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[Nov. 3rd, 2006|10:19 pm] |
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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| Some languagey stuff |
[Oct. 5th, 2006|11:24 pm] |
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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[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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[Sep. 21st, 2006|10:53 pm] |
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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