Deaf Culture Event Experience

Deaf Culture Event Experience

I went to each culture event with one of my friends from the class. For the first culture event, I went with Megan. I was extremely nervous and not confident in my signing at all. We got there and we couldn’t find where the event was taking place in the crossroads mall. We had to search for a few minutes and finally found it. We found the event by the KCLS library and started walking over to it. At first I totally chickened out; I was so intimidated by the large group of experienced signers. We decided to get some coffee and we ran into Shayla from the class, she made me more open to the idea of going up to a bunch of strangers and signing with them. She told me that it wouldn’t be as bad as I thought and that was no reason to be nervous. So we all headed over to the event. We grabbed our chairs and the circle of signers was made larger for us to join, a gesture that may have been just the standard procedure to make room, but one that made feel welcomed. A lot of my classmates will probably write about the little baby that knew how to sign that is always at the crossroads deaf culture event. I was signing to his mother and asking her questions about him. She signed that his name is Roger and he is six months old and knows twenty signs already! He was so cute! His mother was really nice and happily explained to me how she was teaching him how to sign. Roger and his mother are both hearing. I definitely walked away from my first deaf culture experience with a gain in confidence with my signing, and a solid decision that when I have a kid one day in the future I am going to teach him or her how to sign.
My second deaf culture event I went to was also at crossroads mall. With my first event and nerves out of the way, Megan and I went to my second event, her third, and found them at the library again, no problem. I got my coffee and sat down. I met another student named Sam who was in your 8:30-9:20 class. We signed for awhile, about school, plans for the future,...

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