24/2010
9/04/2010
operation Iraqi freedom
"The United States has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people. We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in Iraq, and spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home. We have persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people—a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it is time to turn the page"
-Barrack Hussein Obama
So, as most of you i hope have heard on August 31 2010 our commander in chief and president Barrack Obama declared an end to operation Iraqi freedom and operation New Dawn begins (sounds like a sequel to star wars haha) what does this mean? well it means that officially our combat mission is over and the remaining 50,000 troops that will stay ther until next year will be doing peacekeeping and training missions to help the Iraqi military and police forces to be self sufficent, qualified, and dependable when it comes to taking care of their own country, wow, I remember being a 10 year old kid and seeing those images of war on tv i never wouldve thought this was going to take as long as it has, i dont think even bush was planning to spend so much time there either, im sure he thought it would be a walk in the park, well this walk in the park costed 4,417 us soldiers their lives and 103,819 civilian deaths was it for oil? was it for his own convenience or was it to make daddy proud? I dont know I'm sure Michael Moore would be glad to tell you with his right winged propaganda how 911 was a conspiracy that had been in the oven since who knows when. Oh boy was this a War... this thing was craaaaaaazy, i mean just think about all that is related to this WTC, Black Water crimes, Sadam Hussein, over 1,347,970 troops deployed, deployment tours controversies, and the funny thing is that this wasnt even a WAR officially it was only an "extended Military conflict/involvement"
this should scare all of us because it showed us the president can do whatever he wants without consulting the people we elected to represent us optimally in a time of crisis the president asks congress for their aproval to declare war, well little georgie decided he was to cool for that and did whatever he wanted, he decided for us he was going to send our people to a land far away, he decided he was going to use our name to further anger these extremist groups and he was going to use out tax money, and leave us with a nice bill he wont have to pay but i am....'wow...7 years i cant believe how long it was, theres so much things to talk about i wouldnt know where to start but i know where it ends, theres no reason to point fingers at someone, and blame them, what would be the point, after all whatever the reasons where, i think we did do some good out there, but i think it balances out with the harm we did or we caused, truth is that Iraq is a troubled country with or without us, but im glad we're working on getting out of there, God bless out troops and welcome back boys
-Barrack Hussein Obama
So, as most of you i hope have heard on August 31 2010 our commander in chief and president Barrack Obama declared an end to operation Iraqi freedom and operation New Dawn begins (sounds like a sequel to star wars haha) what does this mean? well it means that officially our combat mission is over and the remaining 50,000 troops that will stay ther until next year will be doing peacekeeping and training missions to help the Iraqi military and police forces to be self sufficent, qualified, and dependable when it comes to taking care of their own country, wow, I remember being a 10 year old kid and seeing those images of war on tv i never wouldve thought this was going to take as long as it has, i dont think even bush was planning to spend so much time there either, im sure he thought it would be a walk in the park, well this walk in the park costed 4,417 us soldiers their lives and 103,819 civilian deaths was it for oil? was it for his own convenience or was it to make daddy proud? I dont know I'm sure Michael Moore would be glad to tell you with his right winged propaganda how 911 was a conspiracy that had been in the oven since who knows when. Oh boy was this a War... this thing was craaaaaaazy, i mean just think about all that is related to this WTC, Black Water crimes, Sadam Hussein, over 1,347,970 troops deployed, deployment tours controversies, and the funny thing is that this wasnt even a WAR officially it was only an "extended Military conflict/involvement"
this should scare all of us because it showed us the president can do whatever he wants without consulting the people we elected to represent us optimally in a time of crisis the president asks congress for their aproval to declare war, well little georgie decided he was to cool for that and did whatever he wanted, he decided for us he was going to send our people to a land far away, he decided he was going to use our name to further anger these extremist groups and he was going to use out tax money, and leave us with a nice bill he wont have to pay but i am....'wow...7 years i cant believe how long it was, theres so much things to talk about i wouldnt know where to start but i know where it ends, theres no reason to point fingers at someone, and blame them, what would be the point, after all whatever the reasons where, i think we did do some good out there, but i think it balances out with the harm we did or we caused, truth is that Iraq is a troubled country with or without us, but im glad we're working on getting out of there, God bless out troops and welcome back boys
6/08/2010
ASVAB tomorrow.
