Lessons Learned or "The End of the Beginning"
I was reminded today of how difficult endings are. It was my last day in the Canada office and bittersweet would not begin to describe that milestone. While I am beyond excited to go home for Christmas and to spend some much anticipated time with friends and family, I already miss my eMi family. Here is what has transpired over my last month in Calgary. Project Completion! Just today (Tuesday December 16th) Kevin, Katey and I put the finishing touches on our report and drawing set for the ministry in Myanmar. The past two weeks were a bit of a scramble, co-ordinating changes to drawings, making sure architectural and structural plans agree, and praying that AutoCAD (our drawing software) and Windows explorer would stop crashing. We had some full days of work but it was extremely fun in these eyes. I was especially happy to dive fuller into the structural side of our work, as I was able to do some preliminary work on column location and beam sizing for many of the planned bui