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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hello List.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>As you know, I participated in a PJM and SW camp organized by
two Polish universities in Oscadnica, Slovakia. Oscadnica is a winter holiday
village close to the Polish border. The students chose that place because
Slovakia is cheap for us the Poles :-).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I was invited to the camp as a teacher of PJM and SW to
hearing students of the Universities of Wroclaw and Olsztyn. The students of
Warsaw were PJM beginners and the students of Olsztyn knew already some PJM. I
taught the Olsztyn group, and the Olsztyn group taught the Wroclaw group with
the help of a few Deaf people. There are two Deaf families, of which one has two
children aged 13 and 15 (both hard of hearing). Apart from PJM lessons I a
lecture on SW and two SW workshops. All the students and the Deaf were
especially interested in SW. And the teenagers liked SW very much, and they
learnt the SW basics very quickly, quicklier than the students did! And SW was
no new to the Olsztyn group. They knew about SW from the Internet and from my
friend Iwona Grzesiak who teaches PJM at the University of Olsztyn and who was
also my student at the Warsaw uni. Among the Olsztyn students there was Jacek
Dabrowski who learnt SW by himself and who is quite good at it, and he led one
of the SW workshops in Slovakia. I encouraged him to subscribe this List. Let's
hope he'll do. Although Jacek was from Olsztyn, he participated also in
the PJM "classes" for the Wroclaw group. Learning new signs, he wrote signs in
his writing book. I took a photo of that :-).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Jacek has also written a small handbook for SW in
Polish.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>During one workshop there were an exciting discussion about
writing signs. The students noticed that the Deaf sign the same signs
differently. For example, the sign for HEARING is signed with the index finger
bent or straight. The students argued there should be special rules established
so that each sign has one signed and written version. I didn't agree but that
all were new to them and the students (especially the beginners) could not
understand that there were so many variation of a PJM sign.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Lucy</FONT></DIV>
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