In Grade School my favorite subjects were art & geography & to a lesser degree religion. I now think that as a kid I was obsessed with the ritual of the Catholic sevice...when I got older it must have worn off. (I get the geography & history from my dad & I suppose the art from my mom. She used to be a very good painter...).
When I started High School I decided to become a writer or a painter or both. I wasn't particularly good in school but outside of school I liked to play soccer which I wasn't particularly good at either. My sophmore year I score one memorable goal on the JV team. My junior year of High School I left the US for the first time and went to Spain as an exchange student. I lived with a very nice family in Valladolid and discovered that the best way to learn a foreign language is to spend a year or so in another country with a group of people who don't understand a single thing you say...
When I got back from Spain I repeated my junior year of High School and then went straight to college.
After one year there I quit and went full time at my job as a security guard. On the long lonely nights at LaChoy Foods I started my first (still unfinished) autobiographical novel. After two years I decided I did not want to be a security guard forever and just about that time the Army called and asked if I was interested. At first I told them no but then finally I changed my mind and decided to join the Army to travel the world & improve myself. My introduction to the Army was in Basic Training at the 1/38 Infantry Regiment Ft Benning, Georgia. After I learned how to shoot the M16A2 assault rifle and use other weapons like the AT4 anti tank rocket I was sent to Ft Gordon, GA to get further training as a Communications Technician. After I finished all my training there I was assigned to my first unit. My first duty station was Camp Humphreys, Korea, where I still am right now. I have less than a year left in the Army now so I am starting to think about what I will do once I am finally done...I would like to travel for awhile and then maybe try to get a civilian job over here.