Argh once again!!!!!!

It has been eight days since I posted, not toooo shabby at all seeing that I DID say that I would try to post weekly!!! I realise eight days is not exactly a 'week' but it's close enough!!

I'm not actually clear on what we did last week, it was all a blur. I do remember that Christophe and Minna weren't here. I had to ask Gordon to refresh my memory. I haven't felt like myself for the last week. Just kind of not completely...I don't know but I actually started missing home a week or so ago...and I think that affected a lot of my thoughts and feelings. Only a few weeks until I go home. My family is counting the days, which is really sweet....

On Wednesday, we had a discussion about our language, Frontrunners Sign Language as we've come to call it and about languages in general. We watched a documentary showed on Danish television the other night. Ole had to interpret for us non-danish reading people. On a side note: My Danish is not improving much..I do have a wider 'reading vocab' but my writing vocab is out the window!!!

The documentary said that there are approximately 6000 languages in this world and in the next 100 years, one language will disappear every 14 days to end up with 3000 languages. They showed a lot of different languages from everywhere including Sign Language. They showed Australia! But not in the most positive light- the aboriginals of Australia, 90% of their languages were taken from them, they are only left with 10% of what they used to have. That was err, depressing. Since being here, I've heard so many depressing things about Australia. Some of it, I already knew but Australia being used as a bad example isn't exactly the loveliest thing!

Things such as:

* Cochlear implants
* The only 'deaf-related' stamp to come from Australia is a cochlear implant
* First country to let parents 'select' a hearing child rather than a deaf one through IVF
* Australian Aboriginals..

I have to say, at times I am ASHAMED to be an Australian. But I'm going off-track.
Back to the documentary, it was very touching to say the least. There was one man of this specific language...he was the only speaker left! Will that happen to sign language? Or will we work at increasing signers? I don't know, it kind of feels like that the Deaf community has just given up.....One of my goals, to... make them realise... giving up is not going to get them anywhere...

We(Ronan, Thomas, Sigrid, Ammy and I) also went to Horsens, a town about 20km from here so Ammy could get her hair done at the hairdressers. Ronan went off on his own to walk around. Sigrid, Thomas and I stuck together- I posted two boxes equalling 17.4kg home! WOW! I still have a lot of stuff left over so I might post a box home just before I go home. We had a nice walk around and ended up in a cafe chatting for a while until Ammy finished. By the time she finished, we'd missed dinner at Castberggård so we went to this pizza place where I had one of the best pizzas of my LIFE! OH MY GOD! Sigrid can verify this for me.. the other three had a...SALAD pizza, how weird!

We also played Hairdressers!!! I dyed Ronan's hair and helped cut Jerome's hair. Ronan and Jerome then added colour to the ends of my hair as shown...











On Thursday, Ammy and I started filming our tour of Castberggård. Our tour will include our house, our classroom, where we eat and so on. It will also include interviews with the staff here, I think it's going to be unreal! The tour is for us to take home to show our family and friends.

On Friday, we focused on our website..updating and polishing it a little. We didn't do much apart from that so no exciting news to report, I'm afraid.

The weekend was...HEAVEN. I basically stayed in the whole weekend, just relaxing. We didn't leave the grounds of Castberggård, just walked around and stayed in our rooms. Ammy did convince me to clean my room!!! SHOCK HORROR!!!

I can't remember what day but..it SNOWED! But the evil snow melted overnight! ARGH! Here's a picture of Ammy, Jerome and I outside. I got paranoid about the cold, so that's why I'm the only one..with a very big jacket on!!!!!

On Monday, we had a group 'session', where we had to write a word for each other and explain why we chose that word as well as a lot of other questions about the other people in our group. It was good, finally two hours of plain honesty!!!!

Since then, we have been preparing for this weekend. We're faciliating a workshop on Saturday for the Nordic Deaf Council as well as the 'Youth' version of the NDC...We're also performing on Friday afternoon to commemorate Liisa Kauppinen who is getting an award...So it's been busy busy preparing...I found some free time to write this! Lucky you!!!!

I have to go now, Ammy and I are continuing to film our tour. We then have to edit it really soon so it will be ready by the year of 2015!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!

Hugs and kisses...

Katrina in COLD Denmark xoxo