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7/31/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well we are back at Tauernhof again. It feels good to rest the feet. Pictures should hopefully be up tomorrow if I don't get sucked away into to much other work.
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7/27/2004
~ Jeremy
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| What an amazing last couple of days. Climbing yesterday and Canyoning today. We even hit up a little Mc Donald's on the way back, which is a rare treat. The only downside is that I have not video to show you as my video camera died last time we went Canyoning. This brings me to another very important point. If any of you have any spare money laying around doing nothing, but gathering dust then there is still an opportunity to give to my video camera memorial fund! What a great opportunity to bring teeuwsen.com movies back. Such high quality entertainment. Man I miss it... sniff sniff
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7/26/2004
~ Jeremy
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES TEEUWSEN!!!!
Have a great day Dad. I look forward to seeing you again soon.
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7/25/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well here are the pictures from the Dachstein Tour.
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7/24/2004
~ Jeremy
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Well we are back from another action packed adventure. We had absolutely amazing weather as we summitted the Dachstein and this time my group was lucky enough to have Kim along for the ride. The Dachstein is a 3000m(10000feet) mountain, the largest in the area, but what makes it so special is that it has a 1000m vertical south face and hopefully before the end of the summer I will summit the Dachstein again only this time up the South Face.
Soon there will be a picture update and plenty of stories to share. First one about the Dachstein. Hiking to the top is not too difficult, but involves crossing one of two large glaciers, while being roped together with your team mates so as not to lose anyone in a crevasse, followed by which we climb up one of two large klettersteigs that weave along the edge of the 1000m cliff. Klettersteigs are large sections of steel cable or rope that are bolted up the side of the mountain. The person climbing the klettersteig has a special "klettersteig set", which is basically two carabineers at either end of a short piece of rope which at the middle is attached to your harness. As you ascend the mountain you clip one carabineer on to the rope/cable and as you pass a bolt you clip the other carabineer in above the bolt and unclip the lower one and so on. The reason for the klettersteig is that the climb is either too difficult for normal walking or if you trip the risk of dieing is too great. Needless to say we climbed to the top of the Dachstein over glaciers, steep and dangerous terrain, and with our backpacks on. I must say I was impressed with how many handled their fears.
The only real danger that we almost faced was shortly after we had climbed off of the klettersteig and back on to the glacier. As we were preparing to start off across the glacier another climber started a rock slide down onto about 4 people climbing. Thank-fully no one was hurt, but both guides were surprised that no one was killed! Considering the size of group it is a good reminder of how important it is to be careful and constantly remind the students about safety and check that they are safe.
Here is a picture of me sitting on the highest point. I climbed the cross as well, but you can see that in the picture set that I put up tomorrow.
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7/19/2004
~ Jeremy
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Well the week in pictures has turned out to be the week and a bit in pictures. Here are some pictures of our most recent adventures. Lots of action and adventure both on the mountain and in the mountain.
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7/18/2004
~ Jeremy
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Well it has been an exciting week. Lots of adventure. I see that that Edmonton has some adventure of it's own with all the flooding. This week we did some climbing and caving and I will put up the highlights either tonight or tomorrow morning. Last night we went to Salzburg and watched Spiderman 2. I was satisfied with 2 very good hours of action and adventure. Then this morning I preached again. The sermon was on Doubt(23MB). Download it and let me know what you think. Sound quality is a little low, but not to bad.
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7/17/2004
~ Dan
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"I see that you are drinking 1%, is that 'cause you think your fat? 'cause your not, you could be drinking whole if you wanted to. Well I have all your equipment in my locker, you should probably come and get it because I can't fit my nunchucks in there anymore." Napoleon Dynamite
If you haven't seen it, go see it, and laugh and laugh and laugh some more. I will warn you, although this movie is quite funny, it really has no plot.
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7/11/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Almost forgot we are going out on tour so it is going to be a while till my next post, but I should have some good pics. Also I now have a link to my Resume. Just in case you have a job that might fit me. :) I am interested in Business Development and Marketing (probably in software firm although I am open) and on the flip I am still interested in Ministry, but I don't know where exactly I would fit.
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Here is a picture of some of us on the Night. All the Tauernhof Insturctors are part secret agent.
Kim ~ Katie ~ Jerry ~ Tobi
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7/10/2004
~ Jeremy
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Today is a pretty much a free day. Nice chance for a quick break. I got some pictures from my parents with my Dad's new hog just before they went out on a road trip. Definitely bad to the bone. :-)
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Good News sounds like Trevor is doing pretty good after his surgery. Most of his pain is going, he is still experiencing double vision, but other wise it sounds like it is going well.
Today we were repairing trails up in the mountains. Trying to get in good with the hut owners since they put up with 60 crazy upward bound students. My is good. I keep forgetting the digital camera, but soon I will show you all some good pics of them. Our name team name is "Love Wagon" or "Liebe wagen". Very classy I must say.
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7/08/2004
~ Jeremy
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Time is running out!!! Soon Kim and I will be on our way home and we know that many of you are excited to send us letters, but just have been putting it off for the right moment. Well that moment is here. We have increased the size of our European mailbox so as to handle the increased load, but remember we leave Austria August 14th so large packages must be mailed soon to reduce cost and smaller letter should be sent as well just in case they take a bit longer then normal. In case you have misplaced our address I have included it below:
Jeremy & Kimberly Teeuwsen
Tauernhof, Coburgstrasse 50, A-8970
Schladming, Austria.
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7/07/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Today's post is a prayer request for Kim's cousin Trevor and his family. He is going in for some very serious brain surgery. He had a shunt put in as a child and it is not working properly and because of this he has fluid building up around his brain that can be extremely damaging as the presure grows. It has taken two weeks for the proper doctor to see him and sort out the problem. Today he goes in for surgery to have his shunt replaced. It has been hard on him as they did many tests including a spinal tap and his family as they have lived with uncertainty. So, pray that the surgery goes well, that the doctors do a good job and that he has a good recovery. Also pray for comfort for his wife and parents and the rest of his family. I hope that is clear as I have been pulling information from various emails.
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7/05/2004
~ Jeremy
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Well it was the first full day of Upward Bound. We got to meet the students that are in our groups. Looks like it is going to be a good time. Everyone seems to be excited and I believe we have some pretty exciting things planned for them. I will try to capture some of the action with my camera this week and hopefully Saturday or Sunday we will have a good week in pictures.
The only downside with this last weekend was that I was surfing on the river with Christian when I pounded the bottom of my foot into a rock and now I have a bruise on the bottom of my feet that are suppose to be doing hiking. Hopefully it is better soon. So far my tough guy image is holding up, but I don't know for how much longer.
As well I have started climbing every morning on the local wall with Jerry(You can see his picture in the last week of pictures). Well every morning being this morning and hopefully others.
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7/04/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well the week in pictures is a day late, but here it is...Instructor Week. Upward Bound starts today and so far it looks like a good group and it looks like it should be a great time.
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7/02/2004
~ Jeremy
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| Well it has been a great week of training. I left the picture of Kim and I up for a while since it is so nice to look at. Starting tomorrow I am going to be doing the week in pictures. It will be a new feature on teeuwsen.com. I am hoping to add a bunch of other features, but they will have to wait to upward bound is finished, because I have to many other things to do. So... till tomorrow.
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