Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Ola Ribsskog summer-school
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> 24. august 2021 kl. 05:35
Til: Gwen <gconnolly@berkshirecountryday.org>
Hi,
thanks for the reply!
I only spoke with Ola on the phone a couple of times myselves.
(It turned out that I had an unknown god-mother, (Annikken Holmsen aka. Anna Holmsen), that I’d never met.
And Ola knew her address, (in Sweden), since she was his cousin).
But who was the exchange-program organised by then, (if it’s ok to ask).
In the ads in the Norwegian papers, it only says my mothers cousins name and address etc, (around 1996 and later), and no company name.
In a Norwegian dentist-journal, (that I found online), it says that my mothers cousin sent Norwegian pupils over to you as late as in 2004.
Ola’s wife Elin is also dead now, I read in a newspaper, earlier this year.
They had three daughters, (I read somewhere).
One of them have changed her name to Samasati, it seems.
I used to go to summer-school myself three summers in the 1980’s, but I wasn’t aware of that my relative Ola Ribsskog worked with language-holidays, so I went to the UK with EF and STS.
(My mother was an au-pair in the UK, in the 60’s, so that’s why I wanted to go the first summer, since my mother used to go to London quite often on holiday, bringing back gifts, etc).
I also tried to visit the USA, in 2005, (I took a flight from Frankfurt to Detroit), but was sent back to Europe, for vague reasons, (I’d say), by the airport-police in Detroit.
So I haven’t seen anything of America yet.
But there’s plenty to see in Europe, I guess.
I guess this exchange-program also could have been the idea of an earlier staff at your school, that maybe contacted my mothers cousin Ola, since he had earlier worked for Norstud.
Thanks very much for the reply!
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
tir. 24. aug. 2021 kl. 02:41 skrev Gwen <gconnolly@berkshirecountryday.org>:
Hello Erik,
I remember Ola quite well.
Sorry that I am not aware of his business activity related to the program.
Gwen Connolly
Business Manager
> On Aug 23, 2021, at 7:18 PM, Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Howdy,
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> I have genealogy as a hobby.
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> And I’ve found out that my late mothers late cousin Ola Ribsskog used to send Norwegian teenagers to your school, in the summers, (around 1996, and also later).
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> I was wondering if you know if this was part of the big Norstud-company.
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> Or if this was my mothers cousins own company, (and that he had a self-employed-business that was to do with exchange-pupils).
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> Thanks in advance for any reply!
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> Best regards,
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> Erik Ribsskog
