Last blog for a semester.. :(

Wow! Time went fast than I thought. I remember I have to type 18 blogs at beginning. Do I will be crazy and spend on the blog on lot of the time? I am survivor that I did do all post without missing or late post. I can see i have lot of analyzing on the blog. I looked at my past blog that it was lot of summary and not meet teacher want. Most time, I wrote about deaf culture to the story and obsession about deaf. Until Sharon said not have to always focus on deaf, just analyzed why author want to tell us and why she/he wrote the story and lesson for us. As they are leaving home, i am leaving home for a while. It is perfect choice for new freshman can understand them that some author or fiction person miss their home and culture. Their life changed when they leaved. I do change my life because i don’t live with my parents anymore but only during vacation.

I don’t feel a heisted when start to make new blog or don’t know how to do it. I had very old blog. I was having GreatestJournal.com blog when I was freshman. I never checked it until last week. I was surpised that last time I post it when I was junior. It have only 20 blogs for three years. You already see my other website as vlog on very first post. It is call video blog. My sister and I do disscued on vlog and talk everything what I want to talk about as this blog. I hope I can make new vlog and blog for rest of year. Recently I made new blog because this blog was influence on me to write more blogs for myself. To analyze on different websites what I found is in my new blog. It is just personality and fun to do.

Leaving home is great idea but some short story is suck as “Recitaf” or else that you was struggle to understand their story talk about. It is perfect to look it more than reall all novel that I will forget the beginning. Short story remind me a minute to remember what it talk. I have no problem with it. ☺ I know sometime I am not good at create the question for this story because I understand but I don’t have to think the 5 “W” as Why, what, where, who, and how. I always tried my best to do it.

Recitatif

The picture I picked was matching two girl as salt and pepper. :) It is cute picture.

This story talked about two girl went to orphan house for a while. All through the story, I was confused which one is black and white. Until at end, Twyla is black and Roberta is white. Both of girls go orphan house for several times because their mothers is not good to care them. Maybe their mothers are widow and can’t keep her child while she sick.
Both of girls are true hateful each other but they have to friend with togther because they are roommate to teach them. But, Tawya do rebel for their own school for racial right with her son. Roberta was not complain about this because she is rich with her “IBM” husband. I was knowing “IBM” was old word for computer with black screen. The computer with black screen and orange fonts was scaring me out and could wash our mind to stare it. She was ego all her life that she was teaseing Twyla while Twyla worked at store. That she was back up the star gossip.
Seem that time was happen after Martin Lutin King gave a speech because everyone get along but still stiff with black. They have get rid the sign of “color “ or “white.” Twyla and Roberta went to orphan househ which have lot of black with white people. I guess they already change but still threat the color people. The time is changed.
At end, Twyla’s mother is Maggie. I thought her mother is Mary because she run and hug during she was in orphan house. She ate jellybeans in the ground with her mother because she forgot to bring the food. How selfish of orphans home. They didn’t give a shared food. I checked the website which it was confused. That Maggie was from beginning that she fall in orchard. She is deaf because she cant hear the scream or cried the help.
This story really made me confused because it make me read the better modern English instead old weird English language.

It remind me as Elizabeth Eckford that everyone was pissed off black girl enter white school during 1957. Same thing Roberta and Tawya feel same way from Elixabeth. Because Roberta went to most black orphan. Tawya was threat the school that they don’t have right for black kids.

Little Saigon by David St. John and Zelzah: A Tale From Long Ago By Norma Fox Mazer

I know Asian have thousand and thousand stories and idioms because Asian lived 6,000 years. They wrote many stories to teach the lesson. I hear a stories from woman who comes from China and Gallaudet student. She told us true story that one of Chinese village don’t have any food. Teacher draw the bread picture on the black board to make children to see a food. Teacher erased the part of bread and told the children chew the bread to play with their brain. After that, they felt full from ghost bread. I was touchy her story. I started to fall in Chinese and Asian stories and idiom.
ohh what is Saigon for? It is city of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Saigon is old name for the city. Are they leaving their country go America? I think so.
In Saigon story, it was little confused because it is poetry all thought the all story. I know she move to America but become orphan. She moved France. She moved twice in big time. From Korean, America and at last is at Paris, France. She have learning a different language as Zelzah have learn English from Polish language.
My first though, that she live in somewhere in Asia because girl’s name until I read “Jacob”, “Anna” or “Sarah”. I was feeling that is not Asian name. I found out it is in Poland. I can see Poland can be poor that family has to sleep in one bed with 6 people in it. They already used it but I bet it already annoying to feel squeeze or poke in her in sleeping. Zelzah’s family is weird because her sisters have a weird personality each. Cripple, princess, “must to be fairness’, and other is in her family. I thought Anna do have OCD because she do follow the parents told her to clean as always. At the time, she didn’t get a duty then she will stare at dirty thing for a hour or more. It was overwhelmed me when I read this paragraph.
Last paragraph, Zelzah is happy because she not have a worry to find a husband and becoming successful. She is teacher and students are her children. She do have a heart in her students.
Both stories talk about go America to leave their beloved country but they have to move for a reason like finding a husband

