12 april

Today was another exciting day! Patrik and Anna-Karin visited Benton & Associates, a consultant firm who worked with the cleaning up after the flood last summer when the water treatment plant in Jacksonville almost was washed away. Two lessons from the flood experience were to keep important manuals in a safe place and to keep a copy of the security plan not only in that building. They were lucky to rescue all old manuals and repair all machinery again.

Maria visited The Nursery School and Mari visited Jacksonville Art Glass and had a really happy smile when we met up in the car again!

After our vocational visits Helen fulfilled our desire to go to the Amish people in the area of Arthur. It was very interesting to see all the carriages that rolled on the road. With the camera ready we toured around in the area. Many were on their way to a wedding, which we unfortunately did not manage to find. The Amish people still live like in the 1800's even though some of them had their own Phone booth in their garden. They do not own cars but it is ok to get a ride in your neighbor’s car. Thank you Helen for the adventure!