DONE

Greetings friends,

Just wanted to let you all know I am done with my basic training for the military. A time to reflect.

Reflections on Basic Combat Training:
- Overall, very good experience
- I learned a lot about myself
- I learned a lot about others with different backgrounds
- I value patience a lot more
- Things such as social media take up way too much of our time
- life is peaceful without a cellphone (yes even in the midst of basic)
- writing letters is a lost art and is something we should all do more often, it is so nice to receive letters
- everyone needs to give 110% all of the time no matter what
- listening is the best way to learn, not talking...
- I could go on and on...

Reflections on Basic Music Course:
- playing music is liberating
- the scary/busy way of life came back little by little
- It was nice to be treated as a human being again
- having fun is the key to everything

There is much more I learned but the most important is being optimistic. You have to have a positive attitude. If you do that, things go by faster and easier. Not only that, you have fun! Yes you can have fun low crawling with a heavy sandbag going the distance of 3-4 volleyball fields one way. hehe

I am glad to be back... This Summer 2009 blog is now retired.

Take Care and thanks for reading!

Daniel

One Week Left

What else is there to say?


HOOOAHHHH

One Week Down

Greetings friends,

So one week of training is done with at the USA School of Music. How wonderful it is. A recap:

- I play drums everyday
- My chops are coming back and are getting stronger
- I am really diggin on Steve Gadd
- I bought an iPod Touch and I can listen to my music again!

Ok... only one bad thing, I hit muscle failure on my PT test for situps, therefore not passing it. However I am quite confident I could pass it this instant. As I reflected over why I didn't pass, I realized my bad technique. I am going to have my roomate hold my feet for two minutes tonight and I bet I get close to 70 and I only needed 53 to pass... maybe next time I will simply take my time and think before I take the test, absolutely ridiculous. However the good thing is I am doing my mandatory PT, which I was going to do anyway... so my days are filled with workouts and music. This is the life!

Daniel Heier

PFC Heier, Daniel D
USASOM Class 005
1420 Gator Blvd
Norfolk, VA 23521