A Friendly Visit

For the past two days, my school has had Fall Break. So instead of staying at home and doing nothing, I decided to pay a visit to my high school. I went in around 9:15 a.m. and one of my teachers had to pick me up because of the whole security thing. So, we got down to the classroom, and he asked me to give a little three-minute speech on "What JROTC did for me when I was in high school." It wasn't too bad. I then went into his office to sit for a while. It brought back memories of me and my friends hanging out for hours at a time doing absolutely nothing productive (ahh... good times). Then my friend Nick came in, so he and I chatted for a while. Apparently he is the battalion commander this year, which is awesome!

About half and hour later a few more of my friends came down to the "dungeon," which is where the JROTC room is located. They caught me up on everything that I had missed this year, since I do not go there anymore. While I was still in high school I really hated all of the high school "drama," but now that I am not exposed to it on a regular basis, I find that I miss it. By the time we had finished gossiping it was probably around 11:00 a.m.

The rest of the day was filled with catching up on old times. I found out that my friend Colin got accepted into the US Military Academy at West Point. That is so awesome because the JROTC program went to visit last May, and he loved it there, and next fall he'll be going there. I was having such a good time that I apparently forgot to eat lunch.

In the afternoon, I decided to stay after school to watch the drill team and colorguard practice because I was a part of both teams when I was still in the program. That was fun because I got to see all of my old friends again, and we gossipped some more.

By the end of the day, I was exhausted. However, it was well worth it. I hope to visit sometime soon again.