Dart’s mood doesn’t seem to have improved much. Last night, he and Hal Martin were both so disgusted with this place that they decided to go to the bottom of the “hole,” namely the actual town of Norfolk.

“We ate dinner, looked at the 1946 Ford, saw a movie, walked around with the aroma of the fertilizer plants doing frightful things to our noses and stomachs, and then we came ‘home.’ My comment: Norfolk doesn’t need the fertilizer and glue factories to make it smell.”

They learned that Norfolk actually has a live symphony orchestra, but the concerts are attended only by Norfolk’s snootier citizens. Sailors need not try getting in.

The movie they saw was  “Her Highness and the Bellboy,” which was fun and entertaining. It was their entire enjoyment for the week.

No mail today.

Dot writes this letter before her 10:00 AM class, telling Dart of a meeting she and Mid attended last night. It was the organizational Health, Phys Ed Club and she had lots of fun. Although the girls outnumbered the boys by about 2-to-1, they still had a mixer to get people acquainted. Her first dance was with “Tiny,” a guy who was anything but. Next to his 6′ 7″, 350 pound frame, Dot felt like a dwarf, but she had loads of fun. The root beer and donuts were the finishing touch on the evening.

She’s not happy that both she and the Navy have designs on the same man. She feels that the battle is weighted in favor of the Navy, so there’s nothing she can do but sit back and wait for him to be available to her. She can only hope that all the weeks to come fly by as fast as this past week did.

Sounding a lot like her fiance, she says she’s sick of the hole she lives in. She’s thinking about calling Helen Peterson to ask if she’d like someone to come to her house next weekend to do dishes. Dot misses Dart’s parents almost as much as she misses him.

Another letter just arrived from Dart in the morning delivery, but she must dash off to archery class, where she made three bull’s eyes last time. Also, her physical science came back with a B on it, but she dreads learning her fate on the recent biology exam.

She’ll try to get a long letter off to him soon, explaining in detail how much she loves him.