so tomorrow i take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery also known as ASVAB, which is making me kind of nervous, not that much the test itself cause i know im smart as fuck, but what the test represents, its starting to feel real, and i really hope this is whats going to be the best for me, oh, by the way, i graduated on tuesday which was cool, but so far life after highschool has not been too good with me, yesterday i went to ensenada and i got to hang out with some old friends lastnight, which was pretty cool, we had fun and then some tacos :) haha boy do i love ensenada tacos :p well anyways, i should go to sleep because i have that test to take tomorrow and i should be as fresh as i can tomorrow, what i do in the next 3 years depends on it..... peeeace!
5/14/2010
Tthe kid that got stung by a bee
The kid that got stung by a bee.
Dont take my word for it, i just overheard this on the bus, some guys where talking about it, but aparently some kid was all into bugs, and collecting butterflys and all that stuff right? and one day while chasing butterflys around he came upon a funny looking flower, he had heard about it before, people described it as red, juicy, and i guess sorta funny looking, or maybe not funny, but fun, something that would make you smile and feel good no matter what, but when he finally came upon it he rather thought it looked confusing, green and purple mixed together to make the most strange thing he had seen before, it wasnt ugly, it was prescious, it was amazing, it was the greatest thing he had seen, if it wasnt because he had gotten so mesmerized by it and got too close that he smelled it, "now what the..." he thought, he got dizzy, and felt this urge to throw up, he had never felt like this before all these colors from the beautiful flower slowly started coloring everything around him, to the point where he could not tell what was the flower and what was really around him, the petals started wrapping him around and slowly brought him closer to its core, and there he saw this bee, he had seen bees before... and each one had been weirder than the other, and he always thought, this must be the strangest animal ever, but then again he saw this one which made the other ones look so normal, this one was weird, it had 2 tiny wings, and black and yellow stripes all over her body and six legs, "how odd" he said to himself, "how can you be so strange, yet so beautiful, and just happen to be in this, the strangest flower in the world" he didnt know what to do but he had to do something, the petals where bringing him closer to it so he decided to grab it, he put it in his hand and stared at it, took a good look at it, it wasnt in his palm though.... it was in the back of his hand, just where he had that nasty cut he had gotten while playing with a knife a day before, and the bee just started walking around the back of his hand and slowly got closer to his still raw wound and just walked around it making him feel a discomfort he could not bear, and quickly grabbed it with his other hand which he pulled out of that bag of chips he had in his backpack and bam! it stung him
the first thing he could think of was the stinging pain this had brought him, but he was then amused at how the bee had gone back to his initial hand, this time in the palm, "this bee had pretty much just killed herself" he thought but yet she refused to leave him, it was going to spend her last moments alive with him, by this time the petals had brought him so close to the flower it disapeared, everything around him was just colors and other unexplicable factors that stimulized all of his senses in different ways he had never felt before, and he would think of so many things, he was pissed off at the bee for stinging him, but instantly it went away, being replaced by a feeling of sorrow for the bee, it was dying because of him, whose fault was it? he didnt know, he didnt care, he was determined to spend those last moments with that bee, admiring its beauty and thinking how lucky he was for finding such a unique beautiful bee. some more time went by and everything around him was so surreal from that flower he didnt even now if he was a human anymore that bee was not in his hand anymore he couldnt see his hand but the bee was still there they both stared at each other and they both flew away.
the next day the cops found the boy dead next to a bunch of roses, the kid had died from an infection he had gotten in his hand.
