Saturday, September 19, 2009

New Privileges + Going Off Campus = A Good Week

Thursday morning was one of the happier I've had since coming here. When I got back from my firefighting class, I found that the Plebe Regulations had changed in a few places. The main change was that we could now listen to music, so long as we use headphones. This is a huge privilege because most classes before us have not been able to listen to music on their computers or iPods until Recognition. I wouldn't be surprised though, if some "brilliant" Plebes find a way to mess this up for the rest of us.

With that news, the rest of Thursday went a whole lot better with the buzz of these changes in the regs. The rest of Thursday was really not all that exciting, though we did have a cleaning party in our barracks to clean our cleaning stations.

Friday during school hours was not too exciting either, though I got to meet my sponsor, and I got to go to the restaurant on campus where Plebes are not allowed. Sponsor families usually provide Plebes and actually Midshipmen of all classes a place to relax during Liberty or leave, as well as leave campus a couple times a trimester for dinner liberties. So far my sponsor seems to be pretty cool, so I'm pretty fortunate. We had marching practice at the end of school for some sort of parade that is coming up, but I'm not sure what exactly. We had another cleaning party that night that took about two hours to get all of the cleaning stations up to inspection standards. After we were done, our Platoon Commander (floor leader) asked us what kind of food we would like to get. Since we wanted a change from the normal choice of pizza, most of us decided on ice cream. Our Platoon Commander then went out to CVS to get us our pints of ice cream. Unfortunately, they were out of many flavors, so many didn't get their first or second choices, but real ice cream was a definite treat.

Today started about 0630 for me because I wanted to catch some breakfast before finishing up the cleaning for our inspection. There ended up being a lot more than I expected since a few things in my room didn't get done, as well as the mopping of the hallways. I did end up getting everything done, though I needed a few more minutes than everybody else. Thankfully, inspection went pretty well even though I was not satisfied with how our room turned out.

After we were secured from inspection, the rest of the Plebe class was required to attend the soccer game, but I and some of my friends did not have to go because of our BBQ off-campus with InterVarsity Fellowship at Eisenhower Park. When we got there around 1130, there were about 60 total, including the Kings Pointers. We had a great time playing touch football, Frisbee, volleyball, and an egg toss with civilian college students. It was really weird seeing people our own age who don't go to a military academy because their lives are so different from ours. I would still say that it was a great time to fellowship with people like that as well as eat some good food.

Once we got back, we were pretty much free to do whatever we want, since the football game was over. There was another overtime game this week, only this time we did not have the same result as last week. Our other arch rival, SUNY Maritime, ended up pulling off the win after we were unable to score in our overtime chance. That may have been part of the reason that we were not granted liberty, but I'm guessing there were other causes as well. Tonight was mainly spent relaxing, which felt really good after a hectic few days preparing for inspection. Tomorrow holds a scrimmage for baseball, as well as a reception for Plebes and their sponsors at Land Hall, which both should be a lot of fun. Stand by for further posts.

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