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intellectual orgasm, so to speak [Mar. 4th, 2007|11:03 pm]
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Ah, the thrill of understanding!
There is nothing better than it. Not love, not money, not sex, not anything. Standing there at work today, talking with German, having a conversation however slow and halting it was, in Spanish. Not in Spanish, translated to English, translated back to Spanish. All in Spanish. No inner translation involved. Just thinking in Spanish. Knowing what he was saying. Knowing what to say.

It's so ephemeral that as soon as I take a step back to admire it, it's gone. I lost the connection and a torrent of meaningless Spanish washes over me, and I have to ask him to repeat it, or I start code-switching and answer him in English. It takes a lot of concentration, and if you let up for one second you've lost it. I went to an ASL Live Lab for Sign Language class, where some Deaf people come in and tell stories and talk with students. One guy was telling a bunch of stories about where he worked, and I was catching most of it even though he used a ton of words I didn't know. I started to relax, and then realised that I was just staring at his hands moving, and wasn't taking anything in. I can't understand Spanish or ASL in the same way I understand English, effortlessly. It takes a lot of work, but with exceptional reward.

It's like the lightbulb going off, constantly. It's like when I'm the first person in my math class to realise that the volume of a cylinder is the area of the circle, times its height. Like an infinite number of circles stacked on top of each other. When I realise that the surface area of a sphere is the derivative of the volume of a sphere, because it's the change in slope and antiderivative is the area under a cuve. It's like a million little "a-hah!" moments for every word I hear and every sentence I say.

Of course the Mexican guys at my work are still mostly jerks, but you can't choose the people you have to interact with. And it was a little annoying, because German kept telling me to repeat the things that I said to his brother Nicolas. "Nico, Nico, preguntale que esta haciendo!" he would say, to get me to say again that I was tirando la basura. Oy. They're all really tickled to death over however little Spanish I can speak.

Anyway. One of the girls at school tells me there might be another little Spanish-speaking chiquitito at the elementary school that we could help tutor. Yesica moved away some time ago, and I need another dose of adorable, amirite?

*sigh* Sunday night. Where did the weekend go, hm? Who stole it from me? Am I really going to school tomorrow?

~Joy contemplates.
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[Feb. 24th, 2007|06:54 pm]
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Really totally awesome obscure languages I want to learn for no other reason than they sound ridiculously cool:

Persian
Zulu
Guaraní
Icelandic
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Zamenhofa tago; Pensoj pri E-o | Zamenhof day and some thoughts about Esperanto [Dec. 15th, 2006|03:51 pm]
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Hodiaŭ: la 15a de decembro; la naskiĝtago de LL Zamenhof; Zamenhofa Tago. Hodiaŭ, laŭ ELNA, oni skribu dulingvan ĝisdatigon.

Nu, mi ja scias, ke neniuj vi miaj taglibro-legantoj komprenas esperanton... sed estus bona praktiko por mi, ĉar mi ne skribis ion esperantlingvan por longa tempo.

Antaŭ...mi ne scias...du jaroj?? Ĉu vere tiom longa tempo? Ĉiukaze, antaŭ longa tempo, mi ekkonis esperanton. Mi prilegis pri ĝi, kaj min interesis. Mi aĉetis filmon "Inkubo", kun William SHATNER, kaj tio min amuzis multe. Tiel mi eklernis esperanton.

Mi volis lerni esperanton ĉar mi estas pigra -- vere! Mi volis lerni lingvon, ĉar laŭ mi ĉiuj lingvoj estas interesaj kaj mi volas lerni ĉiujn. Tamen, lerni nacian lingvon ete timigis min: ĉu tio ne estas ege malfacila celo? Kiam mi ekkonis esperanton, kaj legis pri ĝia (ŝajna) simpleco - neniuj ekceptaĵoj, neniuj malregulaĵoj, ĉio de tuta simpleco - mi decidis lerni ĝin.

Sed tio ne estas tiom interesa, mi supozas. Ĉu ne?

Kaj jes, mi parolas planlingvon (fakte, mi nun scias du - mi lernas la usonan gestlingvon) - sed mi ne estas tiom naiva aŭ idealista, ke mi kredu, ke esperanto estos vera tutmonda lingvo. Per esperanto, jes, mi parolas kun homoj de aliaj landoj, multaj kiuj ne parolas la anglan kaj sen esperanto neniam mi renkontus. Esperanto estas vivanta, sed malgranda. Esperanto apartenas sole al la esperantistoj - la tuta mondo neniam zorgas pri ĝi.

