Almost April..

Well, its almost April. Spring in Kyrgyzstan is very fickle. It snowed six inches the other day, then was 65 the next. Its actually quite a beautiful country when the grass starts to grow and things turn green. I really wish I could explore more here. Everyday we fly over this huge mountain range, (I think its the northern end of the himalayas actually), and there is one road that twists and turns its way from the valley of green all the way up and over to a basin still covered in the white blanket of winter. Its so foreign to see just one road cutting its way for miles through the white snow. It goes north up to another town which is only visible when we fly at night. I wonder what life is like in these little towns that sit 30,000 ft below me. Is growing up there anything like in America? Do they have awkward highschool years and do they dream about seeing the world? I would love to get a car and just drive around to see what its like at 3:00 on a thursday. Oh well maybe someday.

Life here on Manas is good. Lots of flying still. There's a lot of talk about what we will do for the second half in terms of location. They want to mix up the crews to avoid complacency so I will probably be moving. Hopefully to turkey. Keep your fingers crossed. haha. Operation "get huge" is going pretty well. Still hitting one or two protein shakes a day, but the cookies at the chow hall have slowly worked their way into my diet which cant help. Gotta re-steele myself, after all, its only month two!

The new-ness is definitely starting to wear off. I'm enjoying it still, because I worked so long to get here, but I am definitely starting to look at this life from a more objective perspective. No conclusions yet, I'm just beginning to see it as a job more and am trying to see what direction I want to go with it. Otherwise, I do love flying, and think I will be a pretty decent A/C...someday.