Not My Idea of a Holiday!

Ahhh, the military. The home of many testosterone driven men with a passion for killing so-called "bad guys", such as the Taleban and...who else? Anyway, last Saturday I was whisked off to the rather-not-so exotic place of Penhale military camp, Cornwall. Not your idea of a summer holiday I presume, and not mine, I can tell you that for free!
Well, it wasn't too bad I guess, the only real things that I hated through to the depths of my heart were the military parts of it. For instance, waking up at 5:45 to do a rubbish sweep of the area, having the turnovers of our sheets on our beds exactly the same lengths, marching just to get some food, and all of the other stupid formalities. And don't even get me started on the military phrases..."Happy Days!" will give me nightmares for many weeks to come.
The first few days were probably the worst. I wasn't used to all this military shiz and the banter about me being one of the only Navy personnel on camp weren't much to my liking. Firing a machine gun was pretty awesome, and stalking around the sand dunes wasn't too bad either, but the weather at that point was shockingly bad. Rain, rain and more rain!
On the Tuesday night however things started to look up. We went to see Transformers 2 as a sort of break from military activities, and it was friggin' awesome! Seriously, what could be better than robots fighting, huge explosions, fast cars, spaceships and Megan Fox? The 2 1/2 hours went past in a flash, and I would quite happily go and see it again. I give it 9.5/10
The Wednesday brought adventure training day, involving sailing, kayaking, raft-building and, wait for it, volleyball! Strangely, the most enjoyable event wasn't actually involved in the adventure training at all, it was there as a time-filling exercise. Yes, you guessed it, of course it was the volleyball! Spirits were high leading into the most daunting task of the week; the 24-hour exercise. I won't go into glorious details, but the fact that we had to do 45-minute patrols, hour-long sentry duties and 3 hours' sleep basically tell you the story. Oh, and we fired blanks the next morning during ambushes :)
Anyway, I'm home now, and even more importantly, IT'S THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!! Easily the best moment in the school calendar!
Danny out.