Sed tio sufiĉe plaĉas al mi. Esperanto estas komunumo, al kiu mi apartenas. (Pli-malpli.) Mi ŝatas scii tian belan lingvon, kaj povi kompreni bonan literaturon, interesan poezion kaj bonegan muzikon (Persone estas vere, laŭ mi, unu el la plej bonaj rok-bandoj kiujn mi aŭskultis iam ajn).

Mi ne legas aŭ skribas aŭ aŭskultas tiom ofte kiel antaŭe (aliaj aferoj estas pli interesaj aŭ gravaj laŭ mi nuntempe - nome taskoj lernejaj, laboraj, miaj amikoj, koramiko, ktp.), sed ankoraŭ mi ŝatas esperanton kaj mi certe ne hontas pri scii ĝin. Mi ne kredas en la fina revo de esperanto, sed mi kredas en esperanto kaj mi ŝatas ĝin kiel ĝi estas: interesa, sed esotera lingvo.

~Ĝojo

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Today; December 15; the birthdate of LL Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto; Zamenhof day. The ELNA website is trying to get everyone to write a bilingual entry today.

Okay, I know none of my journal readers understand Esperanto... but it'll be good practice for me, because I haven't written anything in Esperanto in a long time.

I don't know when it was... two years? Really that long ago? Anyway, some while ago, I first learned about Esperanto. I read about it and it seemed interesting to me. I bought the movie Incubus, with William Shatner (an old horror movie filmed in really, really horrible Esperanto), and that was really funny. So I decided to start learning Esperanto.

I wanted to learn it because I'm lazy, really. I wanted to learn some language, because I think language in general is interesting and pretty much want to learn them all. Still, the idea of learning a full 'real' language intimidated me: a daunting task. When I read about Esperanto, and its (seemingly) simple structure - no exceptions, completely following the rules, everything really simple - I decided to learn it.

But that's not really too intesting, I guess, is it?

So yes, I speak an "artificial language" (actually, two now - I'm learning ASL) - but I'm not so naive or idealistic to think that Esperanto will ever become a real worldwide language. Through using Esperanto, yes, I've talked with people from other countries, many of which do not speak English and without Esperanto I'd never have met. Esperanto lives, but it is tiny. Esperanto is for the Esperantists, and the rest of the world doesn't worry about it.

But I'm okay with that. Esperanto is its own community, which I belong to. (More or less.) I like knowing such a beautiful language, and being able to understand its literature, interesting poetry and great music (Persone, in my opinion, is really one of the best rock bands I've ever listened to).

I haven't read or written or listened to anything in Esperanto as often as I used to (other things are more interesting or important to me these days - namely work for my school and my job, my friends, boyfriend, etc.), but I still like Esperanto and I'm not ashamed of knowing it, by any means. I don't believe in the ultimate goal of Esperanto, being that everyone would speak it as a second language and be able to communicate, but I believe in Esperanto itsel and I like it for what it is: an interesting, if esoteric, language.

~Joy
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[Dec. 15th, 2006|12:43 pm]
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:o Hodiaux! Mi preskaux forgesis; sed mi gxin vidis sur la [angla] Vikipedia bonvenopagxo: Hodiaux estas la Zamenhofa Tago!

Mi skribos plu poste. Mi ne povas skribi multe en lernejo.

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Today is Zamenhof day! I just saw it on the Wikipedia frontpage.
I can't write much right now because I'm at school, but I'll write more later.
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[Dec. 9th, 2006|09:57 pm]
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Hee. One of the Mexicans at work is working on his English. He showed me his book - INGLES: RAPIDO Y PRACTICO. While I'm eating my dinner and reading Cat's Eye for English, he's filling in the exercises in the book and learning "skert" (falda) and "tai" (corbata).

