Blog on being a disabled person, different cultures, diversity, equality, disability, travel, being diaspora Chinese and disabled travel.
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Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without going to the Marche de Noel here at Strasbourg and having some vin chaud and crepes. I visited Marisol at her stand in La Maison Rouge but she was very busy with customers.
Lire la suiteI had asked the GiHP people to come and get me to go to my ANPE meeting set up with AFPA(Adult Professional training.) They had set up a distance learning French course for me. We were in a class and a lady came in and gave us a form to filled. She also...
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This is the last course. Henri-Jacques Stiker was there with Cathy and we had an evaluation of sorts. I enjoyed this class most - people spoke what they felt. Some people spoke when they had not done so before. We had drinks afterwards in the bar across...
Lire la suiteYau Shun-Chiu works for the CNRS on linguistics of Chinese sign language. He spoke to us on the blind and deaf people in China. He gave some historical background, his experience is mostly based on Quangzhou he has contact with a school there where he...
Lire la suiteFor those who were wondering about my silence - I finally downloaded these from my laptop - I wrote them on the train!) Cathy Kudlick started the café philo sessions in Nov and this is the second. I am not sure if I could continue going. But there I was...
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This afternnon I had a meeting with Brian W from the University - I wanted a few answers about how to get my degrees into a kind of equivalent status. I've known Brian before - he's helped me by giving me access to the university's English department...
Lire la suiteI thought if I write a bit each day I wont have a mad rush for sundays.Today I went to the social worker to ask him about social services. I had a COTOREP form to fill about my disabled worker's status and registration. And I wanted to ask him about having...
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I nearly missed the train to Paris this Tuesday. However the SNCF staff at Strasbourg came up trumps - they got me on the train. I am supposed to be there half an hour before the train is due out but one thing or another I was delayed. And I had not got...
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Dominique, a French Alsacian wheelchair user, told me that I should attend a day of information about the law and the disabled at the CEP. He is a translator (French/ English and German) and I ve known him and his wife for some time. He also said that...
Lire la suiteI've decided that I will keep writing major blogs on Sundays but will add notes on other days.I found this item reported on Yanous -and from the BBC - A bike for the paralysed. People paralysed by spinal cord injuries could soon be able to go out cycling....
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