On the Rainy River and The Setting Sun and the Rolling World

On the Rainy River by Tim O’Brien and The Setting Sun and the Rolling World by Charles Mungoshi. I chose this picture when i saw it that i want to swim in this lake as Tim O'Brien went in the lake. Right now I go back my home, California which is warmer than DC that you can still swim in beach or pool.
Tim O’Brien wrote it was very emotional because he explains a detail and his tone was frustrate. I can understand his feeling as it was happen me in few weeks ago. I wanted to know answer form future and know happen if I do it something. Sometime I wish life have “save” and “load” as Playstation game do have a save and load to get game over to get without mistake. Our life doesn’t have it that you have to move on and careful. Our life has one change to life. It is tough as Tim worried that he will die in war that one change to life. Later, he flashed back and forward that he will wonderful life as his dream answer. He will have a wonderful family. So, he went back his home and fights the war for himself. Other story, The Setting Sun and the Rolling World is opposite of the story way. Old Musoni’s son named Namho who is stubborn and thinking himself and life. Old musoni was hoping his son wills stay his home to work and watch his farm and home after he was become older and cant work anymore. He was disappoint in his son that he want to leave home to journey to find a new life. He gave up and let him go to learn a mistake. Son was thinking it all two months but Tim O’Brien leave last minutes but he did want to escape from America to avoid the draft for war. Namho took a time to leave the home. The Setting Sun and the Rolling World was pointless for me to tell me a story. I know it was cutting off lot of part of the story. Leaving home chose the part as his son leave home. I understand Musoni want to keep a traditional and not allow people invade the new culture in his family.
I knew it was Chinese story that their stories have a famous lesson in all stories come from Chinese. As you see Chinese art somewhere, it do have a story behind it and lesson. Art and story is same.

Trip in a Summer Dress and Beautiful and Cruel

Trip in a Summer Dress and Beautiful and Cruel is talking about baby. That Sandra’s sister has a baby during she is young as Annette Sanford. Sandra’s sister and Annette don’t have a husband while they born baby. Both of stories talk about Love and baby. But Trip in a Summer Dress talked about she missed her son but she is already lying to her future husband about she don’t have a baby.
I was feeling why she did lie to his future husband but she will have lie in her rest of the life. Her son will be cry to see her gone as redbird. Left her son with grandma without real father. He will be very miserable for this. Good thing she will go back her son at end. Because she see child wait for her mother will be back.
Powerful one ugly and feminism Sandra can wait to find a husband not like her sister who hurry to get a baby. I was ugly one as Sandra Cisneros. She is author of A House of my Own. This poem was my midterm paper. Perfect one for me to get know her. ☺ No wonder she don’t have a man in her house that she was ugly and effect by her sister taught her wrong way. So she won’t get a husband or having a baby as her sister made a mistake.
I feel I want to say it that I feel to belong this Sandra Cisneros with my life. I was having buckteeth and big glasses, which is old fashion. My clothes were not very fashion and tomboy because my mom is tomboy. Never go mall until I was 11 years old, I shopped on my own money to buy better clothes. I remember I am easily falling in love because I did chase the boy that I like when I was five years old. But funny, my sister and I did chased same boy. It is Mark Korn. I still have this bad habit. I am sure I will change as today Sandra Ciserco who not has a interesting in man. She and I are very positive but I am same as her sister. But I don’t going to have baby, I rather after I married
All stories are all together mean is love in family. ☺ Their life will get better when they grew up. In the story, both of girls are too young to think about see the forward future.


I wish i put the face of me but my old website down. :(

All Language is BIAS!

