<p>Received TWO letters from our new cadet today. In one she she listed some “high points of the past week:”</p>
<p>Sleeping till 6:30 am on sunday</p>
<p>Complemented on her hair bun by a cadre sergeant</p>
<p>Successfully cut the cake properly at the platoon leader’s table at dinner</p>
<p>Passed platoon leader’s room inspection</p>
<p>Got something called “big bites” (?) for room being in order</p>
<p>More “big bites” for a high score on her APFT</p>
<p>finding out the new style boots don’t have to be shined</p>
<p>Some of the “downers” :</p>
<p>Lost ID tag (resulted in 150 push-ups)</p>
<p>A Uniform party (evidently the other squad members were slow getting dressed so they ran this 2 minute drill–change into BDU’s, then white over grays, then in PT uniform then back again)</p>
<p>Having to clean the ladies rest room singlehanded as she is the only female member of her squad </p>
<p>Running up and down the 6 floors of stairs 6 or 7 times a day to get to their rooms (then being told that company assignments will remain as they are after A day)</p>
<p>finding out the boots are more comfortable than the low quarters dress shoes</p>
<p>Flashlights and alarm clocks have been taken away till after Beast so letters are being read under the sheets at night by the light of a wristwatch!</p>
<p>She does say that each day is “a little better” than the one before…gotta love it!</p>