If there was an oasis in the vojska, this was it. We don't even wear caps - unthinkable. Because it can get really windy here, which I went through, a month later - going through the gate at right angle to the road sounds normal until you realize that the slant of the road there is just about 30-40 degrees.
But today the weather was lovely, and we had good view of both the inner and outer bay, and of Velebit in the north, and the sun was shining and there was almost no wind. In the lee of the kitchen there was no wind at all, and I got a light fixture shell under my head, covered it with my cap (which I still had with me, for no good reason) and fell asleep. I woke up an hour later, with a severe headache. Sunstroke. On 2nd of january. Slept it off.
The nice thing with the mornings here is there's nobody on the fire duty, there's only one guard. And at 7:00 he just rings the bell, no yelling "rise, army!" at the sleeping guys. Nice touch. And the breakfast is much better than down there - we get bacon, eggs, and fresh bread made by our cook. And despite all the walking up and down the hills, I began gaining weight. What did me in, I think, was the extra meal the night shift was getting - quarter kilo of bread, half a liter of milk or yogurt. Sometimes it was fruit milk, in the later months, which sounded odd but ended up being just great.
Around tenth we had chicks. The graduates from medical high, about a dozen of them, came in shape of some youth exchange or whatever. Actually or vodnik (guess that would rank as corporal) was with one of them, they actually got married some four months later when she graduated. She was some kind of activist in the youth org, so she imagined this as an event which would bring her brownie points, so all positive and all of a sudden we had female company for the evening. The vodnik took explicit care in preventing any appearance or alcohol or anyone going bonkers, but no need, it all passed fine. We danced a little, chatted a lot, spent a couple of hours together and then dispersed. The event amounted to roughly nothing, but at least this view of females refreshed the week. And, of course, a mere hour later everything looked even more lousy than before.