Gentle October

I am confused. I usually hate October, one of the most depressing months, while you are in Denmark. I always remembered October as dim grey, wet, humid, sad and boring. October is one of the best-selling cinema months, but seems this year makes a exception. Today I sat outside reading newspaper about the earthquake in Pakistan - 1000 hospitals were destroyed by the quake. Sad, but what can we do? What can they do? Denmark already donated DKK 10 million and a few Hercules flights with the most necessary stuff. Back to Danish weather, and the temperature reached 19°C, that's very unusual. The weekend we were a lot outside playing a viking game while drinking cold beers. Saturday we had the very desired opportunity to cook our own food - we decided to cook some Thai-style curries. People ate a lot, it seems to everybody loves jasmine rice!

Today the Norwegian anthropologist Hilde Haualand had a presentation about her anthropological analysis on the big Deaf events such as Deaflympics and WFD congresses. I have had seen her presentation in Montréal two years ago, but today we had a unique opportunity to discuss and share with her. We had also short presentations about our backgrounds, and we are really different frome each other. Hearing parents or Deaf families, oral or bilingual primary education, when we became Deaf instead of deaf, and so on.