Antonia Forest Conference

[leapingirbis.livejournal.com]

The Antonia Forest Conference is rapidly approaching ... and as this is my very first non-work-related, non-professional, purely-voluntary conference EVER, I am starting to get slightly nervous. It occurs to me that I have no idea what sort of people go to such things. Will everyone there know one another except for me? Will they all be madly intellectual or greet one another with secret handshakes? If you meet people who are members of AF forums, will they identify themselves as such or are internet personas secret identities which are never to be revealed in Real Life?

Therefore my question - how many Trennels members will be at the conference? Does anyone know how many attendees there will in fact be? And if there is a special handshake - can someone let me know how it goes???

Comments

[leapingirbis.livejournal.com]

Australia - goodness! And I thought I was making quite an effort by coming over from Germany - clearly this is very low down on the scale of AF-devotedness!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so jealous of you all! The conference is right when I'm travelling with my 3 kids and graduate student between Rome and Amsterdam. I seriously considered rearranging my entire summer so that I could nip across the Channel for Antonia, leaving the kids with the grad student, but I just couldn't justify such madness. I hope that people will report on every possible detail. I will be with you in spirit!!
(This is Elizabeth, by the way, from an internet cafe in sweltering Rome)