Christmas Break

So Christmas break has come and gone. Bootcamp ended on the 16th of December roughly and was followed by two weeks off for rest and a final at home session. We came back yesterday, the 1st for a final week of hanging out and perfecting the dances, dramas and material that we'll be bringing over. A few crazy things happended over the break and I will tell you about two of them.

The first is my personal story. During Bootcamp I had been working on a video that goes with dances that the girls have been working on for school presentations that we'll be putting on while were in Thailand. My computer had been acting kinda buggy the whole time but the video was basically done at the end of bootcamp and I was looking forward to my two weeks off to poilish it up and finish it off. About two days into my break though I lost the hard drive on my computer and all the video data! To follow would be a week of frustration trying to recover data, a struggle that turned out to be all in vain. End the week off with some festivities and manditory family funtions, I forgot my troubles long enough to enjoy some Christmas. Week two, re-editing and exporting video literally up until the minute I left home for Calgary with a Kanker(spelling?) sore the size of Montreal and suprisingly a better video overall than I came home with.

Second story isn't mine but is gnarlier. A girl on my team named Jessica was waitressing during her Christmas break and started to notice her heart was beating unusually fast and for no good reason. Appearantly the intense beating of the heart escelated so much that you could see it beating through her shirt! A co-workers mother came in for an after shift pick up and was called to take a look, She grabbed one of those things you check blood pressure with and insisted that Jessica go to the clinic imediately.

Appearantly She was having a heart attack and to follow would be some sort of injection to stop her heartbeat from escelating until She died. The injection though left her heart stopped for twelve seconds. After which it began beating again and climbed to a normal rate where it stayed and her heart is fine now. I couldn't believe it though, a girl on my team was clinically dead this Christmas for twelve seconds and She's here in Calgary and still coming. From what I gathered the attack was due to an extra nerve that started sending extra siginals for the heart and it sort of short-circuted or somthing. She's going to have surgery to fix it when She gets back and should be fine while were in Thailand. Our leader is a certified EMT so in the small chance that her heart goes off again we should be able to deal with the situation properly.

Anyways, I'm back in Calgary and it feels good not to be stressing over a video. A week of relaxed development, prayer and seeking until departure.