Sign Language

I can not express enough how much I love sign language. Tonight I went to Hands of Praise concert. They are a group of Christians that sign songs and go to different churches. I just joined this semester and I love it. I have been learning sign since Freshman year of High School. I learned sign at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT. For most of my life I mainstreamed. This means that I as a hard of hearing individual, I went to a hearing school (people who have normal hearing). I would have had rather gone to a deaf school but my parents would not let me. Sign is so much easier to understand for me because I can see it. Speech reading is hard cause I have to concentrate solely on the person talking and block out other people's distracting voices in the backround. I probably won't ever just sign and not talk like many hard of hearing and deaf people do but I do wish to continue to learn and use it everyday. My dream is to create movies for the Deaf ( silent movies) tv shows and plays. My two minors are Scriptwriting and Deaf Studies. Unfotunatly, even though the U.S. does have a law stating that all movies and tv shows should have captions, there are still movie theatres that do not provide this much needed feature. I pray that this will happen soon. So many people are advocating this idea. We should have captions in movie theatres so that the Deaf and Hard of hearing can enjoy the movies too.

Nicknames

If I ever have kids which wont be in the near future trust me, I am not going to name them names that can be turned into nicknaes like these. I hate the names Bob, Nick, Rick, Mitch, Butch, Cat, Fran, Chip, Jack, Nat or Pat. Especially Bob...sounds like a typical american name. I dont know why bt Bob makes me think of a short big guy maybe cause of Bob the tomato from Veggie Tales.

OK now to my other nickname petpeeve
I am going to hurt you if any boy friend calls me by these names:
Honey
Baby
Dear
Honey Bun
Cupcake
I am not a food!!!!! I am a human being. I am not a baby. I dont look like one, smell like one or cry like one. I am not a deer. I realize that it is spelled differently but the first thing I think of is a deer like Bambi.

Photography

To me photography is a way to see creation is a new and creative way. Whether the picture is of nature or people, it truly is an amazing feat. I love taking pictures of anything, I just prefer not to be picure taken. :) I guess I'm camera shy. My dog Buddy is my favorite to photograph. Hes so cute and will pretty much sit still for anything.

Race

I have my own words for the dominant races in this world. Hot Chocolate and White Chocolate. White Chocoate dipped in Hot Chocolate = YUM! Among the Hot Chocolate you've got Dark Chocolate and Milk Chocolate. Among the White Chocolate you've got White Moca and Hot White Chocolate. I personally prefer to be called Hot Chocolate :)

Follow your dreams

The Blind Side is an awesome movie :) Everyone shoul watch it. It's about a African boy who is an orphan with no where to go. An upperclass family takes him in even though other people ridicule and make fun of the boy. He eventually gets good grades and succeeds in football to go to college on a scholarship. He shows us all that we can do anything when we put our minds to it.