[Lindale]

ROTC double training overnight. It's bad enough that they made us run around one of the Philippines' largest universities without warm-ups in less than three hours, but they just had to make us run fast under horrible monsoon rains, having us drenched to our very souls. After a tiring day, they just had to drag us out at three in the morning, after a two-hour "sleep", force us back to our soaking wet fatigues and squishy wet boots, and have us "escape" from the top floor of a building, through the tall wet grasses and foliage, out to a place we almost could never have reached without a map. Not to mention the disgusting tradition of boodle fights: The officers had much viand--tuna chunks--on their end of the table, leaving us lower classes burnt rice and shreds of tuna.

Why did I take ROTC in the first place?