Our Soldier

The last two weeks for Nic have been pretty boring. He arrived in South Korea at a bad time because of the holiday and ended up stuck in limbo until today. He has been extremely bored and is still struggling to get used to the time change. He is 15 hours ahead of us and Nic came up with an easy way for us to figure out his time. Add 3 hours to our time and change the am/pm. This works great unless you are close to noon or midnight then its a little confusing. Luckily, I am able to set two time zones on my phone.

He has been on Youngsan Army Base in Seoul since Sunday, August 30. He moved to Camp K16, where he is assigned on Thursday, September 10. He called me at 5:30 pm, Thursday night, which was 2:30 am for me. Hayden was watching a movie and I was knitting so it worked out great!

Here are some things Nic had to say:

He is EXTREMELY glad to finally get to his camp and be able to unpack and move in. He took 2 large duffle bags with him and hasn't wanted to unpack them.

A Sgt and PVT picked him up from Youngsan to take him to Camp K16. On the way out of Seoul Nic was amazed at the amount of "stuff" they fit in an area. He said everything is stacked and crammed into every single inch. Seoul is the largest city in the world with approximately 10,231,000 people (New York is the 11th largest with 8 million). Right in the middle of several lanes of traffic a "little cycle dude" was pushing a cart, going the wrong way and no one seemed to care.

Nic's camp is one street wide and he said "I moved to corinne! I can't leave base for thirty days...so its like being in Corinne and can't leave for thirty days! I am going to lose my mind!" ...and we laughed.

Then Nic got to his room....

He shares this tiny room with a soldier named Kaung (pronounced Kong). He is a Katusa, a Korean that serves in the US military. (Kong the Korean Katusa....we both laughed so hard!) Nic's is the left side. He said if he puts his feet to the side of the bed he is afraid his boots will get stuck.

The thing he is most excited about is he will be assigned to his own Hemtt wrecker.

They also have a soccer league Nic is going to play for. His room mate plays on it so they are off to a good start.

Alex ended up on the other end of South Korea from Nic on Camp Walker. Hopefully on long weekends they will be able to get together. We had hoped they'd be closer but at least they are within a few hours.

Nic puts lots of really great pictures on Facebook. Look him up and have him add you to his friends list. This blog won't let me add a lot of pictures so you will want to look at his. He is getting back into photography and bought a really nice camera so we are looking forward to seeing his new adventure through the lense.

Keep him in your prayers, along with all our brave soldiers.