Kristie's Letter, Dated July 16, 2009

Hi all. Kristie has written a few letters and I'm behind in posting them. I'm going to get them posted as soon as I can. Here is her letter dated July 16, 2009:

Hey Mom,
I just got your letter from the 11th so it takes about 5 days for me to get your letters. An yes I do just switch barracks but you will see how big the base is in September. It's bigger than Filer, maybe about Twin's size.
The boardwalk between the house and grandpa's shop sounds neat. By the way, you can just send pictures. Not too many at a time though cause I have to show my drill sargeant all of them.
Oh and Natalie, oh my goodness! In the pictures she doesn't even look like she cares! She is so accident prone it kills me.
I've really decided that I left at a really good time, since I'm not missing a thing! Well except for Isaac's soccer. You will have to send me pictures!
Tell them boys (Zane, Isaac, and Davis) to write me a letter! I miss them a lot more than I thought since I don't see them that often anyway. But now I'm forced to not see them.
By the way, Melody is right. It takes a little while to see how far you can push each drill sargeant and everything. But since I had RSP I know all the rules and everything already. RSP saved my ass by far.
I can't believe you didn't like Benjamin Button! I loved it. I haven't even heard of Bedtime Stories. Are there any more cool movies coming out? I can't even remember anymore.
How is your class going? Congrates on your 92% (I think that's what you said) that's super awesome. It has been a while since I saw a good grade like that. I was burned out last semester.
So on to my last few days. We were supposed to do the confidence course on Tuesday but it rained again. We've had to cancel a lot of training because of the rain. Rain drops here are huge!!! Like 5 drops hit your head and you can ring your hair out. Anyway, yesterday we did the confidence tower. Dun...dun...dun...we had to repel down 50 ft. Let me tell you that wall sways at the very top. But I did good. I didn't do the best but I didn't get yelled at at all. :) One male started crying on the top. The drill sargeant started screaming at him to get him lean back and he started to back off him to try a different approach type thing...well you bet your ass that male took off his rope and climbed over to the ladder and was like ok...ok..I'll get down. haha He was sooo funny.
Then today, we did the gas chamber. How bad do you think it is? It's worst. We put on the masks and go into the chamber and all your exposed skin just starts burning. Then they make you take your mask off. My eyes started gooping up and watering, my nose was just dripping, more lik running like a garden hose ha ha, my mouth was producing more saliva than imaginable. I was drooling like a freakin' dog when you hold a steak in front of him. Right before they let us out everyone was coughing. They made us talk and hold our masks above our heads. We were in there only for about 4 to 5 minutes but out of 15 of us that went in, only 7 or 8 of us stayed the whole time and didn't come out with an asthma attack, throwing up, passing out, and having to be drug out of the chamber. One of my biggest accomplishments. About 20 minutes later, I felt fine and really proud.
I got a letter from Christy today as well :). It was good to hear from her.
Tell Matt congrats on the transport of the month -- almost :).
Well they just announced lights out so I love ya'll very much.
By the way, family day is the day before graduation.
Love ya,
PV2 Johnson