I was nervous at first because all I could think of was the movie along came polly where jennifer took ben stiller to the indian place and his stomach got upset and he had the shits real bad. Well so far I'm good. No crazy sweating or upset stomach or running to the bathroom. Which is good right now because there's no shiters on the highway. That would suck. Will and I were deciding to go to legoland but they only give military 10% off. And the ticket was 65 dollars. That's way to much money right now. Maybe next time. So now we are heading back to yuma. I have work in the morning and I gotta drive his ass back to phoenix tomorrow night. Cali was fun and definitly cooler in temperature n a thought of some day moving there. But the prices of life living here might be to high.

That was about a half hour ride to their base and a half hour ride to sea world. We go to sea world around 7ish. N got in for free for being military. That was awesome. We saw shamu and the sea lion show. It was fun to hang out with some friends we haven't seen in awhile. We dropped them back off to base because they both had to work at 3pm Sunday. Will and I crashed out again at our hotel. We have just gotten so tired due to the traveling and nonstop going. Sunday (today) we got up around 1130 and were gonna go to the downtown pancake resturant in san diego. We found it easily but there was a huge ass line out the door. So no pancakes for us. We parked and found a uso which is really weird to find in the middle of the city. They gave us a few ideas of where to eat. 4th street is the st wit all the food and shops on it. We were gonna go to the hard rock cafe. But instead we stopped at this indian resturant. I never had indian food so I had to try it.

Will and I are now on our way back to yuma from san diego. We had a blast. I picked him up on Thursday in phoenix. That ride was crazy long. Almost three hours. And prior to that I had to go into work at 0600 and I left later than planned at 730. I was late picking him up but that was ok. We went back to base and got a hotel room and crashed out. Friday we hung out with a cpl and sgt from my shop. We chilled around for a bit and then around 11pm to 12 we headed to a strip club. A full nude one. My first strip club ever. It was quite interesting. One of the girls there asked me to apply for a job. Haha... well my sgt said id get in to some trouble if someone caught me there... I don't think that will be a career choice any time soon. Saturday we were behind schedual to drive to san diego. We had a few errands to run before leaving town. We didn't get to san diego until about 4ish. Then we had to head to camp pendleton to pick up our friends trejo and pintor.

So here's the car I am currently on my way to go look at. Its an 2005 mitsubishi lancer ralliart. It was owned by one person and he's an older gentleman so it should be in perfect condition. I'm so excited to go look at this car. I fell in love with it the minute I saw it. So hopefully ill come home with it.

24 hour post

so here i am on duty at the squadron on the lovely friday afternoon. i have about 20 more hours to go until my weekend starts. but i will most likely be sleeping my weekend away. theres not much to do here in az anyways so im not missing out on much anyways.
I bet you are all wondering what I've been up to for that last three weeks that I've been here. Well here's the scoop

I flew out of manchester on june 24 at 525 in the morning. There was like 3 stop overs and it took me 12 hrs to get to yuma. I was going nuts. And the flight into phoenix and yuma sucked so bad bc of the mountains so there was so much terbuliance and I was getting sick to my stomach. And the flying caused my ears to be blocked for over a week it sucked.

Well we got here and checked in on june 25 with my temp squadron vma 513. It took us about 2 weeks to check in everywhere. We had to get our gear and put in travel claims and get meal cards.. the whole 9 yards that most of u wouldn't understand what I am talking about.

After all the checking in I started working with my shop doing my job. And its actually not as bad as I thought. I've been jacking up aircrafts servicing them taking off panels and for the last week I've been painting. So my hours have changed instead of going into work at 630 am to 5pm I was in at 2 am to about 630am. But I haven't been getting much sleep before or after... my sleep schedual got all messed up. N my roommate kept waking me up at 11 when she'd come in the room during her chow breaks.

On wed I had the gas chamber... not as bad as I thought it was just long classes that were boring and tiring... and it was so hot outside and we were dressed in full MOPP gear. Which is a suit that protects ur skin from poisionous vapors or liquids. And its really hot wearing it to walk all the way down to the chamber. It was fun..

Thrusday when I went into work at two in the morning I did something for the first time.. it was like 300am and my corporal asked me if I have ever tried dip before. I have but the pouch did not the realy stuff and I didnt like it then. But I tried the real stuff to try something new. Mint flavor. Well let's just say its pretty nasty and I won't be doing that n e time soon. It made me so dizzy and kinda gave me an upset stomach. So that lasted all but 5 to 10 minutes. My two corporals got a kick outta it. It was an interesting eperience.

Well right now I'm on duty trying not to drive myself completely crazy. All I do is sit here and answer the phone and look pretty. Not a bad job. It would be better if it was Thursday instead bc I would have Friday off and a long ass weekend but I'm not that luck :-(.

But so far yuma is not that bad. I've been meeting a lot of interesting ppl both at work and at my barracks. Everyone no matter their rank is pretty chill. U have ur few assholes but what place doesn't. Like I said there's not much to do here and unless u go about 2 to 3 hours away to san diego or phoenix. And right now I don't have a car so there's really not muh I can do.

But on the other hand some really exciting news is that my boyfriend william will be here on the 23 which is a Thursday I believe. I can't wait bc its been over a month since I've seen him. OH n some more big news that I found out about two weeks ago. The squadron that I'm originally in (vma 211) will be deploying in april 2010 to afgahastan. I'm am totally excited and hopefully ill be able to go. Ill be banking when I come back. Ill def post some updates on here if I get anymore info.

