It's now 12:15 and I am sitting in the law library taking it all in. I have reviewed the reading list for my Family law course, looked at the questions on our first topic, Parentage and I realize that family law discussion topics have changed drastically since when I was last sitting in a Family law course. For example, one of the discussion questions is:
5. Is there an inherent difference between donation of an egg and donation of a sperm that justifies treating the right to know your parent (and indeed the allocation of parebthood) differently?
or
12. Should the parental status of a parent change when he/she changes his/her legal gender?
or
13. Under English Law (and the law of some US states) it is possible that a legal man (i.e. a man who changed his legal gender from female to male) gives birth to a child. Should he be the father or the mother of the child? What about his partner (male or female)?
The readings should be quite interesting.
Just to go backwards a few days, the weekend has been filled with new skills and opportunities.
There did not appear to be any sailboats readily available, only the punts previously descibed and some odd narrow things with paddles sticking out every which way. Having had previous success with the punts, I decided to try the narrow things. Apparantly, these narrow things require that someone actually push snd pull the sticks to make it go, rather than the far more relaxing wind power that I was used to. So with other like minded folk, I have begun to learn to push and pull the sticks in unison. These sticks have large spoons to make the boat go fast. I now know how those Vikings felt when the wind died and they had to resort to splashing sticks in unison. All kidding aside, I had a ball learning this new skill and intend to see if I can get good at it. It sure is good excercise!
Saturday night was the big fresher event, called a BOP. There was salsa lessons, and then a fabulous salsa band. We tried our best with these odd steps, and were about to head home, when Ole, the partying Swedish guy who really wants to be a Dane, invited us to the "after party". When we politely tried to say no, Ole told us the story of driving all over town in a taxi after store closing hours to find cups for his guests, and that we had to come and use them. Ole is a very persuasive guy (the life of the party), so off we trudged to his residence. There were about 60 people in his room, hallway and outside, drinking out of his cups. Strangely enough, the house next door to his residence in this lovely Cambridge residential neighbourhood was for sale! We were one of the first to leave - god knows how late the "after party" went on!
I have been saving the best news for last. We got a Darwin rock/blues band going. Ever since I met Jens, who showed me all his various guitars (including a vintage Fender stratocaster - eat your heart out Geoff!), we have both been trying to put something together, lacking only drums, another guitar and a singer. We finally found some drums in a cellar accesed with a trap door under the bar, Nikon found a great singer (Anja from Germany), Jens found another couple guitarists and had our first practice Sunday afternoon. What a thrill. Our first attempt sounded great, so we have our next practise on Sunday.
Susanne is off for a week, so I am going to try to get ahead on my reading. back to family law!
Here is the Fresher`s week schedule with the events attended by me highlighted.
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