Sep. 21, 2008 - My fun weekend working at Busch Gardens
This week is National Deaf Awareness Week and yesterday at Busch Gardens they hired about 15 interpreters from the agency I with to interpret all the shows. That included musical as well as animal shows for the whole park. We got to wear uniforms with official name badges! It was funny because people would ask us questions that we could not answer. I just explained "It was my first day." Really it was my first and last. 
We worked hard for weeks translating the scripts and working on the musical numbers. My fellow interpreters did a great job.
The joke was because I have five kids I volunteered for "The Land of the Dragons". It was kinda like Barney, very perky and a bit hokey.
Here are some pictures.
Me before I actually interpreted, so pre-sweat.
Here is me interpreting.
This is the "princess" and the "knight" I worked with for the day. End of the day sweat picture. The dragon left the stage right away because it was way too hot to keep the costume on. They are about blind in those things anyways.
We hope to work for them again during the year. There were about 100 deaf people. They were very happy to be able to understand all of the shows.
