Patrik Olterman


  • First week in England

    First week in England

    So here we are at William Booth college. It is a strange feeling to stand in our new flat filled with boxes and every surface covered with knick-knacks and do-dawds. I don’t even know how to put words to all the conflicting emotions and thoughts I have at this point. Two weeks ago I was…

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  • Touchdown

    Touchdown

    Last night at 22:40 we arrived at Stanstead airport. The first thing we did was violate national security by taking a picture at border control which will not be shown here because they made me erase it. Then we went to the hotel Anja asleep since the flight but Angelina awake and very excited. Now…

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  • T minus 6 hours and counting

    T minus 6 hours and counting

    So today is travel day, tonight we sleep at a hotel at stanstead airport and tomorrow morning we move in at WBC. It seems unreal that we are not heading back to Latvia after our little mini vacation. London, in my mind at least, has a kind of mythical quality to it, like it is…

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  • T minus 4 days and counting

    T minus 4 days and counting

    Four days, I mean it’s completely nuts! In four days we will move in at William Booth College on Denmark Hill in London. We will put our kids in day care and start college. Wow that is just a complete brain reboot. And the OS is going very slow right now because of the heat.…

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  • T minus 5 days and counting

    T minus 5 days and counting

    So I missed to write yesterday ….. Well yesterday was a big day for Angelina. For the first time ever she went in to the sea and let go of her footing, she had inflatable arm rings and a Mickey Mouse lifesaver and she let go with her feet. I said Angelina look at you…

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  • T minus 7 days and counting

    T minus 7 days and counting

    And counting, and counting….. Little colder today only, well about 29 degrees. Swimming (technically I am not allowed to swim so I got me a pair of flippers so that I can only paddle with my feet) and drinking lattes on the beach. I know we should start thinking about college but here we are…

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  • T minus 8 days and counting

    T minus 8 days and counting

    Today we went shopping in the morning and bought a DivX enabled DVD player for our room here in Croatia. We decided to take it easy today and not go to the beach. So we stayed in the house in the afternoon. I got some time in on the training cycle and we got some…

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  • T minus 9 days and counting

    T minus 9 days and counting

    Croatia is showing her best side with sunshine and warm water, and today it cooled of a little so it was not to hot. Angelina and Anja are enjoying the incredible freedom of the beach and the sea, Angelina has turned into a fish and she wont get out of the water until she is…

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  • T minus 10 days and counting…

    T minus 10 days and counting…

    Oh dear, What a ride. We had a lil farewell gathering at our empty apartment the last evening we had a picknick on the empty living room floor and had general fellowship. Our friends had made a goodbye gift in form of an album with images from our entire stay in Latvia and it was…

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  • Brask lapp

    Brask lapp

    Since we have holidays in Croatia and then moving to WBC in London where our internet options are very limited it might be a while before this blog is updated, We might also be very slow in answering emails, have faith….  We will be back! uq mail

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  • Last words…

    Last words…

    Today is my last day in Latvia, I’ve had my last lunch in the small hall, my last sit down with Edvins and Edgars, my last salary and made the last call on my cell phone before handing it in. The last boxes has been loaded on the truck and we will have our last…

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  • Countdown

    Countdown

    After an Outrageously furious week of doctors appointments, packing and last minute arrangements it seems we have entered the final stretch. Tomorrow morning the moving company arrives to pack whatever we couldn’t (or wouldn’t as the case may be) and on friday they take the load on a truck to London. We leave Saturday morning…

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  • Be separate!

    Be separate!

    As a clarion call throughout space and time  2 Cor 6:17  challenges us to be different, to be separate. The more I try to shake the verse out of my mind the harder my mind is held captive by this simple statement that simply turns my life upside down…. Step out from the ranks of…

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  • Holiness, Holiness is what I long for
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    Holiness, Holiness is what I long for

    I found this quote here, and it really spoke to me, it is the core beliefs of Opus Dei, ((A Catholic order that has been much questioned because of some of their practices)) Whatever one is to think of Opus Dei this statement rings true to me. This would be how I see holiness, and…

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  • Pain and panic!

    Pain and panic!

    The move to England is drawing closer with every tick of the clock. As I survey our slowly deteriorating home I am overwhelmed with panic. There is absolutely no way that we can finish up everything that needs to be done before we send of the first truck to Sweden for storage on the 9th…

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  • Physiotherapy

    Physiotherapy

    It’s been a tough week, my knee is giving me loads of pain and it has disrupted all of the moving preparations. Hanna is climbing on the walls since we cannot proceed with our plans. It’s taking it’s toll on Hanna to to alone run after the girls around the clock. I have found a…

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  • WMA Camp report by Colin "Gabriel" Hatcher

    WMA Camp report by Colin "Gabriel" Hatcher

    WMA CAMP – JULY 12, 13, 14, 2007, IN RIGA, LATIVIA SPONSORED BY RIGA SCHOLA SAINT GEORGE (SSG) STUDY GROUP (GROUP LEADER PATRIK OLTERMAN); WARRIOR SELF DEFENCE (WSD) RIGA (FOUNDED IN 1999 BY PRINCIPALE PATRIK OLTERMAN) AND GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY THE SALVATION ARMY IN LATVIA AND SKANGALE SCHOOLHOME, SKANGALE, LATVIA Instructor: Mr. Colin Gabriel Hatcher…

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  • He calmed the storm

    He calmed the storm

    On our way to the Bible adventures camp the leaders team was supposed to replan the camp, with my injury and the Kozlovskas leaving in mid camp for a funeral we thought we might have to redo the planning at least for the second day where they would be gone. We did however get side…

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  • The dedication of Anja

    The dedication of Anja

    At the sunday meeting of our SSG & WSD camp we had Anjas dedication service held by Captain Artūrs Baltacis. It was a beautiful ceremony where we where all dressed in the medieval clothes appropriate for the event and with the Salvation Army Flag held high to tie the ceremony into the “Real world”. Colin…

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  • Knee trouble

    Knee trouble

    In a dagger fight with Gabriel I injured my knee so I am hopping around on one leg for two weeks, praying it is not a torn cartilage and just a sprain. This however gives me an excuse to catch up with my blogging and my paperwork. But leaves a very heavy load on Hanna…

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  • First Knight

    First Knight

    At the WMA Camp 2007 we had the great honour of awarding the order of the disciple Knight to Colin “Gabriel” Hatcher who is now the First Knight of the order. We had a small but powerful Knighting ceremony at the last day of the camp where Gabriel was dubbed. Later in the Ceremony Gabriel…

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  • A hysterical week…

    A hysterical week…

    After two trips to sweden within the space of one week I now have to really dig in to get everything in order for the two summer camps and the move to London. As it turns out we will not be able to move until the 28th of August which is a bit disappointing as…

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  • A little break….

    A little break….

    We found a good price for tickets to go to Oslo which is only two and a half hours drive from where my grandparents (now my mothers) summer place. So we took a time out and escaped to the swedish archipelago. It started out with a two hour flight to Oslo then a three hour…

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  • WSD celebration!

    WSD celebration!

    Today we finished of the WSD instructors course and ended our WSD – Womens self defence course with a graduation of our students. they all exceeded my expectations and showed unprecedented feats of warrior spirit, prowess and plain old whoop *ss! (pardon my french) So today I prodly present three new Compagnos, one new Scholar0…

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  • Why is this blog not updated?

    Why is this blog not updated?

    I am in the middle of preparing three summer camps and finishing of a complete martial arts manual. It is four huge tasks and therefore I have little or no time for anything else. I will continue posting the Knight school material and maybe a sporadic post here and there. The blog will spring to…

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