Blogs from Coronado, San Diego, California, United States, North America - page 3

Hi from Beautiful San Diego, It's 9:00 pm and we need to be on the bus at 5:15 am so this is going to be a quick note. It was another great day with the Marines. We spent the morning at the Marine Corp Air Station at Mirarmar to see first hand Marines at work after basic training. Most amazing was the opportunity to visit the flight line and see the fighter jets and helicopters up close. The jets were taking off for exercises not far from where we were standing. Again it was amazing to hear about all of the educational opportunites afforded to these young people and their extended families. The Marine program pushes its members to get as much education as possible. This afternoon we visited the Marine Corp museum at the training ... read more

Hello from Beautiful San Diego, This week I will be attending a workshop for high school educators at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. There are teachers, counselors and administrators from Las Vegas, So. Calif., Hawaii and Guam in attendance. All of the Marines we have met thus far have been incredibly nice, very fit people. (My room mate noted you could cut bread with their hip bones) I will be trying to give you some info on the Marines as I learn about the program myself. So far I have arrived at my Squad Bay (Living quarters at Half Moon Inn on the Bay), and got squared away (unpacked my bags) and enjoyed the talents from the galley (kitchen). Tomorrow we meet at 7 am to take a bus to the training depot. ... read more

Monday 11th Aug (pictures to follow) I woke up early and started planning the days activities while Gra had a lye in. I set up surfing at Mission Beach followed by a Kayak and snorkel tour in La Jolla. So we hired our surf boards and attempted to look like we knew what we were doing. After Gra had a few attempts to get on the board he invented his own style of mooning knee surfing!!! very talented I thought, We both struggled to get on the boards with any grace at all and were exhausted after an hour. Gra realised his shorts were way too loose to master the sport of surfing in one hour, so we planned to try it again another day. It was on to La Jolla next, but when we got ... read more