London and back

Well I was in London over the weekend, attending a conference.  Was very good, but rather tiring. I saw a bunch of friends from the US as well as Canada and saw some colleagues from this side of the pond I have not seen in over 10 years!

I find my BSL skills improving pretty rapidly, apparently there was a good base to build on from the last time I was here. Much of the conference was in BSL, and I found I did not have to reply on the captioning or the voice interpretation. Also, I had dinner on Saturday with a group of Irish folks, some of whom were using BSL, others Irish Sign (yes, it is different...fingerspelling is one-handed like ASL, but there are differences as well.)

I still have the problem of 'linguistic bleeding'...when I try to sign ASL now I find BSL signs leaking in. I will be doing some ASL interpreting over here; it will be interesting to see if I can keep the languages separate in very separate contexts as opposed to situations where both languages are used. I will try to post some videos here where I sign so at least I can TRY to keep them separate!

Off to make dinner. 

Later!