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my first interpreter!
I'm really excited to tell you all this, except some of you probably won't understand. I got my very first interpreter for class!
It's for the biology lab only, not for any other classes, because I'm taking it slowly and I'm a little apprehensive about whether the interpreters are going to be too fast for me to understand. But so far, it hasn't been too bad. I did catch myself daydreaming a little because I found myself spending so much time translating the signs back into English, so that I could understand it, that I didn't catch the entire meaning, so all the words were simply disconnected from each other.
It's either that, or I simply haven't been able to pay attention in class at all. Let's see. It may mean I have some form of information unretention disorder. It's not that I don't understand what's being said, but that everything that has been conveyed to me is quickly forgotten.
In all cases, the interpreter was really fun. I knew her from last year, when another hard of hearing student had her, and I couldn't understand ASL at all. I also have a classmate who knows American Sign Language, and one who knew ASL before, but forgot some six years ago. We were all chattering about ASL and about the biology experiment that we have to do. It was cool.
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It's for the biology lab only, not for any other classes, because I'm taking it slowly and I'm a little apprehensive about whether the interpreters are going to be too fast for me to understand. But so far, it hasn't been too bad. I did catch myself daydreaming a little because I found myself spending so much time translating the signs back into English, so that I could understand it, that I didn't catch the entire meaning, so all the words were simply disconnected from each other.
It's either that, or I simply haven't been able to pay attention in class at all. Let's see. It may mean I have some form of information unretention disorder. It's not that I don't understand what's being said, but that everything that has been conveyed to me is quickly forgotten.
In all cases, the interpreter was really fun. I knew her from last year, when another hard of hearing student had her, and I couldn't understand ASL at all. I also have a classmate who knows American Sign Language, and one who knew ASL before, but forgot some six years ago. We were all chattering about ASL and about the biology experiment that we have to do. It was cool.
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