Monday, March 07, 2005

Il postino

Today, all of a sudden I became the postman of my unit, I don't know how long this is gonna last. But it suddenly made my time here better. I will explain to you what I do in the mornings, for you to understand the big change.

1. wake at 6:15, like everyone else
2. By 8 am take breakfast, tidy up, clean up etc etc.
3. go to the secretary of the unit at 8 and prepare all outgoing mail.
4. 9:30 i am off to the city, military post office, city post office and anything else i need to do
5. 13:30 i am back in camp, classify new incoming mail etc.

The deal is that from what I saw today you barely need 2 hours for all you need to do in town during the 4 hours you spend there, if you are fast enough. Basically the rest of the 4 hours you stay in town waiting, so you can do anything as long as the patrolling military police doesn't see you anywhere :) It's good to be out of camp everyday :). Lets see how long they keep me in this post though. I hope for at least 10 days...

2 Comments:

At March 07, 2005 6:23 PM, Blogger Devrim said...

When I worked on a ship back in '94 the arrival of mail was also the biggest highlight to look forward to. This was oldschool, before email was popular. :)

 
At March 08, 2005 8:20 AM, Blogger Ying said...

and u get to be an EVEN more popular person in camp :)

 

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