Boot Camp- Week 3

Week 3 was pretty boring. Finish up some testing, which really didnt matter if you failed or not. Alls you had to do was pass the 3rd test and PRT, thats it. Cept they dont tell you that of course. We started doing some online classes, which were wicked boring. Had to put headphones on and then take a test at the end of it, in which every single person helped everyone else out with to help them pass.

During this week we also had basic seamanship, which was learning how to tie knots, and we went on a fake ship and learned how to untie from a port, hook up to a port, and man over board procedures, it was really nice. we ended up doing better than i thought.
By this time we were getting our like 2nd haircut. i know i forgot to mention our first haircut the 2nd day we got there, but these people were ruthless. We were in and out in like 5 seconds. had to tell them about my mole so they wouldnt rip it off. but they did terrible the second time around, they really dont care about you whatsoever.
Other things i forgot to talk about- Sundays were holiday routine, which meant we could do pretty much anything from 7am-1pm. it was meant for cleaning racks, ironing, showering, writing letters, shining boots, etc. People mostly just wrote letters and showered. You were not allowed to sleep or even lean against your bed. Thus people started sleeping in the bathroom, and taking hour long showers and falling asleep standing up. I didnt think it was possible to fall asleep standing up, but now i am a true believer in it, because it happened to me later on down the road.

Every night (cept weekends) we would get mail call at 730pm, which was the best time of the day. We would all look forward to getting mail from loved ones, and became ecstatic when we got one. There were so many letters that our mail PO (petty officer-shoemo!) would bring up to our compartment, so if you didnt receive any mail one day, you would def. receive some the next day.