Friday was the only day, as it turns out, were I didn\u2019t have to do some sort of presentation. I listened to a lot of presentations, and didn\u2019t understand them all, but I did get some interesting new insights.<\/p>\n
Friday afternoon we went to the Acropolis museum, which was really nice — I finally had the idea I was in Athens! It was a guided visit, so I learned a lot about the Greek ancient history.<\/p>\n
Afterward, we had the official opening of the conference with a keynote speech from Johns Hopkins University. It was about brain matter, so I didn\u2019t understand a lot of it, but I wasn\u2019t the only one! Then we went to the rooftop garden for the reception (including dinner), and I had some very nice conversations with some doctors from the Netherlands and Italy.<\/p>\n
Somewhere halfway in the evening, professor Mary Robertson came up to me with a camera (she took a lot of pictures of me during the dinner yesterday as well!) and wanted us to be in a picture together, which is nice, because I really wanted that too! It\u2019s on her camera, though, so I don\u2019t have it yet. Then she took me to introduce me to a few big people of the world of Tourette, including the keynote speaker of before. And she took pictures as well!<\/p>\n
She\u2019s just so much fun — I really like her! Then the big news of the day: As I said before, they were trying to get my speech into the conference again, and I got a defined go! I don\u2019t know what time it will be, yet, it\u2019s either at the end, like I said before, or — hold on to your heads — right before the keynote speaker!!<\/p>\n
Keynote speakers are always the BIG people and everyone (about 250 people) tends to come to the keynote, even if they miss other presentations. Usually the keynote is in between breaks, because it\u2019s so important, but now they\u2019ve suggested that they\u2019ll cut the break by ten minutes, so I can do my speech and right after me, the keynote will come!<\/p>\n
Of course, it\u2019s not sure yet — they are going to ask the keynote speaker if he\u2019s OK with it, but if he is, I\u2019ll probably have an audience of about 200 people! So that\u2019s, well … nerve-wracking doesn\u2019t even cover it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friday was the only day, as it turns out, were I didn\u2019t have to do some sort of presentation. I listened to a lot of presentations, and didn\u2019t understand them all, but I did get some interesting new insights. Friday… Continue Reading