Monday, April 3, 2006

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Three more weeks and a review

The preparations for our Canadian adventure in full swing. In exactly three weeks, we sit on the plane!
But for those who are with our project yet so familiar, be something out brings forth: The intertwining of the (obligatory) Winnetou and other adventure stories about two decades, matured in Adi desire to sel over again to build a log cabin. Ever since I met him six years ago, he speaks of them with frightening regularity. His persistence had an effect: even I began to pull this project into the spell. We started as many as possible information for the Blockhüttenbau in the form of witness reports, building instructions or collect slide shows. We knew that it would not be easy to find a piece of land on which we could build our cabin. But chance would have it, Koni Heiniger, a teacher colleague of Adi, good friends in Quebec. Sylvain and Johanne have a little further north (20 km from the village of artists Baie-Saint-Paul), a 40 square kilometer (!) Of land. On a simple Scholars tterpiste, is approximately 20 minutes from Baie-Saint-Paul of the beautiful vacation cabin Johanne and Sylvain, the stands at the rear of the lake. Forest is all around as far as the eye. We could hardly believe our luck when we Johann e via e-mail informing them that we could build on the middle lake our cabin. Now our project has been slow and specifically with the input and approval of the request for leave of our principals was a first big step forward. The second consisted of a two-week trip to Canada last fall. We were thrilled! A beautiful country with varied scenery, very friendly and helpful people and an Indian Summer, the beautiful would not have been.
A third important step was the participation in Ralphs log building course in southern Germany. As teachers, we were the exotics among the remaining 14 participants, all carpenters, joiners or fitter were. The five-day course was simply awesome, but let us also imagine how hard that is to be physically work that awaits us in Canada. (With regular changing hands each night we tried to conceal the trembling of the coffee mug.) By Armin and Thomas, we had two types in our super-module. They left by our initial tardiness and awkwardness do not bring calm and helped us with their patience and their tips as always. And now comes the kicker: Both Armin and Thomas come to visit us in Canada and help us each about two weeks during construction. And even though independent Armin Zimmermann and early June, his last season and Thomas holiday sacrifice for this year must! Because someone will say that the Germans were not spontaneous!

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