I missed the 8 PM showing of the Tiger Crusie, but I caught the 9:30 PM encore presentation of it. It was a really good movie, and a tear-jerker. I thought that Joey and Maddie looked so cute together. She acted like his big sister, even though for the movie they weren't related. But, off-screen that is her little brother.
I can't remember the name of the base at the beginning of the movie ( I think it's called North Valley Naval Air Station or something like that), but when I was at the San Diego Job Corps Center down in Imperial Beach, I did some work experience there for about a month and a half or so. It was very fun, I worked inside though, nothing to do with outside.
The Job Corps was 2 to 3 miles from the Mexico border. On the weekends, most of the 18+ year old JC students would go down to TJ to drink or do whatever. I personally went down there a couple times myself. The first time I didn't have any fun at all. First off, when we (my "boyfriend", his friend, and I) were going down the incline to get into TJ, I lost my footing and slipped down the incline, spraining my ankle. Then, when we were at Club X (the club that most of the JC students went), my "boyfriend"'s friend had gotten so drunk and obnoxious that we got kicked out of the club, and we had to go back to Job Corps. When we got close to the Center, we realized that it was already 2:15 which meant that we weren't aloud back until 6 AM. We called my "boyfriend"'s dad and we spent the night at his house, then he dropped us of at the Center at 6 AM and his friend was still drunk. He got into big trouble. The 2nd time I went, it was a little better. A bunch of us, 8 or 9, got together and went down there. I had a couple of drinks and got sick to my stomach, so a couple of the other girls and I went to the hotel that the boys had rented and slept until they got there. Then I could go back to sleep. The girls and I talked in one room while the boys were being noisy in the other.
There were a few time's while I was at Job Corps, that it wasn't any fun at all. Like one time in March of 1998 (I was there from 2/28/98 to 7/27/99) we were all on our dorms it was 6:45 on a tuesday evening (and on tuesday's all the student's have to be on their dorms for a center wide meeting, held on each floor. During this meeting, the Resident Advisor and the Student Counselor's discuss what's going to be happening on the floor or in the center in the next month, that sort of stuff. After the meetings are done at 8:00, we go in and clean the bathrooms, it's fun because what they did on some dorms was they got the entire floor soaked with water and put soap - sort of like dishwashing soap- on the floor and each student takes turns slipping in there and cleaning a section of the floor at a time). At that time, 6:45, a military police officer with a big gun ( i think it was a machine gun) comes on our dorm floor and orders everyone outside to the parking lot at the front of the center, but they wouldn't tell us why. At aprroximately 8:15, the security cadets come back from a job they were working, and they see the whole center standing in the parking lot. So of course, they are told by the Security officers, that they have to join us. The security officers aren't telling us what's going on either, and they know something. Finally, at 10:30, after nearly 4 hours of just standing out there not knowing what was going on, all the military police and their dogs that had been on the center, came out to the parking lot and told us that the coast was clear and that we may return to our dorms. But before that happened, one of the RA's from another dorm, asked what had happened, and one of the MP's responded that at approximately 6:00 PM the campus director called the MP's to tell them that at 2:45 that afternoon, a call had been received that there was a bomb on the center. So that's why the MPs were there. It turned out to be a false alarm, an early April Fool's joke. (The reason the campus director called the military police, MP, was because the Job Corps center was actually the old Navy Base during WW2, or so we were told. The MP's make several unnecessary visits, just to make everything is safe and sound, every day). Another time, later that year, maybe late August or early September, we had just finished dinner and my friends and I had just left the cafeteria when all of a sudden, about 30 MP's arrived and went in the gym. Moment's later, everyone that was in the gym came running out, except for the one's that started all the trouble. I guess what happened was that there was a basketball game going on and this white girl came in with a black guy and then this huge racial riot of sorts started. That's the MP's were there that time. Other than that excitement, it was pretty dull.
Sorry if I got off the subject a little bit.
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