Dont take my word for it, i just overheard this on the bus, some guys where talking about it, but aparently some kid was all into bugs, and collecting butterflys and all that stuff right? and one day while chasing butterflys around he came upon a funny looking flower, he had heard about it before, people described it as red, juicy, and i guess sorta funny looking, or maybe not funny, but fun, something that would make you smile and feel good no matter what, but when he finally came upon it he rather thought it looked confusing, green and purple mixed together to make the most strange thing he had seen before, it wasnt ugly, it was prescious, it was amazing, it was the greatest thing he had seen, if it wasnt because he had gotten so mesmerized by it and got too close that he smelled it, "now what the..." he thought, he got dizzy, and felt this urge to throw up, he had never felt like this before all these colors from the beautiful flower slowly started coloring everything around him, to the point where he could not tell what was the flower and what was really around him, the petals started wrapping him around and slowly brought him closer to its core, and there he saw this bee, he had seen bees before... and each one had been weirder than the other, and he always thought, this must be the strangest animal ever, but then again he saw this one which made the other ones look so normal, this one was weird, it had 2 tiny wings, and black and yellow stripes all over her body and six legs, "how odd" he said to himself, "how can you be so strange, yet so beautiful, and just happen to be in this, the strangest flower in the world" he didnt know what to do but he had to do something, the petals where bringing him closer to it so he decided to grab it, he put it in his hand and stared at it, took a good look at it, it wasnt in his palm though.... it was in the back of his hand, just where he had that nasty cut he had gotten while playing with a knife a day before, and the bee just started walking around the back of his hand and slowly got closer to his still raw wound and just walked around it making him feel a discomfort he could not bear, and quickly grabbed it with his other hand which he pulled out of that bag of chips he had in his backpack and bam! it stung him
the first thing he could think of was the stinging pain this had brought him, but he was then amused at how the bee had gone back to his initial hand, this time in the palm, "this bee had pretty much just killed herself" he thought but yet she refused to leave him, it was going to spend her last moments alive with him, by this time the petals had brought him so close to the flower it disapeared, everything around him was just colors and other unexplicable factors that stimulized all of his senses in different ways he had never felt before, and he would think of so many things, he was pissed off at the bee for stinging him, but instantly it went away, being replaced by a feeling of sorrow for the bee, it was dying because of him, whose fault was it? he didnt know, he didnt care, he was determined to spend those last moments with that bee, admiring its beauty and thinking how lucky he was for finding such a unique beautiful bee. some more time went by and everything around him was so surreal from that flower he didnt even now if he was a human anymore that bee was not in his hand anymore he couldnt see his hand but the bee was still there they both stared at each other and they both flew away.
the next day the cops found the boy dead next to a bunch of roses, the kid had died from an infection he had gotten in his hand.
5/13/2010
thursday....
so, today i got my tux and prom tickets for me and Laura, and its barely starting to hit me that ill be out of highschool in 2 weeks :( hahaha i couldnt wait to get out of highschool about a month ago... but as it gets closer and closer it gets scarier, i guess im kind of afraid it will all go downhill from here like most people say, i hope its not..... im pretty sure i can do better :) this saturday im also taking my final for my EMT100 class, which is exiting! anyways... i dont think there is anything else that i should say... sooo yeah hahaha just an update :p
4/02/2010
3/24/2010
wednesday
sooo i guess i have not had time to post a new blog, which sucks :( i really wanted to do this every day but its hard and its been getting harder lately, soo heres just a random update haha
well swim season started like 3 weeks ago, thats why i dont have much time anymore, which sucks because im pretty sure my grades are going in the gutter these next report card, which if it happens im quitting swim fo'sho, anyways, well yesterday i went kayaking, which was awesome :) i fell in love with it and i wanna do it again, hmm... oh yeah, im on spring break already, which is awesome i was falling behind in my paramedic class because i didnt have time to study, so this 2 weeks off are nice :) hmm i think thats it :p
well swim season started like 3 weeks ago, thats why i dont have much time anymore, which sucks because im pretty sure my grades are going in the gutter these next report card, which if it happens im quitting swim fo'sho, anyways, well yesterday i went kayaking, which was awesome :) i fell in love with it and i wanna do it again, hmm... oh yeah, im on spring break already, which is awesome i was falling behind in my paramedic class because i didnt have time to study, so this 2 weeks off are nice :) hmm i think thats it :p
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