[Sca-cooks] classes, was Water at Pennsic

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

<snerk>
only a few people who take back to back classes?
<cough, choke, whheze>
I would if i didnt have a booth to run

by the by, i am teaching two classes this year:
Fiber Arts: Embroidery
Period Samplers
Fri 8/11 12 noon AS07 Fri8/18 11am AS08

Sewing Basics
Thread and Fabric Materials
($5 materiel fee, free otherwise)
Fri 8/11 11 am AS07  Fri 8/18 10am AS08

so those two classes are EACH back to back......
Kirsten Houseknecht
Fabric Dragon
kirsten at fabricdragon.com
www.fabricdragon.com
http://fabricdragon.livejournal.com/

Philadelphia, PA     USA
Trims, Amber, Jet, Jewelry, and more...

Before you leave the house: hat, water, medication if needed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:28 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Water at Pennsic


> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa replied to me with:
> <<<
>  > It usually isn't needed. I didn't make Pennsic 24, but I was at a
>  > later one that was hot and that was the one where the waterbearers
>  > were occasionally making the rounds of the tents and/or leaving
>  > bottles of water. Not allowing them to do so thugh... This really
>  > sounds like someone's beauracratic turf building/defending with
>  > little thought to the safety of the regular Pennsic participants.
>  > The ones on the field are not the only ones in need of replenishing
>  > liquids during a very hot Pennsic. And for many people the walk back
>  > to their camps is not a quick little jog away.
> 
> Drinking water is still available at Chirugeon's point, which is
> (thankfully) reasonably close. The availability of water at Chirugeon's
> point is the justification.>>>
> 
> I remember seeing the misting area there and sometimes taken  
> advantage of that. I may have missed the drinking water being  
> available there.
> 
> Are there any paper cups or such to bring the water back to a class  
> tent? I try to remember to bring a mug, but sometimes don't remember.  
> Now to get the teachers to end classes on time, instead of trying to  
> run from one class tent, to the chirugeon's point, get water and get  
> back to my next class, and hopefully get a chair in the shade (or at  
> all) in the two minutes between the classes. Oh well, there are  
> probably only a few of us that schedule two or three classes back to  
> back to back.
> 
> Thanks for someone mentioning the jugs and where they might be  
> filled. Without that info I might have hesitated to try to fill them,  
> not knowing whether they needed to be sanitized or whatever before  
> filling, even if I knew about the water. If it is a hot Pennsic, I  
> will especially keep this in mind and see if they need filling.
> 
> IMHO, the solution to problems like not having enough water jugs to  
> provide water is not to state that you don't have the supplies and  
> manpower to do it, but to solve the original problem. For instance,  
> quite a lot of camps buy pallets of drinking water for their camps.  
> I'm sure some of them could be convinced to drop off their used  
> bottles for use in the class tents or where ever. Sometimes it is a  
> matter of simply getting the word out.
> 
> And a big thank you to those of you who might have been helping with  
> this unofficial effort in the past.
> 
> Stefan
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