Today was such a loooooooong day. Woke up at 0720 for first parade which was supposed to be at 0745. Turned on my 3G first before brushing teeth, as usual, and to my wonderful surprise, Ridhwan messaged me saying that first parad was pushed forward to 0730. That left me 10minutes to brush teeth and change up and get all ready for the day. I rushed and manager to be down and ready for first parade at 0729. Awesome timing.
Since it was their first time having first parade (it was their second day here), I was tasked to teach them how first parade would be carried out. We were able to get it all done by 0750. We headed over to the medical centre for their hepB screening, meaning that all of that were required to have their blood drawn. It was kinda crazy because nobody knew what to do. And with it being their second day here only, it was difficult to control 71 people. Our platoon usually was only 50-odd people, but now it's about 1.5 times larger. It was definitely a challenge but it all turned out alright.
We headed over to the medical centre and I told them that we were here for the screening. I got directed to the right people and so everything began. The medical centre was now using a new documentation platform and so there were a lot of things that couldn't be done as they usually were, which caused us to wait for 1hr 20mins in an adjacent training shed. I took the opportunity to talk to the course during that period to get to know them and to answer their many questions. It took them a while to get warm and comfortable with me, but soon they began to open up. Questions came free and easy soon after.
We only started the drawing of blood for the course at 0920. However, we had a lecture that was due to begin at 1000. I had to message different people to see if the lecture could be pushed further back, and eventually succeeded (I mean, they couldn't say no anyway). After a few more hiccups, we were finally able to get the course to be at the lecture room at 1050. The lecturer wasn't that quite pleased (even though he was informed) but I couldn't blame him. Nobody likes a imperfect plan.
He started the lesson with a broad overview. Like, REALLY REALLY broad. So broad that it wasn't even part of the lecture AT ALL. Okay can. He spent a good 10minutes on that. He did say that we were an hour behind time (yes we were) and so he would need to squeeze his lesson a bit. With that in mind, I kept a watchful eye on the time. He stopped his lesson a little after the time that he was supposed to stop, aka 1530.
Once he was done, we headed straight for the guard house. We were going to attend the guard brief first to orientate the course about the vicinity and what to look out for when doing guard duty. We had a briefing in the hot sun (but didn't bother because we're all soldiers) (cheyyyyyyy) and then were handed over to the troopers for their orientation route.
Once that was done, they went back ip to their bunk for their orientation run of the whole camp. They visited places and ran together. I was the safety officer, so even though I was prepared to run, I couldn't. Oh well. Sit and chill.
Dinner, then close the day.
BUT.
We spent the whole night (yeap, I only stepped back into bunk at 9pm) giving out their medic bags and doing some documentation.
It was a long night.
I didn't have difficulty waking up the next day but I was tired through and through.
Shag life.
What's worse, there's so much on my mind.
When Wednesday comes...
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