It's been a little while since I've posted anything, we had a major multinational airborne operation the first week of May that consumed a lot of time and energy, we were rewarded with a three day weekend, however, that friday evening, I started feeling a bit of a sore throat. That sore throat turned into a cold that ruined my weekend, slept a lot, blew my nose a lot, etc. For me the last week was a three day work week, thanks to having duty on Thursday evening (Friday was off, but I slept until 1400).
I have learned that duty in the Army is a far different creature. I think it is wasteful of time and badly managed. They had put out the May duty roster at the end of April, so I knew that I had the weekends off. For Memorial Day, we have a four day weekend, so I signed up for a trip to Copan, where there are Mayan ruins. Last Thursday I opened a revised duty roster showing that I was supposed to have duty on Memorial Day, I was like, NO WAY! I was not a happy camper. The change was really due to an error by the Duty roster coordinator, which in they Navy would mean the watchbill coordinator would be standing that duty, but no, the Army just says stick it to the next available person. The Army actually has a regulation addressing duty rotations. It is kinda stupid, the Navy actually troubles to differ between duty that falls on regular weekends, vice duty that falls on holiday weekends...
This last weekend, we spent Saturday at the orphanage. Some little girl was trying to teach me a spanish version of patty-cake. Given that I am so overwhelmingly coordinated, it didn't work too well. Sunday was a trip to Valley of Angels, a souvenir town about 2 hours away, followed by stop at the Mall in the capital, Tegucigalpa. I bought a couple of knick-nacks and then at the mall I looked in the bookstore before we went to eat a TGI Fridays, actually a decent meal that was a welcome break from the Dining Facility here on base. Below are a couple of pictures.
The group I was with, L to R, Eduardo (CIV), Sureisa (USAF) Gwendolyn (USA), Lilija (USA).A nice representation of the base composition.
The town is a little country, as evidence by the horses.
