pictures!

Let's see...this entry will have some pictures in it, because apparently some people think that blogs are boring without pictures! But first a couple things about my week...

on Friday a bunch of people (including me) went to a deaf poetry slam. There were a lot of people there - I think it was sold out! But it turned out to be more of an open mic night than a poetry slam. There were still some pretty cool performances and it was interesting to see so many people I recognized from Gallaudet show up to the same place.

Saturday we decided to go to the National Book Festival. It wasn't a fair, there weren't any funnel cakes. So that was a disappointing start, but we did get to watch an interpreter there (they had an interpreter or two for every speaker or event), get some free stuff including temporary cat-in-the-hat tattoos! We also had time to make a quick visit to the air and space museum. We rested on some grass and taught my roommate Jill how to do a cartwheel, which are where most of these pictures were taken.

Daniel checking his pictures!

Reema!

Daniel and Angelica giving Jill some moral support for her cartwheels

someone said something funny...it was probably me

So thank you Angelica for letting me use your camera to show everyone my photography skills :P

Ok so I said I would answer questions on this entry and I have a couple that people have asked me:

-Is it hard when you want to say something but can't sign it? Yes! I feel like when I am walking with some of my friends, a lot of times we walk in silence because I don't really know how to sign everything I am thinking. It's getting better though!

- is it quiet in class? I suppose so, I don't really notice it because I am paying attention to the signing but it is much quieter than a hearing classroom. The dorms are a different story.

-Are your deaf friends from hearing high schools, and how would that work? Some people are from deaf schools and some people are from hearing schools, if a deaf person goes to a hearing school they have access to services like interpreters or captions depending on the school.

If you have any other questions for me, let me know! My mom is coming to visit me on Tuesday, so I am sure that I will have plenty of awesome stories to post for next week!

I didn't take this picture (Angelica did), but this is me and my roommate Jill!! I thought I should put a picture of myself on here, since it is my blog after all.

Thank you for reading!!

Kaleena

new sign of the week: kidding

most used phrase of the week: what did you say?