Boot Camp start
It’s Sunday and I feel restless. I keep walking back and forth in my flat moving furniture and multitasking house chores. I think I am tense about next week and a little apprehensive about the summer too.
Our media team is spending Monday and Tuesday in the archipelago this week. The idea is to have fun together and stay in cabins on an island. I’m not nervous about that. I know we’ll have a great time sailing and making BBQ dinner.
However, straight after, I’m off to Boot Camp near Stockholm.
Why? Well, I currently lack the type of soldier knowledge you get after attending a year in what used to be known as our ‘National Military Service’. It doesn’t exist anymore, so Sweden will start recruiting and hiring soldiers very soon.
Anyways – as a result of not attending the National Service – from Wednesday 25 May, I will spend five intense weeks in Boot Camp; getting my civilian self kicked into soldier shape. The sixth week will be spent at a Psychological Operations course near Malmö in the south.
I have no idea how I will feel after the next six weeks or what I will be capable of doing – physically and mentally – once my summer holiday start. There so many things I’d like to plan now, but will I feel the same once my vacation start?
My challenge is to chill and take time as it comes.
Lycka till på utbildningen. Den är rolig, du kommer att gilla den. Jag kommer och säger hej snart :).
