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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Day 3

Photo: Miguel Perez

Day 3 started with project work related discussions on the raft-house. We were productive and managed to agree on several important things. It was quite windy and we had to cancel the initial plan to go canoeing in the afternoon, but we could try riding on hydro-bikes. After the meeting we were floating along the river for several kilometres and the raft-house which had an engine took us eventually to an old wool mill where a family still produces woollen string with machines older than 100 years. Then we had some free time at Rapla until it was time to have dinner in the local culture house.
To sum up - our group knows how to work hard, but also is very fun-loving and gets along with each other well which makes it just great. :-)

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