Marcheline Ivanova

So february 15 I took a flight from new york where I’m from to great lakes, illinois to start my career in the u.s. navy. I did 1 and a half months of basic training or boot camp as most people like to call it. It was basically the worst 7 weeks of my life. I was away from my girlfriend and everybody I knew, I had to take shit every fucking day from superiors and recruit training commanders and even females like myself, other recruits. I had to deal with their attitudes, bad habits, all kinds of silly shit. These girls came from everywhere you can think of and there were 89 of us. I had to go through difficult excersises and change my eating habits. I had to study my ass off to pass the tests and I lost so much sleep. Everything we had to do had to be perfect because ‘attention to detail’ is very important. I’m trying not to sound like I’m complaining because after all its only supposed to be 2 months and we’re going through all this together and I’m not the first person to do this and in the end I get the opportunity to start a very good career. And don’t get me wrong, I had so many good moments like passing my tests etc. In the end it’s going to be worth it. I’m not done with bootcamp but I’ve grown from this experience, I’m a much cleaner person lol and when I have tests and inspections I study hard whereas in high school I was a major slacker. Hell, I flunked out of college after a year. Anyway the worst part is that I broke my leg in the second to last week of boot camp and now I’m here in a military hospital next to the base and I have to wait 2-3 months for my leg to heal and I have to do physical therapy. I hate that I still have 2 weeks of tests to look forward to while my division who has graduated april 13 is enjoying their freedom. I’m very proud of them though, they deserve it. My mom, gma, and sister came to visit it me today it was very nice. My mom brought my phone and ipad. My girlfriend visited about 5 days ago it was wonderful, I hadn’t seen her in 2 months :( it’s very difficult being in a long distance relationship but we are both working very hard. I love her so much and I hate not being able to touch her and kiss her and hug her and have her hold me whenever I want like I used to. People who are in relationships where significant others live nearby, do not take them for granted and be greatful you can do all of those things I just listed whenever. At one point I wanted to seperate from the navy for her I’m just so unhappy. I have a 5 year contract I have to get through. Anyway that’s been my experience and thank you for reading this long ass story :p