Weekending

Jan 26
Oops! Well, I don’t know where I came up with my numbers, but I have better facts after tonite. The church has plenty of people over the age of 15. There are several women age 20-26 who I met last nite (as well as several 20-something men who I haven’t met yet.) I enjoyed getting to know the women a little better. Alva is about 3 months pregnant, smart, and fun to talk to. She has a tough story though. One of the women that came tonite, Yaniry, never received much formal education or got to be around many other deaf people/signers, so her signing vocabulary is smaller. It was a great lesson to watch Nancy and the other women translate from printed English to signed English, to ASL, and beyond. Alva might make a great CDI (Certified Deaf Interpreter), tho I think she might make Yaniry feel slower than she is sometimes by continuing to explain even after Yaniry has probably gotten it. I can’t necessarily tell though. In any case, at one point it was my turn to read/sign a Bible verse, the one about how the sick need a doctor, not the healthy, and I did a decent job of expanding on the idea in a clear/gestural way I think. Then Nancy took the parable and instantly translated it into an example of ....ah, what’s it called? The linguistic term for when ASL uses a list to illustrate a concept? Well, that-- it was an example worthy of our Say It Like They Mean It textbook:) Great to see. I also got to do a little interpreting because Angelica’s and Yelitzia’s lil (hearing) sisters came too, and they don’t really sign. Mostly they chatted w/ each other, but occasionally they asked me what was going on and I caught them up.

I worked out for a little bit this afternoon, watched While You Were Sleeping on TV, and finished the part of The Poisonwood Bible I have to read for my independent study class. I’m feeling a little better than I did this morning (Saturdays are my down-time days when I tend to get a little melancholy). Tomorrow will be a long day—animo!

New vocab
77.Chamaco/a: (Hipolito’s brothers) kid. Vamos a recoger la mujer y el chamaco. Y el chamaquito?
78.Denila: D, p-in on cheek, m=GIRL
79.listing: (Belize, Sherwin)-- start w/ pinkie and work up, i/s of index and work down. Naming people who live nearby
81.judge/juez: 2h p-d B, ftips back, m=stairs on either side of head
82.COMPASSION: TOUCH-heart (Rh), Lh UNDERSTAND
83.SHARK (2): B p-L on forehead// or Lh p-d Rh p-o B splits Lh, both hands move zigzag. Nancy giving vocab for the week.
84.canoe: canoa
85.cabbage: (hombre del mercado) repollo
86.recio: strong, loud, hard