This year has been an interesting year in my life personally. We adopted from Ethiopia and our adoption was so unique and twisted we were mentioned in the front page article of the NYT's and IHT. Now we have three wonderful children adopted from Ethiopia. While I was bored out of my mind staying at a guest house people would call and try to reserve rooms but the language barrier was too much a lot of times. My solution was to model the house and make the video accessible on the internet. That way people can call and know exactly what they want without relying on explanations of each room. I had great aspirations for the animation but I have to post this because I was not getting around to working on a better animation.
Untitled from Caleb Stoll on Vimeo.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Thanks for the post. I subscribe to your blog as a fellow SW user but was especially interested in this post. We brought home 2 adopted children from Liberia last summer ourselves. I can relate to the guest house experience but was not quite as creative with my time there as you were. I would love to read more about your adoption story. Do you have links to the articles mentioned? I noticed you other blog is by invite only.
Caleb, inspirational man. tell the story!
Josh
solidsmack.com
Nicely done. I don't think you needed to do it any better because I think we all got the idea very quickly. Inspirational for sure. Great job.
http://harlowmonkey.typepad.com/harlows_monkey/2007/06/new_york_times_.html
This was the front page article of the NYT's on June 4th, 2007. It just mentiones our situation briefly midway through.
Basically, we were sent home with a child another family from the US had adopted. They returned with another girl the week before we got home. Turns out there was a mixup of 3 girls and our legal daughter was still in Ethiopia. After one year of jumping through hoops and figuring out the legal debacle we were able to keep the "wrong" girl and bring the girl that had become legally ours home.
I tried to get educational licenses at the tech school in Ethiopia but it never panned out and I never heard back from SW before leaving. I would still like to arrange that when I go back.
One funny story you might enjoy. Email was how I communicated with our attorney back home and family. The first time at the internet cafe I noticed a 3D model printout on the wall and asked the owner what software he used. He said Autocad and asked me if I knew of it. He had taken classes and learned how to use Autocad. I told him I had used AutoCAD, Unigraphics, Solidworks, and PROE. The next day I went to check my email he was so excited and had acquired my favorite software. I showed him how to use the tutorials and helped him out. He was amazed by the capabilities of SW.
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