September 6

Up early for the conference, met several people I didn’t know during breakfast and made many more new friends throughout the day. The conference hall is set up theatre style with the seating descending to the stage area. Simultaneous interpretation in 3 languages allows almost everyone to hear the speeches as they are made, we all got a book of the speeches so we can go back and reread the ones that were of particular interest or ones that we missed. I met some people that I will see in Penza later this month or who know people that will be there.