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4/29/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well we are now cruising through our first week of Spring School. It has been great so far. Our main responsibility is to spend time with the students. So that results in a lot of sports, talks, helping people with problems, answering questions, some discipline, and so on. We have a great set of students so I think it is going to be a very good couple of months. I will be sure to let you know how it goes.
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4/28/2004
~ Dan
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| Well hello out there, to all our 3 faithful readers. I am still alive, not that there would be any reason to think otherwise, just not too much new or exciting to pass on. I know I promised a video... and well I am lazy. Actually I am supposed to be heading to Banff this weekend, for one final weekend of skiing for the year, so possibly there will be some more footage taken, and then hopefully, cross your fingers, I will get my act together and provide you all with some sup par skiing footage of me and my friends. Try and contain the excitement that is bubbling up within in your chest, and check back next week....
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4/27/2004
~ Jeremy
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Ok... another Tunisia Story. Kim and I are sitting in the airport waiting for our flight back to Austria. It's probably about 3am and Kim is sleeping against me and I am just kind of watching other people in the waiting area when I look down and out from the wall walks this big spider whose body is probably 2 inches wide with big meaty legs. One of his legs is folded over his back and he looks like he has been through many spider wars. I look at Kim then the spider then Kim, smile, and then wake her up when the spider is close to her she jumps and is now clinging to my arm. As we watch the spider just keeps cruising across the floor past this old German couple when the lady looks down and see it she jumps so high and fast bumps into her husband who also jumps, but then pushes her closer to the spider so that it will get her instead of him. So now I am starting to laugh quite a bit and the spider seems to not to notice anything and just keeps on cruising across the waiting area and heading for this ladies foot. It reaches her foot and then walks around, but never comes out the other side. All I can think is this poor lady is for one rude surprise. So... I walk over to her and try to explain to her that a spider is probably crawling up her leg, but she is deaf and has no idea what I am saying. So I just grab her leg and shake to which she is kind of wondering who is this guy getting fresh with me. Then looks down and steps on the big spider. She sits there in shock for a little while and then hide behinds her friend from this big spider who is now dead.
Heading back I think it is all over and we can rest in peace even though Kim refuses to put her feet on the ground, but then this cat shows up and starts throwing the spider all over the place and eating and spitting it up and eating it and tossing it at peoples feet. Well needless to say I was quite entertained till our flight came.
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4/24/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Ever wonder why in a poor African country, or many other 3rd world countries like Indonesia for that matter, that each house, shack, tent, camel and so on has a satellite dish. Well while we were in Tunisia we went for coffee with a local and he informed of us of many interesting facts including that they pay just a small setup of fee to purchase the satellite and receiver after which they can use it for free and have access to many satellites including two Arabic satellites some European satellites and at least one American one. No monthly fees just free access. Being as astonished as I was I soon learned that it is the same in Europe and it turns out it is just North Americans that pay for Satellite access. Since I don't watch that much TV anyway it's not a big deal, but it's something for all you satellite watchers to think about. Maybe you need to buy your equipment from Tunisia.
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4/23/2004
~ Jeremy
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We're Back!!!
Tunisia was a great time. The sun was hot and there was a constant wind that helped make it more bearable. We played lots of volley ball and other sports including wind surfing and even water skiing on the Mediterranean. Water skiing was fun, but the two foot waves made it a bit difficult to really cut hard or just stay up for that matter. None of the Tunisians had ever met Canadians before so we were sort of like mini celebrities. Everywhere we went people asked if we really were from Canada and if we could speak French. The Tunisians actually learn 4 languages in school Arabic, French (were colonized by the French), English and then a choice between German, Italian and Spanish. We would like to have thought we could escape all the Germans, but no luck. Most people spoke French and if the didn't speak French it was almost guaranteed that they spoke German. Not much for English speaking people there. Every night there were dances and shows to go to. One particular night was a skit night put on by the staff. I was luckily chosen to participate in the French salon skit which included them filling my hair with about a can of shaving cream and molding it in to different shapes and designs. I washed my hair twice that night and still had shaving cream in it for the next day. On the last night I was chosen to participate in a competition where they choose which Country had the best man. I had to compete with the French, Germans, Italians, and Portuguese. The vote was audience decided and unfortunately for Canada there was only one Canadian in the crowd, and about 100 French and another 50 Germans, Italians and Portuguese. To make matters worse I had to sing and convince the crowd to sing along with me, flex in a muscle competition, kiss as many ladies in 30 seconds as I possibly could, put on an aerobics program, and in a race gather as many women's shoes as I could before the other countries. Well considering that I can't sing, I don't have muscles, while racing to kiss the ladies I tripped on a chair and cut the end of my toe off and proceeded to bleed all over my sandals, followed by which I only got 20 some women's shoes (although I saw the German and French guy taking men's shoes as well, Cheaters!), and not to mention that I am to out of shape to do aerobics I did OK. I only lost to the French guy, but not before stealing some of his countrymen into the final vote for me. Considering I forgot the words to YMCA I think I did pretty good.
