Archive for September, 2007

Everybody Duck

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

I was listening to my ipod today when this song came on. I have no idea where this song came from and had to look it up since I don’t remember hearing it before. I know what you are thinking, how do you have a song on your ipod that you don’t know. Well since we are very good at sharing around here a lot of people have shared their songs with me. Must be the reason I have over 3300 songs. Anyway, I found a vidoe and the lyrics to this song. Apparently this is an older song, but it was new to me and possibly to you too.

LEGO Everybodyduck - Still Know How to Groove

well I don’t have a bible that weighs eight hundred pounds and I’ve never past out flowers at the mall
well I’ve never talked to space men, or howled at the full moon don’t have a velvet painting of Jesus on my wall
AND I don’t have a brief case, or wear a three piece suit, and I never ride my bike wearing a tie, I have never shaved my hair off
Or sacrificed a friend, don’t want my head chopped off and frozen when I die

Chorus- Well Jesus doesn’t want me for a zombie, and he’s giving me a freewill so I can choose,
I’ve escaped this worlds snare but I don’t have to be Square oh yes I have be come a Christian but i still know how to groove

well I’ve never played with cobras or walked on red hot coals, and I’ve never even touched a tambourine, I’m not very good a bingo I don’t worship shinny rocks, no don’t have plans to wed my sister named Irene well I don’t pray to statues not even if they cry, don’t watch that jesus station on TV all day long, Well I’ve never seen Elvis I don’t have Six billion kids and I don’t sing through my nose on every song
(chorus)

Deaf in 2 languages

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

When the bell rings and recess is over all the kids run to their lines. I was standing on the side of the playground talking to a teacher when all the kids starting running our way. The girls that I interpret for were on the other side of the playground, noticed the other kids running and started running themselves. I saw they were on their way, so I went back to talking. When I looked back I saw that one of the girls had fallen. So I went over to see what had happened, she scraped her wrist and her knee and had 2 adults and about 20 kids all gathered around to try to talk to her. I got there and everyone dispersed to their classrooms. Her wrist was pretty scratched up so I decided to take her to the nurse to get a band-aid.

When we walk in to the nurses office, the girl is still crying.

Nurse to girl “What happened?”
Without answering she goes in and just sits on the bench
Nurse again to girl “What is your name?”
Me: “She is deaf and can’t hear you.”
I start to sign when the nurse says “Oh” then a little louder “COMO TE LLAMAS?”

I wanted to say she is equally deaf in Spanish as she is in English, but I didn’t.

1 year 8 months 3 weeks 6 days

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

It has been a while since I have worked. The title that gives the exact amount of time.

Today I re-entered the working world. I was hired to be in a deaf and hard of hearing classroom for kids ages preschool through 2nd grade. I showed up at the office and the people there already knew my name. Apparently word got around that I was back and as popular as I am, someone at the high school called and asked if they could steal me for the day to go and interpret over there. Anyway, I turned them down for the day. I have a feeling they will keep trying to pressure me to go over there to interpret, but I’ll just have to wait and see.

The kids I was with today were great. They all seem like nice kids and were easy to work with. 2 of the little girls in the class I had working with over 2 years ago. I don’t know if they remembered me or not, but they seemed to like me so that was nice. The “hard” kid was absent today, so maybe tomorrow will be different, but today was a good day to start back as an interpreter again.