Shake It Off

Yay! I actually had time to watch Children of a Lesser God, and it was incredible! It was really cool being able to see things that I have read about in I'll Scream Later and relating them to the emotions I now know Marlee Matlin was feeling at the time she filmed the movie. It was also awesome to see actual sign language in conversation form, not just on the videos that I've been watching.

Kind of relating to watching movies, I just started to watch Switched at Birth on Netflix. If you don't know what this show is about, feel free to click the link, but all you really need to know for the purpose of my mentioning the show, is that one of the main characters, Daphne, is deaf. Because she is deaf, ASL is used in the show quite frequently. Daphne attends a deaf school and it's really cool to see the interactions between her and her classmates. Though I don't understand everything thing that they are signing without the subtitles, I have understood a couple signs and have been able to follow along! It's awesome seeing progress!

Sadly, I didn't have time to make a video, because, let me tell you, filming and editing videos actually takes a real long time... Instead of having a video of me signing, I'm going to post pictures of some of the signs I have recently learned:

I actually have a personal connection to this sign. I volunteer in a first grade classroom and if one of the students has to use the restroom, instead of disrupting the whole class by saying it, the teacher has them use this sign and will discretely dismiss them. I love that the teacher connects sign language into her classroom, and hopefully, if someday I become a teacher, I can too!

I don't have a connection to this sign, I just really love food and thought it would be a good sign to share with all of you. Also, you need food to survive, so if you're ever out in the deaf community and are hungry, this would come in handy. 

I'm a firm believer in the fact that "please" is the magic word, so this one doesn't really need an explanation as to why I chose to share it ;)

Along with the videos and movies/TV shows I've been watching, I made a board on Pinterest dedicated to ASL and my 20-Time project! Pinterest is kind of my favorite, and I love seeing all the things others have posted about sign language and the deaf community. While browsing, I found a Youtube channel of a husband and wife who sign the lyrics to popular songs, and I'm a bit obsessed with it. I've watched basically every video, because it's just so cool to see the signs and how they go in time with the music. Here's one of my favorite videos:

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! :)