He sat on a wood chair in the dinning room. On his right hand held a spoon and left hand had a fork. In front of him had a half plate of rice and 3-4 dishes eaten with rice. He sat between his brothers and his father and mother sitting opposite him. They were eating dinner together with talking about him because tomorrow he had the order from his school to go to the camp for practice about how to be a soldier. Before he went to practice at the camp about 2 years, he had the examination for select the man who was healthy. He had the push-up test, sit-up test and running test and he passed every exam.
When he finished dinner, he put down a spoon and folk to the same way, stood up and walked to his bedroom.
He grasped a doorknob, turned it to right side and pushed it. He walked inside the room and picked up a piece of paper that he writing the things that he wanted to use at the camp. He sitting beside a green bag and opened it. He looked the things in his bag and used a pen to make a sign back the word that match with the thing that he put it in the bag. He checked it around 5 minutes then he closed the bag and lift up for put it down on the chair.
When he finished checking everything, he reached with the arm to the wall that has a white switch for turned off a fluorescent lamp then the room was dark immediately. He walked to his bed and laid down on there. He fumbled a blanket, it was on his foot-end then he picked it to cover himself. He laid his arm on the forehead and closed the eyes just a few minutes then he opened the eyes again. He turned his eyes to the right and left but he saw just the darkness. His heart beating very fast and had an uneasy breath then he breathed in and out deeply for make himself to relax. He breathed deep again and again before he closed the eyes again.
The sky started to change the color from dark to sky blue and the sun started to rise, too. Many birds raised their voice and some of them were flying on the sky. The atmosphere was fresh, clear and the wind was blowing.
There was the sound of “Knock…Knock…Knock…” from the door. It was the noise that his mother knocking the door for woke him up. “Wake up son.” his mother called him. He opened the eyes, pushed a blanket that cover him to the right side and got up to sit on the edge of the bed. He rubbing hard with the hand to his eyes opened the mouth very big for breathe in-out and scratched his head. Then he stretched out his arms and legs before he stood up and slowly walked to the bathroom to take a bath. He bathed with a soap gel and shaved his beard. Then he put on a dark green T-shirt, trousers, long sleeved coat and picked up his bag in his room and went downstairs to the kitchen.
His mother was in the kitchen. She cooked a breakfast for him. When he walked into the kitchen his mother gave him a dish of food and she smiled to him. It was rice porridge. He took it and put it on the table and eating it. When he finished eating, he passed the empty dish to his mother and hugged her. She kissed his cheek and said good-bye to each other then he carried his bag on the shoulder and got out from his home.
He went to the school by taxi. When he stepped down from the taxi, he turned his head to left and right sides for searched for his friends. He searched for them a few minutes then he saw them waved the hand and called him loudly. He smiled to them and running to meet them. They were names “Bank” and “P”. Their clothes were the same as him. Then they walked into the school together. They were waiting the school’s bus to go to the camp around 20 minutes. When the bus reached at his school, it was parking in front of the school’s gate then they went to the queue for got in the bus. He got in the bus and turned his head to the left and right side for looked for the seat. While he turned the head to the right side Bank and P was called him to sit with them. All the way, that they were in the bus to go to the camp, they always talking and laughing all the time.
At 1.30 P.M., he arrived at the camp; it was a soldier’s camp and on the Kanjanaburi province. He picked his bag and got down the bus with his friends. Then he walked to the row for listen his teacher advised the solider who was the trainer. He listening his teacher every words that he spoke and looked his eyes all the time that he speaking. When the teacher finished advising the trainer, he separated the students to groups and in a group had two trainers. The trainers led him to go to the tent for keep the bag. In his tent had 3 people, he stayed with P and Bank. He got into the tent and laid down his bag on the floor and got out from there. After that, he followed the trainer to walk on the mountain for respected the image of Buddha. When he saw the way to go on the mountain, his eyes were big and he was agape because the way was very steeped and very far from his camp. The first time, he raced to run up to there with his friends but when they run to the half way, they stopped to run and they breathed very fast and high. They had many sweaty on the face and back. Their tongues were on the lips instead of in the mouth. They decided to slowly walk to there. When they finished respecting the image of Buddha, they walked down the mountain and their mouths were not stopped to talk to each other.
