Basic Training Diary - Day 22
Day 22, Oct 7
Some things you’d just see in the military and nowhere else. For example during rehearsals for the graduation ceremony, we were taught how to clap correctly, in military terms that is. It’s all about one thousand people starting to clap at the same exact moment and the same thousand people stopping on the same exact clap. It’s just strange and really unnatural when you listen to it! It’s like d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d. instead of ddd.d..d.d.d.d…d..ddddd..d.d.d.d.d.dddd.d..d…..d…, you know what I mean.
A lot of sick people now, they’re all wearing face masks 口罩. It’s gotten quite a bit colder since we got back from the holiday. You can nearly say it’s chilly in the morning. I’m trying to stay away from these people! Being sick here is not a good idea! Noone is jealous of me now with the fan on top my head every evening.
We also got to see our final marks for the exams we had. It seems rather unfair for the sit up and chin up marks. I think they scaled the marks to our BMI. I was sure that I did more sit ups than some people but I got a lower mark. I guess this is fair and unfair at the same time. But if they’re using this as a measure of what alternative service one should do, they really should test us on how good we are and not how much we improved. The overall highest mark in our squadron, so including all the physical and paper and other exams was a 79. 79 is not even an A. This means that everyone got B or lower. I don’t know the marks for the other squadrons but it does seem that most of us didn’t try hard enough.
Two nights and one and half days more and I’ll be outta here!