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Comment by KC'smom on September 19, 2011 at 7:33am

My boy told me that several of them went to see Lion King 3D over the weekend. Now, I understand my son LOVES movies. But Lion King? With a bunch of Navy Sailors? How cute is that?

Comment by Tammy (Gar's mom) on September 18, 2011 at 10:47pm

My son will be out of BC and will be at DLI in a few short weeks. I've been anxious to get him out of BC so that I can correspond with him through cell phone/ email/ Facebook. I was told the other day that WiFi/ cell phone coverage and e-mail aren't allowed at DLI because of security issues. Is this correct? How do you contact your sailors at DLI (besides snail-mail).

Comment by MaddenMaiden on September 18, 2011 at 9:25pm

Monica: Cool info and I go in about exactly a month.

Can anybody help me with how to write out and address there? My sailor called(i missed it) and left a voicemail with his address but it's a strange conglomeration of numbers and buildings and rooms. Also do I need to write his name like at bootcamp lastname, firstname, middle initial. I need to overnight him his cell phone.

Comment by KC'smom on September 17, 2011 at 9:53pm

Congrats on your new sailor MaddenMaiden!!!  I know how excited you are!!!

Comment by MaddenMaiden on September 17, 2011 at 8:00pm

My husband just graduated yesterday. I saw him off at the airport and he is on a plane for Monterey right now! He told me that it doesn't matter if other people know what language they get because it is public knowledge. You can find their class schedules online!

Comment by KC'smom on September 16, 2011 at 11:40pm

I talked to my son today- he just mentioned that he has been going to the recreation room, in the alleged sound proof rooms that are apparently not so sound proof. What fun!  he got upset with me for having to explain what "muster" is. He said he has told me before.  Well excuse me for having a hundred other things on my mind including 2 young children still at home!! hahaha. I was just making converstion. He gets upset when I say "oh, that sounds like fun". I geuss this "muster" isn't all that fun. To me, everything he says sounds fun. Oh well. I have the life of a boring working mother of three. I must live vicariosly through him. hahaha.

Comment by Olivezick on September 16, 2011 at 11:18pm

Hi, all--it's so interesting to read the posts regarding some shared traits of our DLI kids! 

KC'smom--the students my son has gotten to know lean towards the fine arts and language arts, with computers thrown in there, are very intelligent (very capable of doing math, but not interested),  are "nerds" in one way or another, l-o-v-e learning, but not necessarily in the traditional way.

In my son's case, he is a very good writer, and has always loved music--playing drums, guitar, writing lyrics/music, playing in local bands in h.s. and college. He was happy to find the music rooms at the recreation hall at DLI, where I guess there are instruments, etc. students are allowed to use (I  brought his guitar to him when I visited him in July--happy boy!). And like descriptions of other DLI students in recent posts, he is a computer geek/nerd (his words)--loves to game for hours. But he also uses the internet to read, read, read, in addition to his kindle and hardback books.  Was a computer science major, at one point. Was several other majors, too--but couldn't settle on one. This is another  trait he shares with some of the  folks about his age (23) at DLI he has met--did not graduate, but has lots of college credit-- had a hard time with "traditional" learning, .

Anyway, that's what he and I were talking about the other night on the phone. Again, I don't mean to say all CTI students share these traits--just some of the people he has gotten to know. He is so, so , so happy to be at DLI--he is thriving (at least he sounds like it!) in this environment. 

Comment by KC'smom on September 16, 2011 at 4:29pm

Yup, screaming w/ lips pressed right up to the microphone. Once during a concert he jumped up onto the rafters on the ceiling and was hanging upside down while singing (screaming). When the special agents (or FBI??) came to do security questioning with our neighbor they asked him "do you know what his hobbies are" Old manDave across the street  says," I think he's in a band."  Special agent says "oh? what kind of music does he play?" Old man Dave says "I really don't know but I tell ya, I sure as hell would never listen to it" hahaahaaa.  Other than when he is playing music my boy is a quiet book reading, sight seeing nerd.

Comment by KC'smom on September 16, 2011 at 3:40pm

my nerd has been in a thrash metal band since he was 16. He's a totally different person when he is on the stage. He was lead guitar and when the singer left for a while he did vocals too. His vocals were terrible.  I've been hoping he would meet up with some musicians at the DLI.

Comment by KC'smom on September 16, 2011 at 7:49am

So Monica- you have raised the 2 biggest nerds in the Navy?? hahahaha. Good for you. You must be so proud!!!  How far into the school is your daughter?

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