It always takes longer for your stuff to arrive across the ocean... Our container was chosen for an on-site inspection by Canada Customs in Montreal. As if we were smuggling booze from astronomically expensive Norway...
This is how it looked inside the container - a shock.The most amazing thing was that despite the wreckage, nothing was broken! (Thanks to our very careful - and professional, after all this moving around the planet - packing.)Not too long ago those same boxes and same contents arrived in Kauto, Norway. It was a snowy, cold January night 2007.This is how it looked back then - and yes, we unpacked those boxes and then packed them once again this summer.Life is a box! Those dear boxes back in Ontario, this time in Toronto. If we'd known that we'll be back so soon, we'd left our stuff in the storage in Burlington (where they indeed were for a few months) and saved a lot of energy as well as money. But moving is fun! Now these boxes are, once again, empty and carefully stored away in the basement for the next time. Who knows where the next box takes you!
We have moved 23 times. Do you want another one for yourself?
Native Studies/Women’s and Gender StudiesFaculty of ArtsUniversity of ManitobaThe Faculty of Arts at The University of Manitoba is searching for a candidate for a joint position in the Department of Native Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. …
Closing date for applications: October 15, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/3zzu8o
it really is amazing that nothing broke! not even the things that deserved to crack up!
a bit of humour on moving stuff around:
We have moved 23 times. Do you want another one for yourself?
Native Studies/Women’s and Gender StudiesFaculty of ArtsUniversity of ManitobaThe Faculty of Arts at The University of Manitoba is searching for a candidate for a joint position in the Department of Native Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. …
Closing date for applications: October 15, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/3zzu8o
Contact Diana Brydon brydond@cc.umanitoba.ca