Teaching My Friends and Family Signs

Since learning S.E.E. signing isn't as much fun by myself as it is with others, I thought teaching my friends would be a good idea. Plus, when I told them that was my Senior Project, they asked what certain words were.

Some signs are quite inappropriate such as: horny (the "hunger" sign repeated), poop (one of my friends taught me that), and MANY others. One day, during S.E.E. signing class, we were learning the sign for "hunger." My classmates and I are such weirdos and ask countless questions. One student, I can't remember who because we learned that sign quite a while ago, asked something along the lines of "What happens if we want to say we're really hungry? Do we sign "hunger" more than once?" And Lois, my teacher, laughs because that means "horny."

Haha, and then another day at school, one of my friends taught me the sign for "poop." At first I was confused but then she fingered spelled the word and I understood. It was so great. The next time I had class, I told my classmates my friends taught me the sign for "poop." Then, I think I was looking at this concert hall and I said "whoa! It's huge!" My classmate thought I was talking about "poop" still. When my teacher came back to the classroom, I signed to her "huge poop" and she laughed. Signing is SO much fun!

I also have an almost 3 year old sister named Mia who I've taught a few signs. She remembers the sign for milk. If only I signed a bit more to her, I think she could pick up a lot more signs.

One of my friends at my high school is obsessed with buses. I taught her the sign "school bus."

During one class session, I have no idea why, but I taught the word "drug" to the people that were sitting at my table. I think it just popped in my head and I thought it would be interesting to teach another sign to some more people.

If only I could find someone who is close to me or lives close to me, or even just is easy to communicate with (online like Facebook, or through texting, or meeting in person), I think I could enhance my skills so much more with someone who knows and understand the language for me to practice with.