A few weeks ago my Sunday School teacher’s husband, Brent, had surgery on his neck. During his recovery his mother Lanie came to stay with him and Cheramie, his wife. Mrs. Lanie is deaf, and since I am so interested in learning Sign Language, Cheramie invited me over to her house the day after Brent’s surgery to “talk” with Mrs. Lanie some. I didn’t get to stay very long because I had somewhere else to go. But Mom decided that she was going to invited Mrs. Lanie, Cheramie, and Cheramie’s mom Mrs. Debbie, over for coffee and cake the following Tuesday.
So, that Tuesday they came. It should be noted that Mrs. Lanie cannot speak at all. And none of us can sign fluently, so it promised to be a very interesting day. Especially since I know more sign language than anybody else present, and they were all depending on me to translate, including Mrs. Lanie.
When they first came we all ate and didn’t really talk much except for a few pleasantries, because we didn’t want to talk without Mrs. Lanie being able to understand. But we couldn’t sign everything we would normally have said. Mrs. Debbie had to leave after about 30 or 45 minutes, and after that we really started making a huge effort to talk to Mrs. Lanie and to get her to talk to us. And it worked!
We talked about school, and work, and sign language, and me learning how to sign, and all kinds of things. But of course it was all in sign language. It was tough understanding what she was saying and then translating it so Mom and Cheramie knew what she was talking about, but I was really surprised with how well I did understand her. (The day was a big ego booster for me! J)
In the course of conversation Mrs. Lanie taught Mom and me over 20 different signs, including cat, cooking, cute, hot chocolate, pecan, work, and many others!
It was a really fun, tiring time. And I hope that one day she can come and it won’t be any trouble at all for me to translate for her!
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Posted by Clogginglover That's all for now.
~Candace;-)
Posted by Ebell1993 Its been a really long time since I came to your blog.
That is so cool that you are so interested in learning ASL and sure sounds like you are doing really well with it. I am on my 3rd year of teaching myself ASL and it has been so much fun!! For this Christmas we are doing a special carol service, and I am teaching all our Sunday School kids how to sign Happy Birthday Jesus in ASL. So Cool!
That is really neat you got to translate ASL. I haven't ever done that before nor have I talked to someone who is deaf:) What do you use to learn ASL? I use several different things but my favorite is aslpro.com. It is really good.
Well I hope we can talk again. Have a great day and God bless!
Love, Miss Elizabeth
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keep up the good work!
Cheryl
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