Stories from the Road 2002
an ongoing travelogue

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If you are planning for upcoming events, you may want to note the following workshop:

"Creative mosquito net hanging techniques."
taught by Raku

This will be a lecture-demonstration covering intermediate to advanced mosquito net suspension engineering and related subject matter.

Students should have some prerequisite travel experience and basic proficiency with Computer Animated Design Software.

Covered topics will include:

· Budget suspension hardware.

· Creative knots (and how to undo them).

· Thinking like a mosquito.

· Patching-up holes with unlikely materials.

· What to do when there is (seemingly) nothing to tie your ropes to.

· Entry and exit techniques.
and

· Getting the net as far away from your face as possible.

 

Additionally, there will be a panel discussion/debate on the very important question, "What do I do when I wake up in the middle of the night and see that there are at least fifteen mosquitoes inside my mosquito net?"
Panel experts will include a Buddhist monk explaining one approach and Raku explaining a slightly
different approach.

Students should bring the following materials to class: 15 meters of nylon rope, 4 wooden clothes line clips, 3 paper clips, 2 rubber bands, a flashlight**, a stopwatch, and a roll of dental floss.

**We will practice assembling "the contraption" in a mock power outage situation.

Nets and mosquitoes will be provided.

Enrollment is limited to six so sign up soon!