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I really do sleep when I can. I have insonima, 3 boys 16, 14 and, well 4 boys if you count my husband. We have been married 19 years and in addition to our boys we have 2 beagles, I am a full time teacher for a developmental preschool classroom at Attica Elementary, I also work 2 part time jobs (a personal tutor and at Teacher's Delight I am the Kid's Club teacher) I graduated from Purdue University in May 2009. Sleep? Yah right!
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- Hi, I am 38 years old. I have been married for almost 15 years to Richard. We have three sons Shawn is 12, Ryan is 10 and Mark is 8. When our youngest son entered school full time I went back to college (Purdue University) to get my degree in Elementary Special Education. I will graduate May 2009. I am taking it a bit slow (only 12 – 15 credit hours per semester) because our family is my priority. I also work part time as a teaching assistant/paraprofessional at a local elementary school and as an undergraduate teaching assistant for one of the classes on campus. I love to volunteer in our boy’s classrooms as often as I can, about once a week.
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Hi all, I wanted to share my excitement about the Rally to support the use of ASL by deaf children (people) on Friday and Saturday. I went both days and had a great time. I loved being able to show my support for the use of ASL for the deaf community. It was great to meet people in the deaf community. They all were so very nice. They knew they needed to sign slower for me, so whenever they were signing to me (or they knew I was part of the conversation) they would sign slower so I would understand. When they were signing to each other or for the video camera they would sign at the normal deaf speed, and I was left behind reminding myself that I still have a long way to go to be fluent in ASL. I am sure I could have asked what is that sign etc but I did not want to interrupt them or slow things down, because I felt all this was for them, and not for me. Also they would check with me to be sure I understood what they signed, and would resign or respell for me as needed. I asked one guy I just met John to have some help with the ASL 202 presentation we have coming up and he was very kind as he helped me and gave me suggestions to improve my presentation. He was offered a treat by another deaf person at the event while he was helping me and he said no, I am helping her now. Like I said they were all very kind.
Saturday I brought along my 3 boys (for those that do not know, I am a nontraditional student, I am older, married 14 years and we have 3 boys they are 11, 9 and 7). We taught our boys sign when they were babies and they each know some sign but not a lot, they know the manual alphabet pretty well and can sign maybe a dozen or two dozen other signs. They knew more when they were younger but they have not used it so they have forgotten it. My husband and I thought it would be a good experience for them to attend this Deaf rally. When I told the boys about it they were excited and wanted to come. We were there for about 2 hours on Saturday. The boys got to meet many members of the deaf community, some were deaf, and some had deaf members in their family. They got to show off a bit of their sign language, getting to introduce their selves to others etc. They meet many people, some were a 12 year old girl who is deaf and her parents (hearing), a mom (hearing) of a deaf girl who is attending Gallaudet, Ray (my ASL 101,102 instructor) Jill (my ASL 201 instructor) John (Jill’s husband who is also deaf) and many more. I think at one point I counted 28 people attending the rally, it was great to see that they came but I wish more people were there to support the rally specifically hearing people. I asked the boys if they liked the event as we were on the way home and they all said they did, that they loved it and had a great time. I think they were a bit nervous and worried as they signed to the others there because I know they all know the signs better and can sign them faster than they did today.
I had the same problem even though I have gotten all A’s in my ASL classes so far. I kinda worried and would forget a sign or use the wrong sign, when I KNOW better, like I signed paper when I meant school and I know better and one time I completely forgot the sign for ‘deaf’. I think it was just I was nervous as I was signing and having so many deaf people watching me, not that I thought they were judging me, but I still felt nervous. Maybe because I did not feel like I know ASL well enough, maybe because I know they all really know ASL very well but I am not as fluent as they are and for good reason. I just use sign in classes or for fun, with our boys on occasion etc, they (the others in the deaf community) use sign all the time, so I know I would not be as good as they are. I also kinda worried that my poor signing ability and being nervous messing up, forgetting a sign or using the wrong sign would look bad on Ray, Jill and Robin. They have all been great instructors and nice people. I worried the others (of th deaf community) would think, this gal does not know sign very well, she makes silly mistakes and does not know simple signs, and then think it was either because I was not smart or because they (the ASL instructors) were not good instructors. I hope they realize neither is the case that it just was I was silly and nervous and would forget or just use the wrong sign on accident, that I do know better.
Anyway, I really enjoyed participating in the Deaf Rally.
Gail Marie
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