Designs, Tickets etc.

The advance design skills workshop started yesterday. We covered a variety of basic topics about site analysis and client briefs. Today we are practicing drafting techniques that incorporate permaculture principles and methods. This is a nice break from the technical drafting I have done in the past. We are designing things and spaces relevant to most people's lives, not close-ups of bolts and screwdrivers.

Oh, yesterday I also bought my train tickets for the Blue Mountains (south-west of Sydney). I'm headed for Lithgow, an old coal mining town. This is where my hosts live. I met them during the Eco-Village design course (during which I mentioned the workshop I was doing in the Blue Mountains). Lucky enough, they live close to Katoomba (the town were the workshop is). They decided to do the workshop too, so I'll have free lodging and transport! I leave Nimbin and Djanbung Gardens on the 21st. It will be sad to go, but I feel the time is right for something new before I go back home. Now I just have to pack. Noooooo!

More to come/ follow.....

-Matt