First impressions from Lamia...

For the third time i got transferred to this camp. The first one was for training as a new recruit, the second one for training as a sergeant, this one now is for good, my second transfer and last one. So my border part is now over and I will be stationed in Lamia till November.

This is extremely cool as Lamia is where my parents' place is located. My job in camp is not to guard, patrol or anything like this anymore, as there are plenty of other people who do these things. I work in an office, and thus get to stay at home most of the days of the week. So, say for 2 out of every 7 days I get to stay in camp at night, for the rest I exit camp in the afternoon and re-enter at 6 am. It's a fairly good deal.

On the rest, the guys in the room are pretty cool people and there's more people coming along, most of whom I happen to have met in the past.

My status now is more or less like having a regulary job, with some minor differences:

• I can't leave before November 8th
• I have to wake up at 5:30 every morning to be on time
• I don't get paid
• I don't like it

which more or less doesn't make it regular at all. But compared to my whole border experience it's light years ahead and better. The upside of this all is that the people I deal with are polite and treat you in a civilised manner, I know a lot of people in this camp, I am in my hometown, I have a lot of spare time, which can help me finish university on time and get a job or start some serious job hunting july onwards...Ain't that cool? :-)

I also applied for the permit for going abroad, to the Netherlands in July. Lets see if it's gonna come through. Unfortunately I didn't ask for the permit for Turkey, cos everyone I asked told me i will get both of them rejected in case i do ask...So I won't be present at Evrim's wedding, which is the only bad news of the last few days.

spirit in general is very high, mood improving every day :)