this is the day i get to overkill in hearts, pinks, girlyness, and chocolate. not that i don't do those things normally, but on this day, i like to combine ALL of it together so it's pretty obvious i'm excited about the occasion. for example, i did my nails last night!
valentine nails~
(and yeah...i don't have the Japan entry or the ALA entry up yet. don't count on it [for all one of you who -might- read my blog] since i'm too lazy and i want to blog about other things)
so me and george already had our valentine's day dinner on saturday when he came over and we cooked a delicious meal. but you know, you can't -not- do anything on the actual day, so we're probably going to dinner at the original fish company. i also have a little surprise for him. hehe, i'll take a picture when i give it to him and post it next time. anyways, here's a little update of yesterday.
i started my first day at el camino yesterday. it was weird. i panicked looking for parking (as usual) but found a spot with plenty of time to calm down and relax. the teacher was about 15 mins late for my first class. we were all standing in the hallway, thinking the same thing. "where the hell is our teacher?! there's no note...the class isn't cancelled, is it??" at about 11:15, a woman, who i assumed was the teacher, comes down the hall and lets us in. i take a seat in the back and then i hear a booming male voice, "hello! good morning!" and i'm thinking that is -not- the teacher's voice...then i see her signing and notice the man up front is an interpreter.
so for my deaf cultures class, my teacher is profoundly deaf and we have two interpreters for the whole semester. it was definitely interesting trying to watch her and catch what signs i recognized. also took a mental note to try and sit closer or towards the ends of the rows so i can see her sign. we don't need to know sign for the class. she just happens to be a deaf teacher. i also won't know if i'm in the class or not until tomorrow. about 5 people didn't show up, but she has to wait until the second class to drop them and add people from the waitlist. i don't even know what number i am on the waitlist. i kind of wish she went through some of the top names or something.
my second class is already a lot more intense seeming. it's intermediate sign language. i don't know "how deaf" our teacher is and i couldn't catch from her story is she was born deaf or not. i couldn't really understand about half of what she said. she signed faster than i'm used to and used a lot of signs i wasn't familiar with. she seems nice though. she told us to raise our hands if we didn't understand her. even if we keep raising our hands, one after the other, taking up a lot of time, she doesn't care. she wants us to understand her and to learn. hopefully i'll be able to learn a lot from the class.
i was also on waitlist for this class. two people didn't show up and she added 4 people from the waitlist. i was the last name she called and those who didn't get called couldn't be added. lucky!!! i'm so glad i at least got into one class.
anyways, i'm already kind of nervous about the projects for the asl class. one of them is to attend a deaf event and interact with one deaf person. the first event i thought of was Deaf Day at Disneyland. i've never been (not that i know of at least, although i think i was one year because i saw A LOT of ppl signing) and i don't know how i would go about talking to a deaf person. especially since i'm so inexeperienced and don't want to seem like an idiot to someone. but that would be a fun since i go to disneyland a lot anyway. i just want to go with someone who knows sign too...i wonder if i'll make a friend (or even aquaintance) in the class. oh yeah! we're not allowed to use our voice in the class. which, you know, makes sense and all...but since i'm used to just talking to my classmates, asking "how do you sign" or "what's..." not being able to talk seems like it'll take twice as long to communicate with everyone. @_@
okay, bye! ♥
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