I read article “English is Androcentric” by Lowe, M and Graham, B. I can’t believe Androcentric didn’t in the dictionary that I was looking for it to define it. I hope it add word in dictionary someday. In article, Androcentric mean “It means it has a built-in bias towards men.”
This theme is true bias that man wrote the dictionary and vocabulary. For example in article, “Womanly” is listed under “weakness”, and “man’ and ‘he’ are used to mean everyone or everyone even though half of us female. Men have a power to write and their thinking is in dictionary. It is hard to be innocent in the word. They have an effect during they grew up and look at the people. Historically, woman not been to be “people with the power.”
It is biased by human’s behavior effect by racism, sexism, audism and more. You can check in thesaurus under white and black. The black is more negative than white’s. White has about 20 words for “white” people, but black have 72 words which are over ahead the white words. One topic is hit me about Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. still have gentlemen in it “Mr.” with s. Mrs. have real define that it is “man’s property” or “ownership by man” It was turn me off because I was feeling giving for my man. In my life, I won’t change my last name because I really love my last name Castle.
I was disappointed when I read the article that I don’t realized the language is biased. Few people and people who did read the article knew about biased. I felt like we need make a short movie about language. It will be wonderful effect on the people. It is still biased by media biased. To get people see our language is sensitive to make a negative in the people.
We need to have a politic correct without insult. For example, hearing think deaf is insult. So they used impaired hearing more formally. In deaf community, they think impaired hearing is insult because they think we are “sick” that we can’t hear. We felt proud to be deaf without pity can’t hear.
Many linguists think language is interdependent. People think different way of define in the word. Which is louder in “scream” or “shout”? People have own thinking in the word. Some people think it is big deal or cheap deal. People do use word to trick people like fun size mean small, man-made mean fake and farm fresh mean battery farmed. It called Euphemisms. Euphemism mean words that present their unpleasant subject in a favourable light.
There languages are not having a neutral language in the world. Biased is existed in the world. We can’t remove it unless it turned old fashion or dead word that we never use it.

Rubbish

Dawn by Tim Wynne-Jone
Tim wrote about dawn that is Goth girl that he met her in the bus. I won’t summary this story because everyone read it. When I read the story, I thought that he will meet Dawn again at end. I was wrong that he remembered her. I hope he met her by accident in future.
Dawn is stupid because she not put her phone number to meet again. They will be wonderful couples because it is so wild dating and keep love alive. Is he married during he wrote the story? I hope so.
Tim reminded me that I hate to be sit by stranger but I didn’t judge on the people. I just hate to be bother, move too much and take all my side. I always pick person who like I can trust that she/he not sloppy during the travel on the bus, airplane and other.
Little boy met awesome Goth girl who have amazing inside personality. He doesn’t recognize it until end of the book and part of the paragraph. She has a sweet and understandable because she wrote cute letter in the peace music cassette. She is very opposite to have peace music instead punk music.
“Oh Rubbish!” many time what he said it s nothing new word come from guy. He has a limited vocabulary.
At end, I was confused that Tim’s mom leave. I was thinking which is she died or divorced. But his father only said she leave the home and abandon the family. It is horrible. She should think twice about her son and explain him why she leave. I will kill for this without aware of the trouble in between parents. I am sure Tim wont explain deeply because he is just disappoint in his mother leave that he wrote short but he remembered irony and sweet memory in the bus with Goth girl. Goth girl make a miracle to make cheer up for Tim and Tim’s father by the surprised note and cassette.
The tone in the story was slow and thoughtful about this girl and mom. It is good story but still part is not explain clear because it is some skip the information that I will like to know. Like what is his first think of Dawn to be Goth or punk girl instead other people on the seat? Why he go to grandma’s during Christmas eve? It is odd for me. To sent his son then next day his parents arrived. Ugh why not he stay with his parents on Christmas?

