Iwakuni Part II

My sister IM'd me last night. It was a brief conversation but she started by saying I was brave to be responsible for her daughter Alex, for the weekend of the concert. Without going into alot of details for public consumption....

I told her that I take each individual on my own analysis. Just because she can't get along with her it's not going to change my views on her. But of course she doesn't listen to me and is set in her ways. She expects her daughters to act like her but doesn't take into account they are individuals and if they don't think like you there isn't always a "fix" for them. I think that is what it boils down to in the end. I'm no psycologist but that's my assessment.

Iwakuni:

Hopefully I don't mix my two trips to Iwakuni. I'm trying to mentally seperate the two trips but it's hard after all these years. I do know that I spent time on mess duty on both trips. But this time, aside from the early rise, it wasn't as bad as boot camp. It put a crimp into going out due to the early start but that's about it.

During our time in Iwakuni we would have mini-deployments to other countries. Our first trip was to Osan, Korea. I immediatly fell in love with the place. I went out to the bars every single night. The women were nice to me and I actually hooked up with an older lady there. She was in her mid 30's and I was 21. I asked her to dance one night at a bar. She was to old to be a drinky girl but she still worked for a bar. Anyway we hit it off, she taught me to dance that night and I've loved dancing ever since then. She did have a slutty, ugly, sidekick and the two of them hung out together to protect each other. I found myself trying to follow her conversations with her friend as they spoke in korean. I think I spooked her because she asked me once if I knew Korean. I think you can get the jist of a conversation without knowing the details if you watch people. One of the nights we hung out her friend hooked up with an air force guy. Well the girl I was with didn't want to leave her friend alone with him. So I agreed to accompany them up to the hotel room he paid for. So there we are the four of us in one bed. Well this didn't stop the guy from getting what he paid for right next to us :P Apparently he couldn't concentrate and finished the deed in the bathroom with the girl. I found it ammusing that the guy who paid for the room was forced to do this. I never had sex with her during our brief time together, on the first trip to Korea. I left korea never expecting to see her again.

The city right outside of the base was filled with about 6 streets lined with merchants and bars. The merchants had good deals on everything from leather jackets, to pirated software, to other clothing. My girl there ended up buying me a jacket that was hand stitched with some graphics. I also bought me some software while I was there. You even got a nice copy of the manual to go with it. The bars mostly had a stage for the girls working there to take turns and dance solo in a bathing suit. A dance floor for the public was also available. When they weren't dancing they would circulate the bar and try to get you to buy them a juicy. So they are labeled "Juicy Girls". The beer of choice over there was "OB Beer" and the liquor of choice was Soju. Both of these were cheep and cost about 2500 Won. As opposed to the juicy girls drinks which cost you 15000 Won. Needless to say it's hard to get tired of this stuff, especially when the girls check you out whenever you walk in the place. I'm not exactly used to that.

When Korea was done we briefly went back to Iwakuni for a break but we knew where we would be heading next. We would be heading to Kadena AFB, Okinawa.

To be continued.... {I have to get back to work}