reminisce
Tomorrow I'm going to Winona to hang out with Katie, and also with a friend I haven't seen in a long time. She was my best friend in middle school and one of my first friends after moving from Chicago. She was in one of my classes and seemed really nice, which was comforting coming from a parochial class size of 13 to a class size of 400 at a public school. When I first met her, I was really intrigued by her but didn't know how to communicate with her because she was hearing impaired and I didn't know a single thing about sign language. I actually stopped her in the hall and got out a piece of paper and pencil and wrote, "Hi, my name is Cathy, I'm in social studies with you. What's your name?"
I then joined the sign language club at the school and my mom bought me a sign language dictionary. We became good friends, hanging out at each other's houses, sitting at the lunch table with her and her other friends. By the end of the year, I was helping interpret during classes sometimes if the interpreter was sick or late. At the time, it even prompted me to want to become a speech therapist. She and I became good friends, hanging out at each other's houses, sitting at the lunch table with her and her other friends. We kind of drifted apart a little during high school, I got involved with sports and the choir crowd, etc. Sometime during high school I loaned my SL dictionary to someone I was in choir with. She never returned it, and then moved away. It's gone and I'll never get it back. That still kinda stings that I was stupid enough to loan it out.
I'm really excited to get to catch up with her this w/e. It's been so so long. She's engaged now too, on her 5th year at Winona State. I hope I don't embarrass myself too much with the amount of SL I've forgotten. I warned her that I'm pretty rusty at it now. I'll have to resort back to my basic spelling-out of words, I still remember the sign language alphabet at least so I don't have to primate myself back to paper and pencil communication.
Well that's it for the reminiscing, I'm off for some fun hangin' out time with a former 6th cluster-er tonight. Goodnight!
I then joined the sign language club at the school and my mom bought me a sign language dictionary. We became good friends, hanging out at each other's houses, sitting at the lunch table with her and her other friends. By the end of the year, I was helping interpret during classes sometimes if the interpreter was sick or late. At the time, it even prompted me to want to become a speech therapist. She and I became good friends, hanging out at each other's houses, sitting at the lunch table with her and her other friends. We kind of drifted apart a little during high school, I got involved with sports and the choir crowd, etc. Sometime during high school I loaned my SL dictionary to someone I was in choir with. She never returned it, and then moved away. It's gone and I'll never get it back. That still kinda stings that I was stupid enough to loan it out.
I'm really excited to get to catch up with her this w/e. It's been so so long. She's engaged now too, on her 5th year at Winona State. I hope I don't embarrass myself too much with the amount of SL I've forgotten. I warned her that I'm pretty rusty at it now. I'll have to resort back to my basic spelling-out of words, I still remember the sign language alphabet at least so I don't have to primate myself back to paper and pencil communication.
Well that's it for the reminiscing, I'm off for some fun hangin' out time with a former 6th cluster-er tonight. Goodnight!
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