Well that's all I have for now. If there's n e thing else ill post again. N I kno I really need to get ontop of this blogging thing but I'm currently with out internet n a computer. So I'm trying my best.

My address:

Pfc nicole giallongo
Po box 91827
Yuma, az 85369-1827

It will be nice to hear from anyone lol

First Entry

Here it is, my first entry on a blog.

i wanted to do this awhile now but just forgot about it and really didnt have the time. its gonna be all about my life now in the marine corps so people can understand what it is like to be a marine. i was planning on writing right after bootcamp but i only had ten days and blogging was not on my mind. school has been preoccupying me so of course there was no time to blog then either. well i am out of school now finally so i have plenty of time to blog for now i think.

ill be hitting the fleet (my job) soon and from what i am told it is a 12 on 12 off job that i will have. there might be some encouraging from others to get me to come on here and update. there will be for sure. rachael (step mother) will most likely tell me to get on and blog because she is a bi time blogger herself and im sure she would love to know what i am up to.

i would love to tell you all what has happened to me in the past year but that would take me probably my whole leave to do that. so i can just recap a bit and if you want the details later let me know and i will write some up i guess. oh and if my military lingo is to much for you let me know and i will translate in civilian language for you lol.

here goes.. my last year in a glimpse:

July 7 to oct 3- i was at bootcamp on parris island, sc. it was hot most of the time i was there.. and pretty intense for the most part. i was separated from family, friends, my boyfriend at the time, my beloved cell phone and computer. it was a hard transition but obviously i made it through. leaving for the marine corps did change quite a bit in my life during these three months. i came home to a cheating boyfriend.. that was awesome.. and to friends that just didnt understand my new life style but thats ok. my family was very supportive... and YES i did dumb that nasty thing as soon as i got home.

oct14 to nov12- i was at mct (marine combat training) in camp geiger jacksonville, nc where again i was separated from any contact with the outside world for a month. there i learned how to shoot different guns and some combat training. and we got to be with the males finally. one thing that has surprised me most about the marine corps is that they are all about learning and knowledge.. it was classes after classes and i dont think i have ever slept as much in class in the corps then i did in high school. it was ridiculous..

Nov12-end of march- i had a a 14 hour bus ride from nc to pensacola fl. here is where i started my first part of training for my mos (my job in the corps). the class was about a month or more longer but it took forever for me to start classes here.. there was so many of us in my job (airframer). but here in pensacola is where i had a great time. i met new people from all over the place i wont forget. school here was hard. i ended up failing in one of my classes and was set back two weeks to pick up with another class. it was a disappointment for me when i found out my original class got the choice of aircraft that i wanted. but by far the best part of pcola was meeting my now boyfriend william knapp.. i had my eye on him the beginning i got there but thought he was totally outta my league. but in january we started talking and things progressed from there.. a little rocky at first but got better once we were out of pcola.. (that will be mentioned later) lets just say another female was in the way.. and that was the cause of all the problems. but anyways pcola was a time i will never forget.

end of march till june 9- well i graduated from pcola finally and chose the AV8-B harrier as my choice of aircraft to work on and it wasnt the wisest of choices but what everyone knows is i chose it for the place the school was located not the aircraft itself. william was sent to nc to go to school on his v-22 osprey aircraft a month before i graduated. and well my school for the harrier just so happened to be there in nc. so you see how my decision was made? and i dont regret it one bit. anyways... i started my 10 week course on my specific aircraft april 1 in MCAS cherry point nc and graduated june 3.. about 6 weeks in we were told where we will be stationed.. and well william is permanently stationed an hour from cherry point in new river, jacksonville, nc. so you all know nc was where i was hoping to be placed. well for my craft theres two places i can go... nc or az.. and where am i headed to....az... and believe me i was not a happy camper when i found this out. and telling william was the last thing i wanted to do. but i did. sooner, way sooner than i thought i would have. and he took it better than i thought. (this is where i am now mentioning what i said i would in the paragraph above) thats because his feelings changed for me completely since pcola.. he feel in love with me of course.. and he decided we will stick this out. while in nc i spent every weekend i possibly could with him.. and a week of my leave before i left to come home. let me tell you, its hard leaving him behind because im scared that things might change.. but i can only hope for the best. but besides making my relationship better i also met some awesome people while in nc.. from my student barracks at cherry point to williams fellow marines in his squadron. so many memories.

june 9 to current- well here i am right now sitting in nh at home in lovely sandown where i will be until the 24 of june when ill be off to hot ass yuma. im looking forward to a new experience of living on the west coast, meeting new people, and actually starting my career... and im not gonna lie im scared to see what the fleet is like. i have a hard job and long hours and heat to work in.. so my entries should be quite interesting. but right now my focus is on being home hanging out with the family and seeing close friends for the next two weeks. so i will blog when i get down to yuma..

oh and here is some pictures of the aircraft i work on and the one william works on so you all get an idea of what we work on..



this right here is the harrier.. it is the only aircraft that can hover. and what i am working on. it is ugly and a pain in the ass and i will have to learn to love it.



here is the v-22 osprey that william works on. it is quite dangerous as it tends to fall out of the sky very often.