Monday, December 2nd, work work work. It was a pretty quiet day so we all wondered
why we didn’t get the day off… I know we get the day off a lot, but we work a
lot too!
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Tuesday, December 3rd, after work I ran to ipark mall so I could buy
tickets for the new Hunger Games movie – unfortunately I was too early to buy
movie tickets for Sunday… I was too excited!
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Wednesday, December 4th, work work work! I spent most of the night dealing with drama
revolved around who had the keys to the cabinets that had our tactical gear in
it.
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Thursday, December 5th, we had tactical PRT in the morning with
our IOTV (body armor stuff) It was
actually pretty fun especially when I scared the crap out of one of my soldiers
by actually picking him up and carrying him instead of just dragging him like
the rest of the females. After work I
went for a run to ipark mall again and actually bought the tickets this time!
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Friday, December 6th, I woke up realizing that running so much
after doing tactical PRT with my IOTV was a very bad idea – my back was hurting
pretty badly. After work I went out to
the Navy Club for drinks and then ended up out in Itaewon to hear one of my
friends who plays in a cover band play.
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Saturday, December 7th, was a fairly relaxed day for me. The Vice President came to post and I had
volunteered to be a part of the group that played for him but my higher ups
decided they wanted a real sax player rather than me. So instead I went for a run and ended up
running 15 miles. That night I went with
my friend Dan Cantu to his holiday party on post. Dan didn’t
want to go by himself and I happened to have a fancy dress. I was a bit nervous at first since it was a
bunch of officers that I didn’t know, but I ended up having a great time! It was hysterical because my band’s jazz
combo was playing at the party and I hadn’t told any of them I was going to be
there. It took them a while to figure
out who I was – apparently I look very different in a dress than I do in
uniform! However, by the end of the
evening I was in rough shape – running 15 miles and then standing around in
heels was a bad idea for my feet!
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Sunday, December 8th, got up early to watch MSU beat OSU in big
ten champs game!!! I went with a group
to watch it at the Navy Club (since they were going to be open in the morning
and had tvs!) I honestly didn’t think we
were going to do so well… it was awesome!
Afterwards, I went with some friends to go see Hunger Games 2 in 4D
which was a really cool experience!
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Monday December 9th, we did a Seoul Tower walk for morning, worked
all day and then went to our chicken and beer for dinner for Alan’s going away
party.
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Tuesday, December 10th, was a fairly tame day - MPT rehearsals and
paperwork, then to add to the excitement, I went to the commissary after work. Wild times had by all!
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Wednesday, December 11th, we had a MPT rehearsal in morning, then
in the afternoon the Canadian Brass came to give us a master class for two of
our brass quintets and the woodwind quintet.
It was quite an interesting experience!
For dinner that night, I made my blue cheese and onion sauce steak for dinner
for Herold, Dan and Sam.
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Thursday, December 12th, I didn’t made it to PRT since my back was
hurting fairly badly. I ended up going
to sick call where the doctor was worried about my back and put me on basically
a dead man’s profile. And they put at
shot in my butt. It made me unable to
feel by body and very woozy. Apparently
people thought I was pretty funny for the rest of the day!
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Friday, December 13th, we had our Band Change of Command which was
the climax for the day. I was still
pretty heavy drugged since they doctor had prescribed muscle relaxers for
me. Afterwards I went back to my BEQ and
ended up cleaning pretty obsessively. I
was going to meet my friends at the Navy Club but it was closed so I ended up
meeting up with a friend out in Itaewon.
The drugs started effecting me pretty badly – I don’t think that type of
muscle relaxer was good for me unfortunately.
Luckily I have good friends who helped me out.
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Saturday, December 14th, I stopped taking the muscle relaxers and
got the drugs cleaned out of my system.
I played at the first general’s Holiday Reception all afternoon. It was interesting because I ran into some of
the officers and their wives that I had met at the holiday party I went to with
my friend. I also got to eat a lot in
between sets and it was a great spread!
They even had bacon chocolate cupcakes!
That night I went out with my friend Jake and a couple other friends –
we went out to Hongdae to listen to a cover band. One of my friends and I got into an argument
about the best chicken and beer place so I had to take him to mine to try!
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Sunday, December 15th, was one of the best lazy
days. I slept in, watched movie, and read. Couldn’t ask for anything better!
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Monday, December 16th, was our first day of caroling around post
with my Woodwind Quintet. We had to go
to formation and got stuck in EO class first, but then went over to the Finance
building to play for the money folks and then for DTS/G8. The Colonel there coined us. Then we went to the post office and got
kicked out. It was an interesting
juxtaposition of things. We also went to
try to play at the Dragon Hill but they are busy with musicians. We took lunch and then went to play at the
ACS building for housing and transportation.
Afterwards we went to AFN where my buddy, Ed got us on the radio live to
plug for ourselves and for all the other caroling groups. It definitely helps to have
connections!!! It was fun getting to
carol around post – I can’t tell you how many Koreans took pictures/video of us
playing. They really like music!
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Tuesday, December 17th, was our second day of caroling. We started early at the Hospital – we played
in the chow hall and then in front of the pharmacy. Afterwards we went to another big building
and played in multiple locations – PAO, IG, Chaplains, and Force
Management. We took a coffee break for
those in my group who are having issues keeping up and then went and played at
for the Staff Judge Advocate. We went
and played at the USO and then took lunch at the hospital Katusa snack
bar. After lunch we went to Protocol
with a captain who thinks we are his personal woodwind quintet. He opened the doors to his building so
everyone could hear “his” music. Then he
asked if we had played over at 8th Army headquarters – we said no,
you had to have a security badge to get in.
He said he had one and escorted us over!
We played for a bit there and then decided that was a good way to end on
a good note! Afterwards, I worked on
some paperwork and dealt with too much drama.
However, I officially am 6 months through my tour in Korea and
only have 6 more months to go!!!
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Wednesday, December 18th, was the start of the half day schedule
and subsequently was a very laid back day!
We went to the pool for PRT in the morning and then I did some paperwork
in the morning and then practiced for a bit.
After lunch, I didn’t have to go back to work so I bummed around a bit,
read, watched tv shows and pretended to be productive!
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