Blog on being a disabled person, different cultures, diversity, equality, disability, travel, being diaspora Chinese and disabled travel.
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Its been sometime since I wrote almost a month. It has been a busy April. I went to Vancouver on the 11th and came back to Strasbourg on the 20th. I had a couple of days to finish our paper for web accessibility in China for STC special edition (for which...
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Cote d Azur I flew into Nice on Saturday 23rd . It was a smooth trip except for a slight incident. The attendant who came to help me off the plane at Nice asked me a question that had me floored. I have been to quite a few airports but this is the first...
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The Pope died yesterday. I must be old - I remember when he became the pope. I wasn't a Catholic yet. Europe was very far away to a young impressionable teenager who was in search of ..........life, spirituality, answers. I was hungry for life. Which...
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My local parish church has merged with another - its been happening for a long time. And most of the important services are held in the Christ Resusité which is rather inaccessible. I wanted to go to the Easter Virgil. It is the most dramatic of services...
Lire la suiteMidweek before Easter. Paula is coming tomorrow from London and I looked up public transport from Entzheim. I do not understand why there is not direct services from the airport to the city. There is a shuttle service that takes you to Baggersee tram...
Lire la suiteIt felt good that the sun came out and I did my homework out several times. Matt, my young French friend who helps me when I get stuck is ill with an angina. I was by the quay among the young busy students on Wednesday, in the Citadelle with the elderly...
Lire la suiteLast week seemed to have gone in a haze. I was at the computer looking up all sorts of things or doing French conjugaison and comprehension for my FLE. My homework seems to demand of me a certain knowledge of phonetics which I don't have. I am not able...
Lire la suiteIts been some time since I last wrote. I have been up to my ears doing 35 hours of French a week and coping with other stuff as well. I have started my distance learning course with l'AFPA. I have also been editing and translating bits of work (call for...
Lire la suiteI didn't have the courage to go to church today - Strasbourg seemed to be covered with a thin blanket of snow. Nothing like the snow in Massachusetts but quite impressive all the same. The trees looked liked they have had a sprinkling of icing sugar....
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Morpheous doesn't seem to be eating much-its not like him. And it seems to be time for him to go to the vet for that "special operation" castration. Anyway the vet's receptionist said there was a free slot. So I rang John and got ready to go with Morphy-not...
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