"Buena suerte," I tell him.
"Buena suerte, thank you, amiga," he says. "Good look?"
"Good luck."
"Ah, good luck. Thank you, amiga."
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[Dec. 4th, 2006|08:59 pm]
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Hace tres (casi cuatro) años que estudio español, y ¡ya no puede decir nada! Seriously. Los mexicanos en mi trabajo sí saben que yo hablo un poco de español, pero creen que yo sé casi nada. Me dicen "¿Cómo estás, amiga?" (o en caso de uno, extraño tipo muy viejo, "¿cómo estás, baby?") y les contesto "Bien", pero nunca puedo decir más y nunca puedo comprenderles cuando ellos dicen más.

Soy la mejor de mi clase, en la escuela... but then again the standards are not set very high. No importa que yo pueda hablar o comprender español; solo importa que yo siempre haga la tarea.

Y la tarea es muy fácil.

It's just frustrating. I'm in the process of setting it up with Mr. Ammerman so I am taking the AP test (even though I won't get an "AP Spanish" credit or a weighted grade, I'll get the college credit if I do well on the test), but right now I wouldn't have a chance in hell with it. I have all these resources at my fingertips, but it's no use to me if I can't understand anything that's being said.

Meh. XP
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[Nov. 3rd, 2006|10:19 pm]
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Is there any greater punishment, to one who's been taking sign for 5 weeks, than to send them to a silent dinner?
Oh, but it was fun. One of the girls from my class showed up, thank goodness, and then a guy who takes Intermediate ASL who used to have our teacher, who introduced us to some people.

This guy we were talking with was getting so frustrated with us. Heh. It pretty much came down to him fingerspelling individual words, it was horrible. Most people were pretty patient though.

There's such a difference in the signing I saw tonight from what I usually see. I always see hearing-to-hearing, teacher-to-student or student-to-teacher. Even between two people who know the language, a deaf person and an interpreter, it's different from what was going on tonight. Watching two people talk in their common native language, so fast and fluid it's all a blur.

I have a feeling that ASL class is going to be somewhat irritating after this. Like when I started reading stuff and listening to music in Spanish, and the summary grammar lessons didn't mean much to me anymore. After experiencing the 'real' language, classroom stuff becomes a bore.

Buuut enough of that depressing stuff. I'm going to watch some more vblogs.
Oh, one more thing: you know what's funny? When I'm looking through signing vblogs, and I watch one and it's in BSL or Auslan or something and I don't notice it at first. "Whaaaat? They're moving their hands, but they're not saying anything!"
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So this is higher education, then? [Oct. 19th, 2006|10:29 pm]
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History teacher:
"Are you being followed?
"...by students, I mean.
"I meant, there's a new stalking class here and they're doing their midterm."

I got an A- on my history paperrrrr! :) I worked my butt off on that thing, and the teacher doesn't give many As.

Tuesday in Sociology we talked about Sapir-Whorf. :]]
And the teacher was talking about how Angel and Devil's Food Cake are racist terms. It was the biggest load of crap I've heard in quite some time.

Today in Sociology we played Monopoly.
Yeah. Monopoly and The Game of Life.

Then I had to meet up with some people in my ASL class to practice for the midterm.
Speaking of which...
ASL club has increased my vocabulary triplefold, if not more. Hooray!

As I said in that, I haven't been home all day and I'm really really tired. But as I also said (or tried to say), something really cute happened today too.

During my free bell (when I normally work on Journalism stuff and/or screw around on the computer), Jessica and I went over to the elementary school to help Yessica.
She's the cutest thing on Earth, have I mentioned that yet?

So I had a post-it note out for her and she was drawing stuff. Jessica was trying to get her to say the letters and Yessica started writing something on the paper.
'choe', it read.
Choe?
She pointed to me.
Say it quickly a few times. Choe, Joy, Joy, Choe.
Golly she's cute. *grin*

Okay so now I am tired and hungry and I have an English paper to work on and also eat and shower and presumably I'm going to sleep at some point after that. I guess.

~Choe
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Things, which happened, in the life of the writer, earlier on this date and things which will happen in the life of the writer at a later time. [Oct. 18th, 2006|04:16 pm]
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I just got back from helping Yessica. She's doing good with the letters we're teaching her, though I'm not entirely sure she gets it (she tries to call a foot 'frog', because on our flashcards it goes A, apple, B, banana, and F is for frog.).

She loves the hokey pokey though.

