Tuesday- Today we got up at half six! I was really tired going to at seven, also I hadn’t really got a good sleep either, but I was excited about the day ahead anyway. We went to the junior mess hall where I had a cooked breakfast which was ok but not the best I’ve had. I didn’t like the bacon though as it was too fatty. After the mess hall we had around an hour to kill so we had our first group photo of the week outside the mess hall-

To kill some time we also went to the shop and I sew a modal of the Sea King which was really good as I had never seen one close up before!

Once we had killed time a bit we got to go to see the only air cadet squadron in Cyprus. And we had a look around I thought they had a really big squadron. There were no cadets about as they paraded that night not in the morning! But we were invited back to see them parade if we had time to do it. Once we had been to the squadron we went to see the U2 which is a spy plane so we weren’t allowed to take any pictures of it but there are some pictures on the internet of it if you wanted to see what it looked like. When we got there they took are 3822’s for security and led us to the sight were the U2 was about to take off and we saw the pilot all kitted up to go into the spy plane and get plugged into the plane. Also seven of the ten of us got to go into two cars to look at the plane take-off I was one of them so we had to put ear plugs in because of the sound and then we went down the run was as the plane took off and then saw the red arrows land at the same time which was really good too! When we got back we met back with the three that hadn’t been in the cars and split into two teams so that we could go have a look at the suit that the pilot wears (it is rather like a space suit) and look at the U2 a bit closer and look in the cock pit which was really interesting. Also we had a look at the food that the pilot eats while he is in the air which is also like space food. It tasted disgusting!

After seeing the U2 we went to the beach which was near were we were near our flats and enjoyed our food and the sun! When it started to get later in the afternoon it started to get colder though and it was very cold as we were all wearing our shorts and t-shirts! Only a couple of people went into the water as it would have been freezing cold!  At around half past four it was time to go back to our flats to change for our tea at the mess hall. The food was quite nice tonight and I was already tired and ready to sleep but it wasn’t near bed time just yet.

After our tea we went to the squadron to look how there squadron worked. There were only around 20 cadets there and so we nearly did a drill competition with them but before we could it was time for us to go because they were doing shooting. But we would have one of cause!

The first full day was nearly up we went back to our rooms now to have some free time before going to bed and so we all chatted in our room before it was bed time and we went to sleep at around 11 o’clock.

To kill some time we also went to the shop and I sew a modal of the Sea King which was really good as I had never seen one close up before!