Freezing cold and bored to death

[摘要] The only reason for my visit to Orlando was the meeting of editors of family physician journals but, being there, I promised myself to learn a few things and have a little fun. That was no easy task in such a huge Stalinist place as the Orange Convention Centre, running from one side of the centre to the other finding the lecture cancelled or often already finished. Too many sessions and too many boring speakers, but on Saturday afternoon when almost all congress visitors were elsewhere (Disneyland, the beach …), I found myself in one of the small rooms listening to interesting papers on intercultural communication. Outside the congress it was at least 30°C, but inside the air conditioning tried to simulate arctic temperatures. Maybe immigrants out of the tropics feel the same when they arrive in Europe: lonely and unable to listen because of physical difficulties.

[学科分类] 卫生学