Frontrunners Party at Copenhagen
The Frontrunners Party weekend in Copenhagen begin with a trip to Tivoli. About 15 Deaf gathered together for dinner in pizzeria with couple of boozes. We then walked to Tivoli, Christmas Special which was opened on November 15th. Iva had just missed the opportunity while she was in Copenhagen a few weeks ago.
I have to
say that Tivoli had captured my eyes very much with fantastic Christmas decorations and lights. I do feel for Iva which I would love to have by my side scrolling around the place. Instead, to live things up, Christo from Germany and I drank Danish warm rum that got me dizzy a bit!
I filmed the trip; it was a good shooting because the lighting in the night was awesome. We then met up with Mette Sommer who was a lecturer in Frontrunners project, and went to pub. We met Danish Deafies. I was too tired to continue, because I got some responsibilities for the following day in the Deaf Club.
We were staying in the same hostel we stayed a few weeks ago, which
is 5 star, great firm beds. I was put in a room of 8 with two Belgian girls, one is an interpreter. On Saturday, Minna and I walked together to the Deaf club and prepared for the workshop. I took an opportunity to be the “speaker” at the whole day. The members of Frontrunners team led the workshops, while they are doing it, Katrina took 10 people, one by one, to be filmed by me. The question was given to them was “What does Deaf Awareness mean?” I decided to make that film because, earlier, Ole showed us a tape about Danish Deaf people’s responds on the same question in 1982. I wanted to see if there are some differences.
I am hoping to upload the clips to the website shortly.
The workshop end
ed successfully with heated debates on two topics (from workshops). We all went to Thai restaurant, just round the corner of the Deaf Club. We returned to the Frontrunners Party with Happy Hour (in fact, it is for half an hour) at 9pm. Many of us grabbed plenty of ammo to last us for the night.
We chatted and drank all night until 3am. It was the end of the Frontrunners Party. It was a great weekend. On Sunday, Lars Knudsen, a well-known presenter for the Deaf TV in Denmark invited Minna and I to stay at his place for most of the day to relax before meeting up with Filip to go back to Castberggaard at 8pm. While I was there, I took an opportunity to watch BBC Prime on TV with English subtitles. It has been ages since I saw English text on a TV screen. The last time was in the 3rd week of June. I watched Eastenders for an hour and half. So many stories had changed. It made me think about Wolverhampton and the British lifestyle!!
It won’t be a long until I see Iva and visit my family in the UK soon. Times sure flew fast. Back to Castberggaard for another week!
I have to
say that Tivoli had captured my eyes very much with fantastic Christmas decorations and lights. I do feel for Iva which I would love to have by my side scrolling around the place. Instead, to live things up, Christo from Germany and I drank Danish warm rum that got me dizzy a bit!I filmed the trip; it was a good shooting because the lighting in the night was awesome. We then met up with Mette Sommer who was a lecturer in Frontrunners project, and went to pub. We met Danish Deafies. I was too tired to continue, because I got some responsibilities for the following day in the Deaf Club.
We were staying in the same hostel we stayed a few weeks ago, which
is 5 star, great firm beds. I was put in a room of 8 with two Belgian girls, one is an interpreter. On Saturday, Minna and I walked together to the Deaf club and prepared for the workshop. I took an opportunity to be the “speaker” at the whole day. The members of Frontrunners team led the workshops, while they are doing it, Katrina took 10 people, one by one, to be filmed by me. The question was given to them was “What does Deaf Awareness mean?” I decided to make that film because, earlier, Ole showed us a tape about Danish Deaf people’s responds on the same question in 1982. I wanted to see if there are some differences.I am hoping to upload the clips to the website shortly.
The workshop end
ed successfully with heated debates on two topics (from workshops). We all went to Thai restaurant, just round the corner of the Deaf Club. We returned to the Frontrunners Party with Happy Hour (in fact, it is for half an hour) at 9pm. Many of us grabbed plenty of ammo to last us for the night.We chatted and drank all night until 3am. It was the end of the Frontrunners Party. It was a great weekend. On Sunday, Lars Knudsen, a well-known presenter for the Deaf TV in Denmark invited Minna and I to stay at his place for most of the day to relax before meeting up with Filip to go back to Castberggaard at 8pm. While I was there, I took an opportunity to watch BBC Prime on TV with English subtitles. It has been ages since I saw English text on a TV screen. The last time was in the 3rd week of June. I watched Eastenders for an hour and half. So many stories had changed. It made me think about Wolverhampton and the British lifestyle!!
It won’t be a long until I see Iva and visit my family in the UK soon. Times sure flew fast. Back to Castberggaard for another week!
posted by Gordon @ 9:01 PM
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