ASL Inspiration

  This weekend I took a break from learning Hallelujah to try and memorize signs that would help in conversation. Surprisingly the lyrics from the song made learning basic conversation signs a lot easier! Even though I won't use all the signs from Hallelujah in a conversation some connecting and describing words could be useful.

  Recently I've been thinking about ways I could make my project more meaningful. Even though I haven't met the new student yet, eventually I think it would be like to teach some people that he might run into a few signs to make him feel more comfortable in a new school! I watched a video where a hearing-impared man's entire town learned ASL to give him a perfect day. He was moved to tears. It was so beautiful and inspiring. It was a video by Samsung to promote their new call center for the hearing-impaired. They want to "create a world without barriers".

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988285/Deaf-man-moved-tears-discovering-entire-neighbourhood-learned-sign-language-talk-Turkey.html

  If I could do something even remotely close to this for the new student, I think it would be a great welcome to UEHS! It would show how amazing our school can be! I'm really excited about this and I think after Monday when I meet the new student I'll know more and be able to further my idea's and see where I will be able to take it, if it's possible. I would love for more people to be interested in ASL and making a student feel welcome in the process would be amazing.

20% Day Calibration

 Today I worked on a calibration with Will Brennan, Brian Harris and Lydia Griffin! It was really cool because I was signing, Lydia and Brian were singing and Will was playing the piano. 

 After we all showed each other our progress with our own work! It was a really awesome 20% day because I got to sign to people who hadn't seen me sign before so they were more interested in what I was doing! I also got to see my friends progress and I'm happy to see how well their projects are coming alone. (Brian has the voice of an angel!) We took at lot of videos and pictures for our blogs and for snapchat.

Signing Hallelujah

 I'm so excited because I've FINALLY mastered the first verse of Hallelujah and have moved on to learning the second verse!! I've been practicing so much by signing the song to everyone in my house as soon as I learn how to sign the next lyric. I practice when I'm at school too by signing to my friends. I've been able to learn up to "overthrew you". It's hard to sign this song because there aren't exact translations. I've been trying my best to match the correct signs with the words without exact translations. I plan on making a video to show my progress sometime during the next week!