Have not been blogging for the past few months...Since i enlisted, there is nothing much to talk about....
Because everyday it's the same stuff over and over again...
But now i have one thing i wanna say,
Which is....
POP LO!!
I have lots to say,
Which i think i will be writing a long long essay...
I think i will start with the drill squad...
Drill squad people are chosen by calling up people who were in uniform group before...
And so i was also included inside...
when the 1st time we were called up, there was around 49men...
And later on, training begin to start...
We began to do the basic drills during our free time.. (called by the platoon sergeant)
Lots of people started to get sick of draining their own free time for the practice...
After that the training stopped as more high key events are coming up...
And after those events are over, the training started again...
This time round, people start to disappear....
When the drill squad were told to fall in, people pretend that they are not from drill squad...
They just sit inside the platoon and keep quiet...
Well, though i don't like to burn my admin time, i did not back out of the training...
Things got more interesting when they started teaching on the fancy drills....
We did the wave once and find that the effect was pretty good...
Though there are a series of moves involve, we get the hang of it in a while...
We were called out during our free time to train quite often and we were all getting tired of it...
And just one weekend before the competition, the platoon sergeant got pissed off and walk away suddenly...
He called us later on and talk to us for awhile, saying that we are one of the worst batch...
since all were thinking of going back to rest than practice as the competition is drawing near...
He say to just give in our best and try it out... To see if got a chance...
On the actual day, the drills was finally pieces together and we learn on the spot...
So many parts we were not really clear...
And during the actually thing, we did messed it up...
Basic drills are not as good, so what we can do is depends on our fancy drills....
Together with zulu and yankee, we compete on the same place in rocky hill(our camp)
Zulu drills was so so, but yankee was really good...
When it came to fancy drills, they really beat us to it...
Lots of nice moves came out and all... But something bad happened...
During a rifle exchanging move(by throwing), someone dropped the rifle...
But all others were really nice....
So we feel that we don't stand a chance... (but we were glad .. lol)
And a few days later, we were told that we have good news...
That our drill squad got into top 3!!
We were happy and sad at the same time as that will be means more training...
And also, the School Sergeant Major (SSM) personally email our Company Sergeant Major(CSM)
That he wanted our drill squad to perform on our graduation parade(GP)...
We were really shocked, and at the same time mentally prepared to do more training...
During the training, the platoon sergeant knocked us down,
saying that we are treating the training like nothing... and he told us off...
I think that knock in some sense in most of the people, and they started training hard....
New moves added in here and then.... and soon we went for the finally competition for the championship...
The championship battle is between us, dragon and eagle....
We started on our competition right after our GPR( Graduation Parade Rehearsal)
and when we are about to start our fancy drills, it started to rain....
During our fancy drills , we could hear lots of cheering and clapping for us....
even so, the rain got heavier and heavier...
What's lucky is that we manage to complete it before the freaking heavy downpour...
And when we got back to where our company are, we were welcome by applause and screaming!
That feeling is like returning back home after a winning war, to be cheered on by so many people..
results were out on monday at the CO parade, that Quebec once again for a champion for Drill squad!!
Hard work paid off, yet another things that really feels good...
i'll leave the rest for tomorrow...
Got really tired after the GP today...
More on GP day tomorrow...
CHEERS!!
