making faces

We had to practice making faces while we were signing very small sentances in class tonight. Making faces is really funny to me. Not making them myself but watching other people. I have to try really hard not to laugh a lot. Mainly cause it's all confusing. People are trying to coordinate their faces with their hands and everything else and it just turns out to be so so funny. I litterally have to try not to replay these things in my head or I'll start cracking up when they've moved on to something else. At which point it's just embarassing cause it looks like I'm loosing it. (Which I very well may be.)

*silent* Go Fish!

...except it isn't really silent when you're laughing hysterically.  I was trying not to but I was laughing so hard there were tears running down my face.  So was the person next to me. Totally fun.  

We had these cards that the teacher brought in that had different people drawn on them or shapes, colors & numbers. We had to desribe them by signing. I think it was the confusion and the faces people were making that made it so funny.  That class is awesome.

i love asl class

I like the teacher. She's friendly and funny. We have to play goofy games but it's fun to learn.

We were going over a list of words and she told us she has lots of "oops" stories. Where people sign the wrong thing, thinking it's something else.  She told us another one at the end of class. 

Her ex-husband wanted to ask her mom (who's deaf) if she wanted some pizza. He tried to sign "want pizza", except he didn't know how to sign pizza, so he made up a sign. Unfortunatly for him it was the sign for vagina. Not the right thing to sign to your mother in law.  Her mom gave him a funny look and told her to have a talk with him.

ASL

First day of ASL class. Really good. Confusing, but really good. We were sitting there in silence for so long, then when the teacher asked if we wanted a break half way through and this one lady was like, "Yes, I need to use my voice. I've never sat somewhere for so long without talking."

The teacher (who's parents were deaf) told this story at the end where she goes to a friends house for a sleepover for the first time in her life. She's like 12 and they go into her friends house and her friend starts talking to her parents. Just talking like normal people do, but to her it was really confusing. She was thinking, "You people are so weird!!! You talk to your parents?"

It's always a strange feeling when you realize that what's "normal" to you is not normal to everyone else and their normal is not normal for you.  And if you've never thought of whatever it is before, or experience it, then it does seem really strange. Even if it's completely "normal," just cause it's a totally new experience. 

People don't get it. They just stare at you like you're making a big deal out of nothing. But it's totally different when it's something new for you. Like taking people from a village where they all grow their own food and showing them a supermarket. It's just a totally new concept.