Work Chaos

I didn't really want to write about this but after my first week back I felt it was necessary.

The week before I came back to site, they had a fatality at site here. It was not someone I knew pesonally but I had seen him and talked to him here and there. This really affected me because it was a helicopter incident and I have been on the same helicopter in the past. Thinking about that scared me a little because you really don't know what can happen in life

Once I got here, I started on a big project of shipping waste off site on sea lift. We were working 16 hour days at a minimum for the first 8 days. Hence I was not at any of the classes via Zoom. After than many days you tend to get touchy and you feel angry, irritated and stressed. It was a week of not much happening aftyer work and even for the next 2 days after

If that was not enough, we now have a Covid outbreak on site. there have been 7 positive cases so far and 100 close contacts identified. What this means is all these people are or will be flown out as off today and the remaining ones of us will be tested daily for the next 5 days to confirm we are all good.

A lot of things happening but I am still happy because I am alive and healthy. And I have family and friends that I get to see when I am home or through Zoom when I am not.

See you all soon

Goodbye.

I have been trying to figure out the best way to blog about this but have not come up with a great way to word it so i will just put it out there.

My attendaence and activity level in Kung Fu has been been down the last couple of weeks and it's because of where my mind is at. The day before I came home, I found out my grandmother passed away. So on Thursday I went to her wake and it was a very powerful and emotional experience.

I feel like I need to give some backstory her. My grandfather lost his wife when my mom was 14. He met and married a woman from the Alexis First Nation and moved there when my mom was 21. When I was 9, I spent my entire summer on the Reserve at their place. To say I stuck out was an undersatement, but I was never treated differently and I experienced so many great things. I continued to do this until I was 13.

Jump ahead a few years, we moved to a house that borders the reserve so we could be closer to my Grandfather. I continued to see my friends and spend a lot of time there. As the years went on, my Grandfather passed and i started to lose contact with everyone. I would still see them as my mom gained 2 sisters (my aunts) and hence some neices and nephews but it was not as often.

The wake was a powerful experience because of what they do. The traditional drumming and singing was an emotional experience because you could hear feel the sorrow in the music. The ceremony itself with the peace pipe and the circle was something my brother and I were allowed to take part in. Even though it was a relationship through marriage, we are treated no differently than blood relatives. I will miss her and what she has done to make my life better.