He got in the tent, opened his bag for picked a towel, clothes and walked to take a bath. The bathroom had many large basins for filled the water in there and the wall and floor in there had many smudges. When he finished taking a bath, he walked to the canteen for eating dinner. The plate that he got was a circle and separated 3 sections. The biggest section filled the rice and two sections were equaled for fill soup and fruit. When he finished eating, the trainers talked about the practicing, he sitting cross-legged on the floor, listened him but sometime he turned he hear to right side for talking with his friends.
The trainer finished talking around 11.00 P.M. then he walked to his tent and made a bed then laid down on there and closed his eyes.
The sky still dark and some stars were winking on there. The orange light from a flashlight shone to his eyes and heard the sound from the soldiers shouted for wake up everybody. He got up, opened his bag and picked up his clothes then walked to take a bath. He dipped up water and poured on his body, used toilet soap for scrubbed the body and poured the water again and again. He put on the clothes and walked to meet the trainer at the open ground in front of his tent. He stood and a little bit spread the legs; his hands were on the bottom. The trainer instructed about the rule of soldier. After that the trainer led him to the gunfire field. He walked into there and the soldier sent a gun to him, he reached out his right hand and got it. He walked to gunfire range then he raised the gun by the both hand, his right index finger was on the trigger and the left hand supported carefully the gun. He raised the gun to the target then he closed his left eye and gazed to it. “Bang…Bang…Bang…” he fired a gun then he pulled the rope for make a target slide to him, he picked it out and looked it. He closed his eyes and shook the head from side to side because the target has 4-5 marks but he had 10 bullets. After that he had a lunch and went to practice about crawl the mud under the barbed wire. The mud was dark brown and very sticky. He looked it and his mouth was wry, he raised his hand to squeeze his nose and looked up. He walked into the mud, laid flat on the face on it then he crawl on elbows pass the sticky mud passed through the barbed wire. When he finished, he went to take a bath and eating a dinner and the trainer talked about practicing again and allowed the students go to bed. While the trainer spoke, he closed his eyes and bowed the head then his head was nodding.
The third day he just walked very long way all the day. Then next day he woke up at 5.00 A.M. On the half day morning to afternoon he sat on the open ground for listen the trainer instructed. The sun was shone to him, he raised his hand above the head for cover his face from the sunlight. He has many sweaty on his face, arms and all his body. After that he went to practice about climbed the rope and wall. The next practicing was about balanced the body on the plank. He spreading out the arm and walked on the plank. He stepped his feet very carefully around himself has a pond filled with the very sticky mud. He slowly walked to another sides. The last practicing in this day was about running around the camp and kept the waste to the garbage bin. He started to run with his friends. By the way that he run, he found the snake’s corpse then he picked it and smiled to himself suddenly he thrown it to his friends. P and Bank had very big eyes, opened big mouths, screamed very loudly and run another way. He broke into a hearty laughter.
At night, the rain was falling very hard. Then he just stayed in the canteen. The trainers couldn’t teach anything because of the rain then they told the students to sitting on the chair and closed the eyes. When all of them closed the eyes, there was the sound of “BOMB!!” it was the voice of trainer threw a little bomb to the open ground. He opened his eyes very big and fast, startled and convulsed with fear. Then he was laughing with his friends. After that, he went to his tent and sleeping.
This day was the last day that he had the practicing. On morning, he walked up to the mountain for respected the image of Buddha, again. After that, he went to jump the tower. It was very high. He looked up to look the top floor then he smiled to his friends that walked beside him. They were opened up the mouth and had the big eyes. “It’s not too high.” He said together with run up on the top floor. When he reached on there, he met a soldier who was superintended on there. He smiled to him and walked toward jumping place. He poked his head for looked down the floor. Suddenly he opened wide eyes; the sweaty started to flow on his face and his hands. His heart beating very fast, he turned back to look the soldier face then soldier told him to jump. He turned back and looked down the floor again then he looked up and breathed deeply. While he breathed, the soldier kicked his bottom. Suddenly he had fallen down to the big lightly stuffed mattress. “Ahhh…..” He screamed very loudly while his body floated on the air. When his body reached to a cushion, he was on there just a few minutes then he got up and walked out from there.
He walked into his tent and kept everything in his bag. Then he carried it on his shoulder and walked to the school’s bus that parking in front of the camp. The soldier said good-bye to the students and talked with them just a little bit. He waved his hand to his trainers and got in the bus.
