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I get my first quiz back tomorrow, and my first test back on Monday. I guess we'll know then where I stand on the bell curve.
The weekend is shaping up quite nicely. Tomorrow I hang around Gallaudet, go explore DC on my own, do whatever after class. Then dinner, probably at Union Station, and the loooooong bus trek out to Glen Echo Park for the contra dance. I get a ride home but I have to leave early. Poo.
Saturday I see Nicole...maybe...if she ever gets back to me...and go to see Manny Hernandez, famed ASL storyteller, perform at ASLFest. That counts as my "go to a Deaf event" class requirement.
Sunday I see Catherine Elder, who I have not seen in...wow...way too long. Then there's another contra dance.
Maybe I won't go to the Friday contra dance. It will simplify things quite a bit.
I am sad that this ASL class is already almost half over. I want to come back next year for ASL V and VI. Or maybe ASL V and a conversation class? I want to come back and live in the dorms and get sick of the food. I'm really going to miss this place.
I hate being hearing. I mean, actually I really like being able to sing and listen to music and communicate easily with everyone--that's pretty swell--but I hate being the outsider. I hate how I'll never really belong to this community, how it'll always be a little harder for me to understand things. But I know being Deaf would be limiting, and I can't have it both ways. I guess I'll just content myself with learning all that I can about ASL and maybe trying to find a hot Deaf boy. We'll see.
I am really psyched for Village Harmony. The music will hopefully be really fun and the social dynamic--me and a bunch of mostly younger teens--will be good for the part of me that likes being wise and giving advice.
The weekend is shaping up quite nicely. Tomorrow I hang around Gallaudet, go explore DC on my own, do whatever after class. Then dinner, probably at Union Station, and the loooooong bus trek out to Glen Echo Park for the contra dance. I get a ride home but I have to leave early. Poo.
Saturday I see Nicole...maybe...if she ever gets back to me...and go to see Manny Hernandez, famed ASL storyteller, perform at ASLFest. That counts as my "go to a Deaf event" class requirement.
Sunday I see Catherine Elder, who I have not seen in...wow...way too long. Then there's another contra dance.
Maybe I won't go to the Friday contra dance. It will simplify things quite a bit.
I am sad that this ASL class is already almost half over. I want to come back next year for ASL V and VI. Or maybe ASL V and a conversation class? I want to come back and live in the dorms and get sick of the food. I'm really going to miss this place.
I hate being hearing. I mean, actually I really like being able to sing and listen to music and communicate easily with everyone--that's pretty swell--but I hate being the outsider. I hate how I'll never really belong to this community, how it'll always be a little harder for me to understand things. But I know being Deaf would be limiting, and I can't have it both ways. I guess I'll just content myself with learning all that I can about ASL and maybe trying to find a hot Deaf boy. We'll see.
I am really psyched for Village Harmony. The music will hopefully be really fun and the social dynamic--me and a bunch of mostly younger teens--will be good for the part of me that likes being wise and giving advice.