As you could have guessed, the China Team won’t make it to this Unicon.
I called them a few times, and did my best to help them organize,
but finally got the news that they can’t make it for financial and
logistic reasons.
On another note, I am sad to say that I won’t be able to make it either.
This is the first time since the foundation of the IUF that I am missing
a Unicon for work reasons. I am a speaker at the world’s major linguistic
conference (COLING/ACL http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au/) and then have
several business appointments in Taiwan.
My heart is with you as are my best wishes (I will be writing a greeting
for the participants). May Uniocon XIII be a great success!
JACK HALPERN
Executive Director for International Development
Former IUF president
International Unicycling Federation, Inc.
Website: http://www.kanji.org
The long-time attendees will miss you. Who’s going to do the speech in seven languages? We’ll probably need five different people to cover it…
For those of us that have been coming for a long time it’s less of a disaster; now we know there will be more of them! Too bad about China; disappointing for the riders there. One of these days the CUA will find somebody who knows how to use the Internet and speaks the same language as a Unicon host!
For those of you who don’t know, Jack Halpern is the founder of the IUF, and has been to all but one or two of the Unicons; in the early years always with the Japanese team in tow.