FIVE_Before, during and after the visit

Registering users, workspace
Other vistors

Francesca came home from school today with that little packet of bolted coupons. These Officina Emilia types are funny! A bolt and nut to hold that little book, which seems made of large playing cards. Franci said that we can also see these things online, and I know that lathe well, it is the Monarch, and at school I've spent months to understand how set up the tools and afterwards it learned how to work it perfectly. I still remember how excited I was when our teacher told me that my piece was done to perfection.

The web page homm is like entering the webpage of my local cycling association, only that there are many more activities. I also found a group of former student of Corni like myself who learned mechanics on that lathe. We opened an online discussion and we agreed to meet. On the calendar page we set one afternoon after work when we could meet at OE and decide if we could re-start the Monarch lathe as when we were using it.

We went on Saturday with the others from blog_Corni (we were seven as agreed), and there it was different from how I imagine a museum, everything on display could be touched, and there were also kids who work as tutors for the schools. They explained to me how the lathe works: and I have been a lathe operator all my life! But they were passionate about it. And some girls made me assemble and program the robots. They made me understand why when Franci came home she said, "is too good!" She usually does not speak well of things at school, and it was Binora who took them there.

With my colleagues from the blog, we organized how to intervene on the lathe, but we needed people to collect the materials and technical drawings, and we also needed an electrician (we are mainly mechanics) and so we found one. Giulia from OE?s documentation centre told us they want to film us while we do the maintenance.

Every time I enter the site, after I registered the first time, I identify and find where we stand with our restoration project of the lathe. When I cannot go, I follow what others have done, and going by the last images that have been taken and put online I realize that they are going slowly. Next Saturday we have to stay there until we finish.

The last time I logged in (Walter sent me a text for the next appointment) I also found the news about a class that is doing research on immigration. I talked with Saverio, but also with Chang, about some stories from the South of Italy and from China that the kids have put online: they sound like their stories! And they are stories that this association shows around the world. On Saturday they are also coming to see the completed videos, which are going to be projected in the Museolaboratorio.