Personal Narrative-Country Skiing

After leaving from Devon, Leper was excited with his discovery. He had known about the war for a long time, and the draft had seriously terrified him. Last week a man had come to devon and showed cross country skiing in the army! Knowing that he was able to be drafted soon expedited his decision to join the snow troops. He even thought it might be fun. Little did Leper know that the everywhere in the army was a bloody, and dangerous place. His parents picked him up right after they listed to his decision on the phone. The car drive to Vermont was long, but it was filled with the joyous sounds of his parent’s chatter as they praised him and expected great things, and were sad by no longer having him around. After packing everything he …show more content…
There were walls around the rectangular base, with the tops covered in barbed wire. The snow covered hills in his dreams were gone. In reality, the ground was harsh and dry, with very little vegetation, and large concrete mountains protruding from the desert below. The Military base was larger than Devon, stretching for more than a mile in each direction. Knowing that this was not the snow skiing division, he asked a marine who was standing by the entrance where he should be going. All new recruits should follow the main road to get checked in, he replied. The map of the base showed the check in location, displaying that this “main road” passed by the obstacle course, and the bunks. Leper started down the road with everyone else, sure that there had been some …show more content…
Between breakfast and lunch there was combat training. Leper was never excited about it. Each day they taught him new horrifying things about the war, each day twice as bad as the last There was lunch, if you could call it that, and after a go on the obstacle course, there were MREs of dried rations for dinner. The days passed. As the boys at Devon discussed Lepers attempt to kill hitter, Leper was doing the obstacle course for the 23rd time. He wanted to give up on the army, but as everyone knows you can’t