Cape Cod Day 5
Posted By Kathleen David on August 24, 2007
Today is the last day of the conference. It has been a good time for all of us. Peter is having a blast teaching. Ariel is enjoying both her classes and spending time with her classmates. Caroline has been grooving on sitting outside and painting or sculpting with clay or playing with her toys on our porch. And I have been having a great time just being here. It is nice to slow down the noise for a while. I am starting to get antsy so I know that it is time for me to go back to the world I normally dwell in. But that is not a bad thing either.
Yesterday I took a seminar on the art of Translation from Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais. It was incredibly interesting and I will never look at a translated text the same again. We discussed the difficulties both text and culture that come into play when you are either translating or adapting a literal translation. I was grooving on pushing my intellectual muscles again. It was like dusting off a forgotten skill and bringing it back into play. At heart I am an academic. I was raised by academics and that is how my brain works best. This sort of conference is a great place for me to play and think.
Today Paul Levitz is coming to talk to Peter’s class about comic book publishing and being published in comic books. It will be a nice capper to the week for the students. Caroline and I have a whole lot of crafty stuff planned and at some point she want to go to the playground and play (it just has to dry out from the massive fog we had this morning). Ariel has one more class and then I think is going to spend the afternoon with her friends playing games at the picnic tables. She sort of got the experience of a sleep-away camp with her family. Heck, they even have bug-juice in the dining hall.
I am so grateful to Jackie and her crew for having us at this conference. Y’all are great!
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