Okay, just going to catch up on everything I've done so far before Week...5 begins! This will be a fairly short post because nothing much has happened apart from Yerker's presentation and then the weekend!

I ended the previous post with saying that Yerker Andersson would be presenting 'tomorrow'. Well, tomorrow has come and gone.

I honestly have no idea what I can say about Yerker's presentation.

When I was growing up- I learnt about the WFD. I thought that WFD was an awesome organisation that was always fighting for deaf rights, an organisation that didn't rely on hearing people, an organisation that was founded on a strong desire for deaf...I don't know what I'm trying to s but what I'm trying to say is that I discovered that for many years, the WFD 'followed' the medical model, thinking that hearing people were the people to look up to, the ones to follow. The WFD board thought that they needed to be MORE LIKE hearing people rather than just wanting to be deaf. My image of the WFD was shattered but at least it's like what I imagined...NOW!

It was really good learning about the WFD from someone that was so involved in the organisation for so long.

This weekend was fairly relaxed, we had to 'fend' for ourselves, cooking and so on. We also watched movies and talked. Very relaxed. We have Vivien tomorrow and then Hilde Haualand from Norway. Hilde assigned us homework. We have to think about our life story using her questions as a guide.

· When and where were you born? What kind of place was it?
· What was your family like?
· Which school(s) did you attend? Where?
· Are there some important or outstanding events or memories in your life? What are these? Why are they important?
· What have you been doing the past few years?
· Where have you been the past few years? Why have you been there?
· Can you remember when/where you started to think about yourself as a Deaf person? How was it?

Enough for tonight

Ciao til next time

Kat xo