Counting Bodies Like Sheep

This weekend I travelled to Kenora for testing and interviews with the Canadian Forces. The weekend went sort of like this.

15:15 - Departure from RRHS to home.
15:25 - Arrival home, followed by final gear check and loading.
15:45 - Departure from home to Kenora
18:31 - Arrival at 116th Independant Field Battery Armory

For the next hour or so a bunch of us military hopefuls sat around in mess and bullshited. You tell that everyone in the room was restless. Even Bdr. Scott couldn't really sit still. He was always sitting down for no more then 15 seconds, stand up look around or walk outside, come back and sit down again. He did that alot while we waited for our only test of the day. This test being one of the most important, the apptitude test.

19:23 - CFAT (Canadian Forces Apptitude Test)

This test consisted of three sections;

• Verbal Skills (15 questions, 5 minutes)
• Spatal Ability (15 questions, 15 minutes)
• Problem Solving (30 questions, 30 minutes)

After the test we sat around in the room and waited. After about 15 minutes of talking to the other test persons, we received re-embersments (money for food). I recieved $32.62. The time frame get's sort of shadie after that. Anyways we went down into the mess and watched TV. In their mess they have a HUGE tv. Over 60'' i think. Sitting beside this massive tele, on either side was 2 massive speakers. They were fucking taller then me, and they thumped. We ordered a few pizza's, we chipped in $5 each. So I had an easy $27.62 sitting on my pocket. We also rented movies and watched Blade Trinity, the speakers were knocking shit off the walls. Knowing it would happen, the army guys removed the expensive pictures prior to movie watching. Lights out is at 23:00, this is when you are allowed to go to bed. No one did, we stayed up watching movies till about 01:30.

06:00 - Wake up call.
07:00 - Breakfast
08:00 - Testing and Interviews

I left the Armories at about 11:45 and Bdr. Scott dropped me off at Jeremy Thompsons for an surprise visit. The jist of the rest of the weekend is me and JT hung out and went to the movies on saturday. Then I came home today.