Another week down

So once again, I realize it's been a long time (a week this time) since my last post. Well, things have been a bit busy and/or I wasn't it the most social mood some of those days.

Anyway...the big news (to me) is that I'm now living in the building instead of the tent. I'll post a picture at the bottom of this post so you can get an idea. I didn't mind the tent by any means, but the building is nice. Each 'bay' has four bunk beds for up to eight people. They've been putting six to seven to each bay. Right now our bay only has two people (a third just came tonight but he should be moving out shortly); so we have lots of room. We also have wireless Internet in this building, so I should get better at posting, answering emails, downloading pictures, etc. We shall see.

We also went down the street to Camp Warehouse the other day. Camp Warehouse is where the Regional Command (RC) Capital Headquarters is located. There are mainly Turkish, French, Macedonian and Georgian soldiers stationed there. We went for a couple meetings (so officially for work), but timed it so we could have lunch at the French dining facility. It was excellent - filet mignon, fresh bread and cheese (of course) and fresh crepes. They 'do it right' there for sure.

The other two pictures on this post is from Camp Warehouse. One of me by a totem pole of signs pointing out various European cities. The other picture is of 'the gang'. From right to left is Bjorn (Norway), Bruno (France), Leo (Dutch), Gordon (UK), Larry (US), Thomas (Germany), Jaap (Dutch) and 'baby Bjorn' (Norway). Our get together doubled as a farewell for Bjorn who leaves tomorrow for Munster, Germany where he's stationed with the Ger/Neth Corps. 'baby Bjorn' is his replacement (I can't understand, let alone pronounce, his name just yet).

It's those good days (enjoying a coffee on the rooftop in the middle of 'less than ideal' conditions) that I really enjoy. There are many bad days (doing stupid stuff or working for a bad boss), but I know I will miss the good days when I leave active duty (in less than six months now!). Anyway, just interesting to me that regardless of nationality or situation, 'soldiers are soldiers', you get along pretty well and make the best of it.