<p>read her email-arrived late last night. Then followed by a great 20 minute call on her cell, sitting at her desk with 4 bars service! So whereever she is -she was blessed by the cellphone reception gods.....</p>
<p>I didnt get either call this summer, it was an agreed upon arrangement. BUT it was wonderful to just chat about stuff finally. Happy with her situation, survived Hello night just fine, off to the Mid store to buy all the stuff we missed and looking forward to Monday and the start of classes. </p>
<p>I am excited for her. For all of them!</p>
<p>What do the rest of you hear from your mids?</p>
<p>Dh got the call this morning, plus we've gotten some emails. Hello night went well, but she's on crutches and may get dumped to "the pit" in D&B because of it. She's bummed....</p>
<p>Just got an email from my son, he stated the following,"hello night was easy, they started late and then got locked up early...it was about 15 mins long. I'm pretty sure that the time we did it in summer seminar it was longer." It's great that the lines of communication have reopened!</p>
<p>Heard from our son today also. Said they really do get about 50 USNA e-mails everyday. He said some have been in regards to assignments for his classes already. He also said Hello night wasn't bad. He had to chop in circles for a while and say a few rates. Loves his new squad. And I agree, 3106,</p>
<p>"It is great that the lines of communication have reopened!"</p>
<p>You gotta love this CC forum. Sistersunnie and I met on this thing....became friends, prayermoms, talking alot for months....then to discover our kiddos were in the same company...then to discover they were roommates during Plebe Summer...and now CHOSE each other for the ac year! So last night when my daughter is chatting with us on her cell phone, I could HEAR sistersunnie's daughter on her phone, and was informed that the other wonderful roommate was on HER cell phone! I mentioned to my husband how much times have changed. When he was a Plebe, 1968 - they didn't have a phone in their room, or floor! What a big deal it was when there was ONE line put into each room! Now, each kid has their own cell phone so all 3 can talk at once! </p>
<p>Our kiddo said Hell-0 was fun - she treated it like a fraternity rite of passage and said it really wasn't bad at all. </p>
<p>I bet she is the only person in the USA with this choice of interests for her 1st year of college: Arabic major , Glee Club, Bagpipes and Drums....Yep, she's doing all 3 somehow. </p>
<p>I feel spoiled to have email and phone communication now! It's amazing what Plebe Summer does not only to the Plebes, but to us families! :-)</p>
<p>Hey Z...."Fun" in my daughter's lectionary means the following:
hard, challenging, limit-performance enhancing - endurable, and after all is said and done - to have come out of it with the feeling that "I DID IT" makes it F-U-N. This is a kid who thought 3 hour swim drills were 'fun' when everyone else on the team was *****ing like crazy....or the fact that not going to her high school grad nite party to get up instead at 5am for a 10k run in the mud at Camp Pendelton was going to be and indeed was "F-U-N", or being pushed by her high school PE strength coach to do more and more drills on the kettle bars while other girls were crying because he was yelling at them was F-U-N.</p>
<p>So I can tell you "Fun" in her vocab means hard work, well done, and the well-earned achievement of satisfaction afterwards.</p>
<p>Maybe Hell-O night was really Hell.....but I'd never hear that from her. It's just the way she's wired. Guess she got it from her dad 'cause I'd be the big baby crying. :-)</p>
<p>-the thorpedo is ON LINE!!! :)
-the parents are thrilled!!! :) :) :)
-the cell is working just fine from 8th wing
-town liberty today
-has "duty" over labor day weekend.....does that mean no town liberty???
-he feels "like a normal college kid....well, maybe not exactly....."!!!!
-"Hello night" - "not bad at all"..."upperclass are laid back"..."right now"....
-THRILLED to have upperclass lax players in company!!!
-even more thrilled that he "gets to see (gf) today".....
-18 credits for fall
-book shopping today....notebooks et al
-"send powerbars"
-forgot the printer cable at home- sending that as well
-jump from the top meter board in Lejune "a kick"
-fall ball starts next week-
-some "free time".....(that will quickly change! :rolleyes:)
-view of the water from his room
-2 great roomates
-"Happy"....what more can a parent want???!!!!</p>
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<p>Not if he's in the duty section. The thing is, it depends if they rotate the sections through each day, or if the same section takes the whole weekend. I've seen both, and combinations of both.</p>
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<p>This is a bit schizophrenic if you ask me!!! First, we are starved for information, sightings, news, ANYTHING.....practically attacking the mailman daily......then we go to 2 phone calls and several IMs on the same day!!! this is too much!!! </p>
<p>WIll enjoy it all while I can...no doubt classes will change that in short order!</p>
<p>Do have one question however...apparently the thorpedo stuffed nearly every article of clothing and sent it all down to the laundry - but did not get anything back today...."everyone else did" he tells me.....have visions of him going naked to class on monday...oh my.....does this happen, and if it does, do they usually find this stuff??? I am wondering if it has to do with their room changes this past week....????????</p>
<p>The USNA laundry is notorious for screwups, but they'll find it. I had stuff delayed more than once, but they never lost anything. It wouldn't have anything to do with the move because the laundry is delivered to the company area all together (unless that's changed, but I doubt it).</p>
<p>Fun for my daughter means: challenged her, she survived, it was head games and now its over and she knows she can take a bit more than she previously thought. A bit twisted, but thats my kid! </p>
<p>She never said anything about milk and cookies!</p>