Whisked Away

Sorry guys for the lack of current blogs. Life has as always been crazy busy. Three jobs with homework and fundraising for my trip to Ottawa has made life complicated. The weekend was great. A skiing trip to fernie is exactly what the doctor ordered.

But I did not start a blog merely for the sake of telling you why my life is harder than the other 6.3 billion people on this planet and why you should pity me. Something extraordinarily weird has happened. I'm not talking about rediscovering some obscure pudding flavor that you used to like way back in kindergarten weird. But more like a friend vanishing from the face of the earth in the middle of the night weird.

I was away from home this last weekend at a ski retreat with my youth group. Usually I spend most of my time hanging out with my friends at our local hill but as I mentioned above I couldn't. When I got back to school two days ago one of my class mates Matt wasn't there. I asked mildly curious were he might be (with the current second semester people have been coming and going with the end of basketball tournaments) . His friends said that he had broken his collar bone and was spending the next couple of days in the hospital. Something didn't sound quite right to me. I do not claim to be an expert but I know enough of CPR en such to know that a broken color bone would not constitute an extenuated stay in the hospital. Then I found out that a few days prior (Sunday I think) he had cleaned out his locker at school. Rumors began to surface that since he was going to be in hospital for a while his mom had decided to home school him because she was afraid he would fall behind in school. Again something did not seem quite right. One of my other classmates had hit a power pole on his toboggan broke all his ribs shattered his right leg and punctured a lung and he was still doing homework in the hospital. *( I don't claim to have had the foresight to have pieced all of these things together). Then today the real news of what happened. Him, his mother and his two brothers had packed their bags in the middle of the night and left for Japan. Matt had never broken his color bone. It was all a elaborate hoax for them to make there escape

It seams so unreal . But the thought of how much life changes has been predominate among my other thoughts of late. I mean one day you have a friend who you laugh and talk with, we skied lots and did lots of other things together. The next day you are faced with the fact that you will probable never see him again. I mean the last thing in the world I expected was to loose a friend so suddenly and in such a manor. Anyways, please pray for him, everybody at the school including the teachers miss you Matt.