The Talking Traveller

I just finished the Melbourne-intensive McGuire course today. I was a 4-day course and we stayed in Hotel Y Elizabeth street. I surely learned alot from this course and the people involved. My eyes opened anew as I realised that one should never judge people on first impressions, and you should never understimate howpowerfull determination is. Yesterday and the day before we went out to do contacts in the street, this is where we walk up to total strangers asking them questions or disclosing that we are recovering stammerers. A stutterer in a wheelchair did 145 contacts, and had to stay out to 10:30pm at night to do it. Al my respect for you Paul, you did more than my 100. This may sound like madness, but believe me, there is method behind this. By doing this we can practise our breathing and speaking technique in real life situations. Melbourne is nothing like iv'e ever seen before (remember I come from South-Africa!). Hundreds of people on the street and hudreds of small shops everywhere, with street performers in between. I was so impressed by the Victoria market where you can by any type of seafood, meat , fruit, veggies and about everything else you want fresh. It is like the "Boere Market" I went to in Pretoria on saturday mornings, only 100 times bigger and better organized. I booked myself in a backpackers hostel and I'm spending my first nigt in a dorm. Today I want to take my first ride on a tram, tomorrow will be my first day where I'm not rushed and (almost) totally alone in a strange city. All these new and exiting things to reduce the effects of an old speaking habit.......hmmm. My total number of contacts stands on 507. 

Iv'e got a mobile number: +61(0) 43 9366577, if anybody would like to talk, anytime!