Dining Deaf

Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to experience a dinner without being able to hear very well. My ASL III class went to Chili's and all wore ear plugs. The waitress knew ahead of time that we were an ASL class. (She was training that night..how fun for her) It was a very neat experience. Lots of pointing to the menus and the waiters talked really loud and slow to us. We could hear a little with the plugs in our ears. The biggest problem was keeping up with all the conversations going around at the table 21 people all signing and vying for "eye time" was exausting. You caught little bits and pieces of conversation. In a hearing world you can multi-hear and gather in many conversations at once. Sign language doesn't allow me to do that. Maybe when I get better but right now I really have to concentrate one conversation at a time. Another thing I learned is that I know a lot more than I thought I did. I was able to converse pretty much the entire evening without resorting to fingerspelling or looking up words in Angela's dictionary that she brought along to dinner. All in all...a neat experience and a slight confidence boost. This week I have to give a synopsis of Cinderella.

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  1. L*I*S*A8:56 PM, June 25, 2006

    What a great time!! I'll bet you are a smarty pants, girly-girl. Way to keep up with everyone. :)

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