I was wearing my new shirt today (because come on, all the cool kids are doing it. And by 'all the cool kids' I mean Paula and Paula's friend Bethany.), and when I walked in to the elementary classroom the kids saw me and went nuts.
"Miss Joy, we're reading about cows and where milk comes from. The children see your shirt," the teacher explained.
I was amused.

One more thing of interest (...to me, not necessarily to anyone else). Jessica told me to tell Yessica to practice. I took a split second to think about it (it takes me a moment to 'switch'), and by the time "Ah...p- practica" came out of my mouth, my hands were already signing PRACTICE, as if that would get the idea across easier.

Can you even imagine anymore what it's like being illiterate? How can you keep information, if you can't write it down? How can ideas be transmitted when people are away from each other (outside of the room, across the miles, across the years even)? How much reading and writing is a part of my life, I can't even fathom a time when these thoughts and concepts and sounds were just lines and squiggles to me.

Think about all the steps you go through, reading the simplest sentence. The letters stand for sounds, the sounds come together and form words, the words stand for meanings in your head and combined with these other words, eventually you come out with something that means something. Something that can show you someone else's thoughts, or even change the world.

It's pretty amazing.

Mr. Ammerman asked me today about the AP test for Spanish. I was caught by surprise because I'd pretty much given up on doing that and hadn't thought about it for weeks. But I told him that if he can get it set up, I might as well give it a shot. It's another $80 of fees but that's well worth getting another credit under my belt, another class that I won't have to pay for next year.
That is, if I can do well on it. I may be one of the best people at Spanish in my class, but compared to students in other areas, I'm at least a year behind if not a lot more. And even if I know everything there is to know, it's a lot of thinking on my feet which I'll have to work on.

So that's that. Now I get to go off and get myself frustrated at the UCC library... have to practice with my group for the ASL midterm, and one of my group members is really bad at it... mutter mutter mutter.

~Joy
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hoooo jes. [Oct. 13th, 2006|03:34 pm]
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Jen, kion havas mi! ^^

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blah blah blah [Oct. 10th, 2006|12:00 am]
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[Spirits | rejuvenated]
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So like I was saying before, staying home today was a good decision. I caught up on a lot of stuff I needed done, I reduced a lot of stress on myself and I took some nice naps. Think of it as a 'mental health day'.

I still went to work today, and it was a refreshing change because I don't think I've ever worked a Monday night before. It was very very slow and I'm used to working weekends when it's crazy and I feel like exploding.

Savannah was there with some more notes from Jorge for me to translate. They're really cute, you can tell he's really lusty crazy about her. "Te ves tan linda, desde te vi no e dejado de pensar en ti"
That's how he writes, too. No accent marks, and all the Hs are dropped. And his spelling is really bad. As bad as it's possible to misspell words in Spanish, anyway.

Today most of the people in the back learned that I knew some Spanish. It was hilarious to see because it was easy to tell how surprised they were. One of the women, Eloisa, complimented me on my Spanish. :)

You know what I have a bad habit of doing? Responding to Spanish questions in English. I do it all the time in class and I did it tonight too.

Got the proofs for my senior pictures today. Some of them are okay, some are really terrible, and there is not a genuine smile in the whole set of them. I'm not good at getting photographed, I guess.

How about that Art History work, hm? Better get starting on that.

~Joy has read a lot of nice languagey stuff today... One book for ASL, and one for her language-education-themed SEAP.
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Some languagey stuff [Oct. 5th, 2006|11:24 pm]
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Here. Out of every room in my house, I think the kitchen is the only one with a bright enough lamp for my camera to work well. Meh.

Some of the people in my English class are getting really enthusiastic about signing. Each time the day after I go to ASL Club or class, I teach them something and they suck it up like a sponge. It's strange. I taught them POPCORN and SEA TURTLE and one of the girls taught them to her entire volleyball team. It's nice teaching to people that want to learn.

Jessie says I'm good at it, too. That I get really enthusiastic about it and stuff.
Anyway teaching the stuff to other people reinforces what I've learned into my own mind.

