Just a quick note before heading to bed early. Time has been flying yet again. Many after hours get togethers ate up the evenings, so there was little time to post.
Today my parents left to return to Krakow and back home from there. It was great to have them see this truly extraordinary job site, project and meet some of the people I am surrounded by. They let me work during the day and in the evenings we went for dinner and listened to a talk by a local archeologist, who had made some astonishing finds on a hilltop just north of Sanok.
The second group of students had their last day yesterday and are on their way back through Poland and on home. A few are staying for the entire project, but nonetheless we had a quiet day today, with mostly the timber framing crew working away at their stations. The site felt somewhat empty but focussed. Tomorrow group three arrives with twenty new students, and we just had a meeting with the entire crew ( for the first time) to get ready and receive them with the appropriate mindset. Teaching a group of students is very rewarding. Teaching a second one a little later brings new challenges. But then having all those leave, only to be replaced by brand new batch of greenhorns guarantees frustrations. So getting together as the teachers, coming up with a game plan has been reassuring.
The end of the project is looming, and the scope is fuzzy in my mind. I do hope that we'll achieve a complete frame, but I anticipate a scramble at the end. Nothing like a deadline to focus attention. We shall see.
Now I am off to bed
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