Comments on: Nametsi…update. http://polishingpeanuts.com/03/2010/nametsi-update/ Trying to find sense in an often bewildering world Mon, 14 May 2012 09:08:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ian http://polishingpeanuts.com/03/2010/nametsi-update/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Ian Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:30:46 +0000 http://polishingpeanuts.com/?p=708#comment-63 Hei thanks for that! Actually, I can almost read your blog now........and no, my Norwegian has not come on in leaps and bounds! I use the Google Chrome browser and I recently found a neat 'extension' that I can set to automatically translate any Norwegian pages that I visit. It is pretty good, not perfect but I get the message! I of course agree with your words, we should wake up every day full of the joys of spring when you compare our lives to many that we share this planet with! Take care Ian Hei thanks for that!
Actually, I can almost read your blog now……..and no, my Norwegian has not come on in leaps and bounds! I use the Google Chrome browser and I recently found a neat ‘extension’ that I can set to automatically translate any Norwegian pages that I visit. It is pretty good, not perfect but I get the message!
I of course agree with your words, we should wake up every day full of the joys of spring when you compare our lives to many that we share this planet with!
Take care
Ian

]]> By: Gunhild http://polishingpeanuts.com/03/2010/nametsi-update/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Gunhild Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:27:39 +0000 http://polishingpeanuts.com/?p=708#comment-62 Hi again, Your reports on Nametsi were inspiring to me. Wrote a little something on Perspective on my blog: http://wp.me/pMA6w-8Q. In Norwegian, but maybe Cia can transelate :) Hi again,
Your reports on Nametsi were inspiring to me. Wrote a little something on Perspective on my blog: http://wp.me/pMA6w-8Q. In Norwegian, but maybe Cia can transelate :)

]]> By: Perspektiv « mitt snitt: et fristed http://polishingpeanuts.com/03/2010/nametsi-update/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Perspektiv « mitt snitt: et fristed Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:18:25 +0000 http://polishingpeanuts.com/?p=708#comment-61 [...] sitter igjen på den andre siden av jorda og lurer på om han kunne ha gjort noe anderledes. Kunne de ha valgt en annen teknisk løsning eller lagt helsestasjonen et annet sted? Antakelig [...] [...] sitter igjen på den andre siden av jorda og lurer på om han kunne ha gjort noe anderledes. Kunne de ha valgt en annen teknisk løsning eller lagt helsestasjonen et annet sted? Antakelig [...]

]]> By: Ian http://polishingpeanuts.com/03/2010/nametsi-update/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Ian Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:58:17 +0000 http://polishingpeanuts.com/?p=708#comment-59 Hi Gunhild, Thanks for stopping by! Yes...Nametsi. Difficult to describe how it felt to know that all those children fled into the Health Unit thinking that its 'permanent' status would make them safe. I have gone over it and over it thinking what could I have done. Should we have built it in a different place; a different design; implemented different education for the staff; held community education after the last mud slide (which happened just as we were finishing the unit). But in the end nothing can stop a debris flow as big as that. My local friend also said that no matter what you say; the people who live there are bonded to the land and nothing will persuade them to leave. So, the children become another sad statistic, but this time it is one that won't go away. I will carry the images that I have in my head always. Unfortunately we are broke at the moment which is probably a good thing, as I suspect that wild horses wouldn't have stopped me from going back! In contrast, we are rounding off our time out here nicely exploring Rotorua and Lake Taupo, which is proving to be very enjoyable. Catch you later, Ian Hi Gunhild,
Thanks for stopping by! Yes…Nametsi. Difficult to describe how it felt to know that all those children fled into the Health Unit thinking that its ‘permanent’ status would make them safe. I have gone over it and over it thinking what could I have done. Should we have built it in a different place; a different design; implemented different education for the staff; held community education after the last mud slide (which happened just as we were finishing the unit).

But in the end nothing can stop a debris flow as big as that. My local friend also said that no matter what you say; the people who live there are bonded to the land and nothing will persuade them to leave.

So, the children become another sad statistic, but this time it is one that won’t go away. I will carry the images that I have in my head always.

Unfortunately we are broke at the moment which is probably a good thing, as I suspect that wild horses wouldn’t have stopped me from going back!

In contrast, we are rounding off our time out here nicely exploring Rotorua and Lake Taupo, which is proving to be very enjoyable.
Catch you later,
Ian

]]> By: Gunhild http://polishingpeanuts.com/03/2010/nametsi-update/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Gunhild Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:13:37 +0000 http://polishingpeanuts.com/?p=708#comment-58 Hi Ian, I haven't been here for a while, so didn't see your reports from Nametsi until now. That is horrible! I cannot begin to imagine how these people feel right now. And it must be so difficult for you to be familiar with a place and with people, and not be able to do much to help out. But you did something, by posting info here and letting me and others know (I have to admit that this has passed me by unnoticed, if it ever was on the news here in Norway). I hope you will continue to inform us. All the best! Hi Ian,
I haven’t been here for a while, so didn’t see your reports from Nametsi until now. That is horrible! I cannot begin to imagine how these people feel right now. And it must be so difficult for you to be familiar with a place and with people, and not be able to do much to help out. But you did something, by posting info here and letting me and others know (I have to admit that this has passed me by unnoticed, if it ever was on the news here in Norway). I hope you will continue to inform us. All the best!

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