I've contacted the library recently, too. I'm on my way to setting up teaching an Esperanto course there, as part of my SEAP (Senior Exit Action Project...it's dumb and it's required to graduate so I might as well have fun with it).
:D

~Gxojo instruos kurseton de Esperanto kaj forte penos ne mortigi la lernantojn aux sin mem.
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Amazing how much you can say on such a limited vocabulary [Oct. 2nd, 2006|06:31 pm]
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Here's a story for you. I went to ASL Club today and we played a vocabulary-building game. We all got in a circle and the first person would sign, "Today I went to the mall and I bought X." The next person would say, "I went to the mall and bought X and Y." Then the third person said X and Y and Z, and so on.
So this one girl said she bought pizza. I learned a whole bunch of signs today, mostly food and animal words. In the huge set of vocab were the words PIZZA and SNAKE. I've looked it up in a dictionary and it's different, so it may be a regional sign, but they way she signed PIZZA was with bent V fingers moving down in a Z shape. The sign for SNAKE is bent V fingers coming out from the mouth, like fangs, and zigzagging downward.

So I thought she said she bought a snake at the mall, and I was confused. Then again, one of the other girls signed MONKEY.

That's my 'amusing anecdote' for the day. Now I don't have to pretend to be funny for another whole 24 hours.
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[Oct. 2nd, 2006|01:08 pm]
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Whaaat!
This is not my fault. I'm not even on my own computer.
But on Boingboing, there are ads for this:
http://esperanto-usa.org/?q=node/354

:]]]
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No te vayas por un minuto, bienamada, porque en ese minuto te habrás ido tan lejos que yo cruzaré toda la tierra preguntando si volverás o si me dejarás muriendo. [Oct. 1st, 2006|10:43 pm]
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Do you find it odd that I consider the weekdays more of a vacation than the weekend, because I hardly ever work then?
The sleeping-in thing is pretty nice though. Zzzz.

Today I had more adventures in español with that guy who was writing stuff last night (his name is Jorge). He was hitting on Savanna, but he doesn't speak any English (or if he does, veryvery little. I haven't heard him say anything) and she doesn't speak any Spanish.
So you know, she comes over to the register area calling "Joo-ooy! What's he saying?"
So they were basically writing notes back and forth to each other, myself acting as the translator. "Creo que eres guapo, pero no puedo entenderte." "Eres linda tambien, y quiero que salgamos. Dame tu numero de telefono para ablarnos [sic]". And so forth. It was amusing.

I have school tomorrow? You have to be kidding me. Ay mi...

~Joy would kill for power over time right about now...
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my cat where? [Sep. 29th, 2006|12:44 am]
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ASL class #2. We didn't actually learn anything today, just did some fingerspelling exercises and stuff, but I wanted to make a video anyway. So I'm talking about my cats and TMBG. I also introduce myself no less than three times.
It's still way too dark. I turned on more lights this time, but still it looks like I'm recording by candlelight. -_-

Anyone know any applications I can use to edit the brightness/contrast of MPEG videos?

So like I said, we did a lot of fingerspelling today. Which is good, because I need practice. We got into pairs to spell words and I was wearing my Scrabble shirt and my partner signed Q-X-W-V-W-Z-V, hah. XD

Someone also brought up the parallels between the Spanish-speaking immigrant situation here and the cultural importance that ASL has in the Deaf community. Because really, how much difference is there between hearing people who've tried forbid sign and those people around here always going "Speek Inglish beaner, huhuh"? And aren't both equally entitled to materials in their native tongue, and access to an interpreter?

I've got my earplugs in. I think I've mentioned this before, but one of the papers we have to write for the class is a reflection about spending an hour in public with earplugs in. So tomorrow night when we're hanging out at Newport I'm going to be pretending to be deaf. I got the earplugs today.

They don't work very well, but they do block out enough sound. I don't completely lack my hearing, but I probably am hearing the same amount that my mom or Jessie can hear with their hearing aids out. It's peaceful.

It must be kind of nice sometimes, to just shut the world off.

I'm feeling this sort of looming dread about the weekend. I'm basically working from 2pm until closing both days. Guuuh...

But other than that things are going well. I guess.

~Joy has nothing else to write
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taH pagh taHbe'... [Sep. 22nd, 2006|09:44 pm]
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A documentary on the tlhIngan Hol, Klingon language. Apparently there's also a documentary on Mike the Headless Chicken. Was that thing ever actually refuted or confirmed?

