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So, remember that post a while back where I talked about how my First Sergeant has a countdown on his office wall of how many days we have left? The other day, he held a formation for the company. He told us that we had 199 days left and to celebrate, he burned the "2" from the 200's. I thought that was pretty cool. In a couple of weeks, I'll be halfway done! It already feels like I have been here for a whole year!!


Yesterday was my day off. I relaxed for the most part, volunteered for a couple of hours at the hospital, and watched a movie on my laptop (CopyCat). Mark is going home for R&R in 2 days(!). I'll miss him, but I am really happy that he is getting the chance to go home.

We are getting into the beginning of the "rainy" season here in Iraq. The average yearly rainfall is like 5 inches or something, but the soil over here is weird. So when it does rain, the water just sits there. I heard we can get flooded pretty quickly. It is also cooling off a bit more, which is a good thing, but also means there will be more bugs coming out. Someone in my unit has already gotten leishmaniasis from a sandfly bite. I have been noticing a lot more mosquitos around here, as well.