Gadna

While on the 10 day break, my class and I spent 4 days in Gadna, which is an army base located in the South. This whole experience was supposed to give us an idea about what the army is like. Something that I found interesting though was the fact that everyone said that the real army was way better than this. For me the beginning was miserable, my clothes didn't fit, it was cold and my sleeping bag was really uncomfortable. But as the week went on I started to become more comfortable with everything.  I started to realize that it didn't matter if I looked ridiculous because we all did. There was this one moment on our last day when we were all eating tuna for that last time. I just remember being comfortable in my own body, which I hadn't been all week. This was a turning point for me in that it showed me that I didn't have to care if I had a hole in my pants, or if the pants were very tight in the back and very loose in the front. So if Gadna changed me in any way I think it would have to be that I shouldn't care so much and I should be more comfortable with my body.