I haven't heard from Justin since Saturday evening when he had a 12 hour lay-over in Seattle and I went to bed. By the time I woke up, he was somewhere on a plane over the Pacific. Since he arrived in Korea, he has been working on trying to get internet. Every morning when I wake up I check my computer to see if he is on. I've received some e-mails from him, but with a 15 hour time difference and the fact that he has only been to get a few minutes of internet time, our schedules have never matched up. Well, imagine my excitement when I woke up this morning and signed on to the computer and saw that he was logged on to Skype. I immediately tried to video chat with him, but both of my attempts went unanswered. I was a little bummed. After all, he was probably asleep already, it was about 8:15 his time. So I proceeded to log on to my e-mail to see if he had sent me anymore, and then I started receiving a request to chat from him. Yay! Apparently he left his computer up in case I tried to chat, and he heard it and woke up. I would say I feel bad that I woke him up, but I really don't. I was just so thrilled to talk to him.
He's doing really well. He got in Monday afternoon Korea time, so Sunday evening our time and ever since then he has been in-processing and doing all the fun stuff of moving to a new place...buying groceries, cleaning his room, getting all of his new squadron "gear". He is living in what is commonly referred to as the "punk" dorms. It is where all of the new wingman live. It is typically a bunch of lieutenants, but since he is a FAIP, he is also a wingman and preffered to live there as opposed to the "fossil" dorms. The dorm is about the size of his dorm room in college, except that he has a full size bed, his own bathroom, and a kitchenette. From what I have heard, the dorms can also feel a bit like college as well with late night partying and people in and out of your room all the time. Oh boy! I'm curious how Justin is going to like that. I think he will find it to be fun for a few weeks, maybe even a month or two, but I think after having your own home and family, it may get old after awhile. We'll see. I am just speaking from my point of view. =)
Other than that, he's just busy getting introduced to his new squadron, the Juvats. He should be in the full swing of his new job starting next week. He will be traveling to Alaska with the squadron in April for Red Flag. Too bad Alaska isn't closer. It stinks knowing he will be back in this country, but still so stinkin' far away. He's probably closer to Korea there than Texas. HaHa! Don't know if that is true or not, but it feels that way at least.
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