Journal Entry, week 12
November 6th 2015
This was definitely one of the best weeks so far when it comes to lectures, Ezra, who was our speaker, was a really powerful speaker who really connected with a lot of us. He brought up different points that I would never have thought about when it comes to living a Christian life. The one day that he was talking about music really impacted me, seeing how he was able to show the true heart and motive of many really popular bands was quite eye opening. Even the Beatles had off mindsets that were really in the motive of doing what you want, doesn’t matter what people think, it’s your life so live it out as you want. There’s no regret or even sympathy for other people. It was incredible seeing what different bands were associated with. Unfortunately now some of my favorite bands have a background so it’s tough to listen to them without getting convicted, but oh well it is what it is.
The rest of the week was really chill with rain falling every day, so not much for adventures outside, but it did feel good to relax, play a few board games and just enjoy each other’s company. I did get some really incredible news on Wednesday though. When I woke up, the first thing I saw was my phone full of updates about how I was featured on National Geographic, with the Low Light story. So it was a pretty insane way to wake up, then not even an hour later I got an email from one of the editors for Matador and she wanted to do a story on my photos in Alberta. If that wasn’t enough, later on in the day I got an email that I was finally accepted as a professional photographer by a huge printing company, even without half of the criteria that they normally need! To end off the day, I was messaged by a photographer back at home and she was judging the Cold Lake photo contest this year. She didn’t find a cover image for the magazine, so she wanted to test out some of my shots and see how they would look with print on them! Within that there were several smaller, like start up magazines in Edmonton and different people asking for prints. All these offers just absolutely boggle my mind when I think about how crazy that day was…
Saturday was a lot of fun as well, myself and a few other students from the base here went to help with Blue Cross, kind of like a youth program here in Norway, with rock climbing! It was really perfect, not too many people showed up, so we got a semi-formal lesson on setting up the gear and getting ropes hooked up. By the end of the day I was able to an entire line set up and I knew how to use all of the systems that they had brought. We’re going to try and make this a weekly thing when we get back so that we we’ll be able to do some outdoor climbs later on and even, possibly, set up some high lines up in the mountains to walk across!!!
