{"id":345,"date":"2014-04-04T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/?p=345"},"modified":"2017-09-20T18:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:17:19","slug":"san-antonio-was-great-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/2014\/04\/04\/san-antonio-was-great-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio was great fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u2013 Christina \u00c1vila de Menezes (PLD member) \u2013<\/strong><\/em><\/header>\n
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First of all, congratulations to everyone involved in making the ATA 54th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Conference such a great success. I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your hard work. I had a\u00a0great time at the conference. It was really fun to\u00a0see old friends\u00a0and make new ones<\/a>. San Antonio was a pleasant surprise. Very\u00a0friendly people, beautiful city and great weather!<\/p>\n

One of the\u00a0highlights<\/a>\u00a0for me was the new\u00a0app<\/a>. Another was the\u00a0new job exchange format, the R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Exchange, which turned\u00a0out to be a real happening! The new in-person format, with the\u00a0clear identification of who\u2019s who through the use of red and\u00a0green stickers, was very interesting and optimized the time we\u00a0had to meet potential clients.<\/p>\n

Another aspect I enjoyed, and it was just sheer luck having\u00a0it that way, was all the conference rooms being on the same\u00a0floor, making it much easier for us to move from one session to\u00a0another, visit the exhibit hall and mingle with our peers.<\/p>\n

The diversity of subjects covered by the sessions was also very\u00a0welcome, and I decided to take advantage of it, dive into new\u00a0waters and try different areas. It was really fun.<\/p>\n

The sessions I attended were very interesting, and even though\u00a0the speakers were focusing on serious topics, they managed to\u00a0do it in a lively way. I had a great time attending John Moffitt\u2019s\u00a0sessions, although I don\u2019t work in the oil and gas field. I also\u00a0enjoyed the session presented by Geoffrey Westgate. I\u2019ve been\u00a0working with terminology database software for such a long\u00a0time, but it never occurred to me how this kind of software was\u00a0created. The session was very enlightening. I also enjoyed other\u00a0sessions, like\u00a0Time for a New Hip<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also glad that my good friend Tania Penido practically dragged me to Harry Obst\u2019s session. I had no intention of attending it because it was about interpreting. Silly me; it would have been a shame to miss a great speaker and a true living legend. I learned a lot about life as an interpreter and about life itself in his session.<\/p>\n

At the end I realized that I had missed some sessions that were\u00a0in my initial schedule. To some extent, I guess this was due to\u00a0the emphasis on interpreting this year, which is not my field.\u00a0But I must admit also that the difference caught my attention\u00a0and I ended up leaving the supposedly known and useful aside.\u00a0I believe that after a number of conferences, some people tend\u00a0to look for something fresh, to expand their field of knowledge.\u00a0I\u2019m not saying that we shouldn\u2019t explore more deeply the\u00a0challenges of our profession, how to solve the problem of finding\u00a0the perfect option for hard-to-translate words, how to market\u00a0ourselves or how to charge for our work. What I\u2019m saying is\u00a0that sometimes it\u2019s refreshing to learn about other people\u2019s life\u00a0experiences, especially when these people end up being such\u00a0great storytellers, like Harry Obst and John Moffitt.<\/p>\n

Christina\u00a0is\u00a0a freelance translator based in Rio de Janeiro who\u00a0loves travelling, jazz, great food\u00a0and exquisite wine in the company of family and friends. She is ATA-certified for English into Portuguese.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2013 Christina \u00c1vila de Menezes (PLD member) \u2013 First of all, congratulations to everyone involved in making the ATA 54th\u00a0Annual Conference such a great success. I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your hard work. I had a\u00a0great time at the conference. It was really fun to\u00a0see old friends\u00a0and make new ones. San […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}