My mentor is great! I am not sure if I should put her name or not, but maybe I should after she comments on my blog. Anyways, she's great, super nice, and she's given me a lot of resources. She is how I got into the class in the first place. So may I say, "Thank you so much!"
So anyway, this morning, before getting to school. I had to drop off my younger sisters at their elementary school. As I was driving, I look at my side view mirror and there is a grasshopper... It was green, and kind of huge, and it scared me. Not to mention this morning this bug or mosquito or whatever was on my wall. It was in my sister's room last night, and I guess it found way into my room. Well, I killed it. That is what happened this morning before getting to school.
I got a lot of books from her too. I think at least 5 of them. Two of them are about the signs. One of them was written by an actual deaf person. Then another is about the steps to take in being a parent with a deaf child. In time, after I read the book I just borrowed from the library, I will read all the books, especially if we have no books to read.
We also talked about a possibly of looking at an all deaf school all the way in Fremont. It is a while a ways but I think it would be amazing to get a tour and even see how they teach. During last week's class session, Lois talked about how a teacher of a deaf class flickers the lights to get the students' attentions. I thought that was interesting and I think it would even work for students of hearing.
Also, Mr. Carlton, a teacher at my school, let me borrow some flash cards of American Sign Language and they are pretty cool. Although, while looking through the cards, one of the signs completely threw me and my best friend off. We were looking at the flash cards at my house and the signs for "Thank You" and "You're Welcome" is the same. I know for a fact they are not...
The second class session of S-E-E signing was great. A lot of the words we learned to sign helped so much to continue signing more complex sentences (at least more complicated than the ones we learned to do the first day). Some of the words were this, that, those, and these, and then there were words that helped us ask questions such as who, what, where, why, and how many and then give answers like because. Then at the end of every class so far, she has given a little good-bye speech. It's all in S-E-E signing too, so it is so much fun to try and decipher what she is saying while she's signing and mouthing the words. I usually I understand almost every word, but I miss maybe a couple words.
I am seriously enjoying this class and having people back me up. They are all great.
Hopefully I can get college credit...
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