Hello from Portugal!

[Shane Gilchrist]

Val,

a lot of people still use the face sign for Portugal.

The Portuguese sign for Portugal is very unusual :-)

Adam ll describe it more :-)

Adam: keep the good work up!

Shane

2009/9/11 Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com>

> Forgot to send this to the list as well.
>
> Adam
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] Hello from Portugal!
> To: Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
>
>
> Well, the workshops (there were more than one!) are now done. All together
> I would say that there were about 50-60 people, most of which were Deaf. It
> was great. I have added their sign for Portugal which is nothing like what
> we have been talking about. But I´m not that surprise about that.
>
> It was really interesting to have it go from ASL to LGP as well as
> Portugese. So all together there were three interpreters(!) I tried to cover
> as much as I could as well as answer their questions. In fact, the morning
> group seemed to be curious about your life in general since you were in
> Denmark, but are an American. So I went to your valeriesutton site and they
> were even more amazed that you had health issues growing up, but worked to
> be a dancer. They thought that it was interesting that you pushed through
> challenges even as they have to. For that they have a lot of respect for
> you. (Amilcar who is one of the deaf interpreters for me wanted to make sure
> I remember to tell you that. SMILE)
>  I have told the two groups about the SW list, so I hope that they will
> post introductions and questions. I know that several of them are afraid of
> their English, but I told them they can write in Portugese -- or even have a
> video clip of them signing, but most don´t have webcams with their computer.
>
>
> Adam
>   On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> September 8, 2009
>>
>> Adam Frost (from Portugal) wrote:
>>
>>> I just wanted to let you all know that I am in Portugal safe and sound.
>>> The people here are very interested in SignWriting, and we have some here
>>> from Brazil. Tomorrow is the first workshop. Actually, now looking at the
>>> time it is after midnight, so it is today. It seems so weird since it is
>>> still Tuesday afternoon back home in the States. I guess I better get to bed
>>> so that I am not drooping while I am giving a workshop. Hope to drop a line
>>> now and then. Thinking of all my SignWriting friends. Good night.
>>> Adam
>>>
>>
>> Good night, Adam!
>>
>> And thank you for this message...it is so amazing to think of you writing
>> from Lisbon, Portugal...
>>
>> Have a wonderful workshop tomorrow (or today ;-)...
>>
>> Please send our best wishes to everyone there...
>>
>> If participants want to post a message to the SignWriting List, they are
>> very welcome to do so...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> PS. I had fun trying to write the sign for Portugal...the one that rubs
>> down the center of the face is a unique sign and I ended up putting six
>> different ways to write the sign in the Portuguese SignPuddle
>> Dictionary...take a look:
>>
>> Portuguese SignPuddle
>> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=33
>>
>> Here is one that I like, but I look forward to finding out how people in
>> Lisbon would prefer to write it...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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