I am very much not looking forward to joint phase. Are they really that anal or is it just an act? Dad says that fustration makes you tough. But are you becoming tougher, or just losing the will to fight? I have already felt once what it was like. Please not again!

My brother's getting married and I don't get to go for dinner with him. What's the point of defending your country to protect your way of life, if you have to give up your way of life to defend your country?