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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hello Tomas.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Your family name sounds so funny in Polish :-))
("flip-flop")</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Well, it's good you will cooperate with Honza, Martin and
Stepanka. Your team will be strenghtened :-). Maybe you will come to Poland some
day and become my student like Stepanka? :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Lucyna</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV>Hi Valerie, and others
;)<BR><BR>Yes, I know Honza and Martin. I am going to cooperate with
them.<BR><BR>I am going to study the Deaf studies. In the Czech Republic there
is a different system of enrolling to an university.<BR>Here in Czech, you
have to do a special exam and if you pass the exam you can study. But
sometimes there is a lot of applicants and only those applicants who get the
most points are accepted.<BR>Well, that's not always easy. Deaf studies here
in Czech are opened only every second year. In January the university wanted
to accept 15 students, but thanks to the number of applicants (144) and their
good knowledge of the Deaf culture, they increased this number to 30 students.
So I hope this year-class will be very strong and it would help to promote
situation of Czech Deafs (because of the well-educated interpretors, teachers
and linguists).<BR>I have done a written part of the exam and next monday I
will do a viva (oral). After the viva, I'll know about my acceptation
;)<BR>There are only two universities which are looking at the deaf people as
they are a minority culture with its own language. It is at the Charles
University (<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.cuni.cz/UK-1628.html">http://www.cuni.cz/UK-1628.html</A>)
where is Deaf studies and Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts where
is Drama education for the deaf.<BR>People in the Czech don't know about the
SignWriting or they are not interested in it. If I'm accepted I'm going to
promote SignWriting at the university.<BR>I know, there are more applicants
interested in SignWriting (For example Stepanka, who was in Poland and she met
Lucyna there), so I hope these applicants will be accepted with me ;)<BR><BR>I
am 24 next week on sunday. I work as a software developer.<BR>I became
interested in the Deaf culture year and half ago. I enrolled a czech sign
language course. After that I've met a lot of people and became more
interested. Honza and I, we made up webpages about the Deaf and about sign
language: <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.ruce.cz/">http://www.ruce.cz/</A> (sorry, not in english
yet)<BR>Year ago, I went to California School for the Deaf, Fremont for 4
months to volunteer and to see a different culture and to learn a little bit
of ASL. And I have been preparing myself for studies since
december.<BR><BR>There is a lot of issues with SignWriting, where I can
participate...<BR>- translation of english materials and manuals about
SignWriting<BR>- application of SignWriting on the czech sign language
(creation of a dictionary to show that it is usable)<BR>- promotion
SignWriting in czech sign language linguist's quarters and in the Deaf
culture<BR>- publishing news, cartoons, fairy-tales, books and poetry in
SignWriting<BR>- teaching SignWriting at the schools for the deaf<BR>-
creation of a Czech language learnbook and other learnbooks written in
SignWriting<BR><BR>Well, I would like to work with other people, who are
interested in SW... Honza, Martin, Stepanka and others.<BR><BR>I hope you know
more about me now ;o)<BR><BR>Tomas Klapka</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>