Other then that I laid in the sun, read 3 books, and ate lots and lots of free food. Well I hope you had a good week too.
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4/15/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well it has been a little while since my last post and it is going to be a little while till our next one. We are heading to Tunisia tomorrow at 5 am. Then nothing but hot sun, food, the beach, and the Mediterranean. Should be good as I have been so kind as to remind you. Since it has been so long since my last post and so long till the next I have added a movie to the teeuwsen.com movie library. It is a promotional movie that I am working on for the Tauernhof Ski Camps. Let me know what you think. Till next time!
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4/11/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well it has been a bit of a rough weekend as Kim and I have been pretty slick from fever to sore throat to just a plain old cold, but hopefully we are coming out of it and thankfully it has all happened before we leave for Tunisia.
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4/08/2004
~ Steve
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Hey Jer looking good climbing, nice to see you have a proud mane growing in there. Looks like you'll have to get climbing more though, dem rippeling back muscles seem to be a little lacking (not that I can give you a hard time unless rippeling back hair counts).
Well, I'm off to hong Kong tonight. I've got to get the visa stamped and wish I had more free time. I'd stay the weekend, but it's only two weeks till the show and I've got to get back and lock myself in the darkroom. So, it's twelve hours in Hong Kong, 8-8. I guess I'll see if I can catch a bus into town and dig the streets at night. That's probably all I'll able to do though, by the sounds of it everything is so expensive I should pack my food with me. But I'll get in and shoot a couple pictures so I can show yeh a little of what's there.
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| ~ Jeremy
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Ever notice that when you greet someone the first thing you ask is how you are doing? Often the person being asked or the person doing the asking don't really think to much about it and just says or expects to hear good as the response. So, seeing as I am a pretty average ordinary guy I asked Dan, "how's it going?" to which he replied "not to bad." After talking with him for a few minutes he informed me that he has a sun burn, he's stuck at work and he just sliced his hand open cutting bagel and had to get stitches, but you know he's "not to bad." Good stuff. I guess it is not bad compared to many others. Either way I'm doing good.
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4/07/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Tunisia here we come. We picked up the tickets today and we will be leaving next week Friday. The only down side is our return flight. 5:10 in the morning. Sometimes life is ruff.
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4/05/2004
~ Dan
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What do you do when you are at a skate park, cleaning up the storage room, and are bored? You have a fire behind the building, thats what. Lets just say I was feeling the heat.
Photo props go to Steve Opperdawg. Cheers!
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| ~ Jeremy
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| Well here are the first climbing pictures of the season as taken by Manu. It is suppose to rain and snow this week, but hopefully we get out on the rock soon and hopefully we will be able to go mountain biking soon. All in good time.
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4/03/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Today was a day of contrasts. Some of us went skiing and some went climbing. The climbing wall we were on is at the base of the ski hill. It was so warm that we were just wearing shorts and no shirts and right beside us people were skiing down in their full ski suits some of them wearing hats and scarves. I think we will go again tomorrow. I will be sure to put up some pictures.
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4/01/2004
~ Dan
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Here is something that Jeremy has never told any of us before. I am not sure why, but super sleuth noodle_k found this and showed me, and I thought the world should know. Jeremy was a member of 2 Unlimited. Not sure why he didn't tell us that he was part of the greatest techno band ever!! Check it out...
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| ~ Jeremy
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| April Fools. Well nothing to exciting happened today. No practical jokes. Quite disappointing over here in Europe, but for your pure reading enjoyment I have included a link to the Top 100 April Fools Jokes. Some aren't to bad.
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