Work sucked today. Hopefully things will be quieter tomorrow.
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[Sep. 21st, 2006|10:53 pm]
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Whee.
This is what I learned today. :3
It's ugly and dark but if you're Warren or Lupie then you can probably guess what I'm trying to say. 'First day of sign language lookie what I can do!' It's like the freshmen in their first week of Spanish, running around yelling 'Como te llamas?!'

Anyway.
It's coooool. *grin*
The teacher isn't deaf, but for the first part of the class she refused to speak. It was so-so-so quiet. To resort to a cliche and a horrible play on words, the silence was deafening.

One advantage of a signed language is that you can speak and sign at the same time. So, while whenever Sr. Ammerman tries to give our class directions in Spanish everyone responds with "whaaa?" and he has to repeat himself in English, the ASL teacher (I haven't learned any of the college teachers' names yet. Probably because it's not really that important.) can talk in English and she signs at the same time. You end up picking up things, by watching her talk and sign.

So the two classes I had today were ASL and also Sociology. Between the two, I'm going to have to:
-Spend an hour in earplugs
-Spend an hour at some sort of deaf community gathering (they hold monthly dinners at some nearby malls and coffee shops and stuff)
and
-Spend 10 minutes in a public place doing absolutely nothing
or
-Ride an elevator up and down three times facing the back wall
or
-Spend a day without saying any greetings or goodbyes, jumping right into a conversation.

These assignments are neato. :P

So I could probably go on for an hour or two geeking out about this class, but I'm going to keep it brief because I'm worn out and in need of a shower and I should save my verbosity for these 5 page papers I'll have to write. o.o;;

~Joy
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Vorto de la tago - ZAPI [Sep. 14th, 2006|07:02 am]
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(oh god what is this, three language entries in a row? my apologies.)

haha what
These 'word of the day' emails are just about the only Esperanto exposure I get nowadays. This one was weird.

ZAPI

Rapide sxangxadi la programojn, sen dauxre spekti iun el ili (se
paroli pri televidanto):

Sxaltinte la televidilon mi komence zapas kaj nur poste elektas
deziratan programon.
Cxesu zapi, cxar mi ne povas normale spekti la televidon!

Zapi - Quickly changing the programs, without holding to tell one from another (if speaking of watching television) [channel surfing]:
-Having jumped up, first I 'zapped' the television set and only later chose my desired program.
-Stop 'zapping', because I can't watch the TV normally!

It apparently has cousins in Portguese and Danish, zapear and zappe. XD


So there's your word of the day.
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ayyy es tan preciosa :3 [Sep. 13th, 2006|04:13 pm]
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Eeeee. :D
I just got back from my old elementary school with another girl in NHS. We had to help this cute little girl named Yesica (Yésica? Yessica? However it's supposed to be spelled).
She's from Honduras and speaks virtually no English. She's also kind of quiet or shy (at least to me), which is a problem.

But she was really adorable and I enjoyed coaxing what words I could out of her. She probably knows more than she lets on, but she's also probably pretty scared. Just a few weeks in a new country, away from all her family, everyone speaking a strange language and no one who can understand her? Poor thing.

She can read and write at least a little bit. I told her dibuja una casa for me, but instead of drawing a house she wrote out 'casa'. She could also name the letters (in Spanish). She knows the English numbers 1-10 but she doesn't know any colours. I wonder if she knows shapes. I guess I'll find out next week.

Little kids mumble when they talk. It was impossible to understand her sometimes.

It was fun though. :3

~Joy should talk to the guys in the kitchen at work some time, maybe. One of the guys who washes the dishes has a crush on Jessie. XD
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Why am I wasting time with this quiz [Sep. 13th, 2006|01:20 am]
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PS: An Esperantist found me on Myspace the other day. :3 Hura! Mi gxojas.
PPS: Wow. It's really been almost 2 1/2 years already since I started learning Esperanto? Time flies.
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What Google has brought me tonight in email [Sep. 4th, 2006|09:30 pm]
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"...but Mac enthusiasts, in relative terms, are like left-handed Esperanto-speaking albino Zoroastians. Interesting folks, but not numerically overwhelming."

XD I am amused.

Also: Idunwannagotoschooltomorrah! *whine bitch complain*
Also also: I start work on Thursday. I should've checked the schedule to see if Jessie's working with me.
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