Bad Influence By Judith Ortiz Cofer

Bad Influence By Judith Ortiz Coffer

I can see Puerto Rico, heavy humid and beautiful island. Seem this island is perfect to paint the beach wit pink frosting house in the bright blue ocean beside. I can image it. Right away, I will paint or draw it but I don’t have a material to draw it.
Wow, it is very irritated to ignore her that she is her guest for only two week. I can her grandma is very freak about soap opera TV sow almost like twilight zone as se mentioned in the story. Our time is much changed less trust or keep secret well as Power of Kindness said. Her mother said Puerto Rico is very respect and trustful but very curios with English people.
Aww, I miss my mom’s heal item when I was sick. She mostly never allows me get medicine unless it is not working to heal me. I will like to heal to take healthier than poison in my body.I felt I need a need a energy from positive energy in my mother’s house because her house is very neat and no dust spot. I felt she have an OCD. In story, they don’t believe the mess that those messes will influence people’s energy in their body because negative and old spirit stuck in the mess. I am happy that Angela change and no more to be anorexia. I am jealous of this grandma because she is very bright and wise. She knew how to stop anorexia not like America always give people a medicine or therapist to doctor earn the money without give them a shortcut. How darn of them. Of course, America always thinks about money. I did know America could discover to stop Cold virus but they don’t want to cure the people. They will bankrupt at end that no one is cold anymore.
I have a feeling that PR’s belief is same mine to have positive influence by energy not by virus or bacteria. Just your mental and energy. I always like to clean in my desk and other in once three months to see what I change that much and feel better to see cleanlier in my room.
This story is very spirit story to read and see other side of the culture. Their tone was very friendly and warm but very long story. Author could wrote shorter story. I guess the story is pretty good. ☺

The Curcuit

The circuit by Franciso Jimenez. I love strawberry and I am sure everyone love it. I already miss my mom's homemade whip on fresh strawberry from farming market. Ohh, it is my home CALIFORNIA whit warm sunshine with beaches but this is middle of California which is boring plain farm is everywhere. Fresno is boring city ever I seen because it is very quiet city and lot of brown that I could remember during I was having road trip around big state California. Mr. Sullvian saved Jimenez's family before they go boring to death town, Fresno.

What?? He is eleven years old to work on tough farming with heat... crazy. His family and he came from Mexican family. I knew Mexican do work at farm that theydon't have a green card or social security to work at real job. Also, they don't know an English that is other reason. They do encouraged their children to school but they need a money to earn for their live.

I impressed that Franciso have same personality as I am because I love to be success at school and show my parents what I got or showing that I made. Every time I got report card, get a prize or other, I were excited to show my parents. I love this because they possible to give me money or eat out restaurant.

Then go my home California. My state is wonderful place to visit because their have everything is desert, mountain, beach, plain, farm, city, and more. Everyone is welcome and see real Mexican do work at farm as in book. It is still exist even long ago about 1950’s.

This story is hard to anayzle because it is just story without emotion. But it have emotion at end, Franciso was proud and will see happen with his father will surpise his son become success and not give up. Also, I feel it is very common in my community and visual. I was just missing to see many Mexican. In DC, Mexican is very fewer. It is strange for me to see. One and half months left to go back California to see full Mexican people and HOT weather. ☺ It is my favorite but it is wrong time because we are in fall and sooner go into winter.

The Hands of My Father

The Hands of My Father By Christopher Jon Heuer. Wow, that is sad that he don’t have a connect with his own father. His father rather do a farming instead his own deaf son. He is very different because his father never talks him. Some fathers do gesture with their own deaf children or other way to learn the sign or speak with their deaf children. If he works with his father, it would help to talk his father without struggle. His father loved the farming after everything. He live and breathe the farming. He is very quiet and forceful on his hobby and working.
The poem talk about disappoint in their parents. I have a fewest disappoint in small thing with my parents because I am happy to live and grow up in good family. For example, my mom always nod during I talked to my mom. I noticed it that she not responded and I asked her did you understand me? She said no. It is always happen with my mother. I was talking her talking for long time and waste the time. But It is funny memories with my mom. ☺ I hope she don’t forget the signing while I left home for college.
I looked at Christopher’s family. My life and his life were very opposite because I have a connected with my parents. They are encouraged me and talked in my language. We are very strong and respectful family.
Christopher has a father’s hand. It made me thinking that Christopher signed which his father has same hand of his son can signed. Both are similar hand and connect but his father won’t learn the signed. I have same hair and eyes with my deaf grandpa. It is skipping the DNA but I have a hand and fuzzy from my mother. I have face shape and wave hair from my father. I am happy that i can see my mother and father's in me. :) Good thing i have a connect in my family and my sister too.

Finally I read longest story so far in this first semester. ☺ Amy Tan wrote Rules of the Game as her autobiography. I knew it is Chinese story because author’s last name. It is very common last name. I had a feeling that she has a success in somewhere that she proved the American wrong. I knew Chinese was struggled and rare Chinese got success.
Her Tone was wave of the mood as disappoint, sad, happy, and thrilled. It is hard to tell which she is on mood during she write on the story. She wrote it as machine as time to time to write down the story.
I understood she lived in famous China town in San Francisco. Seem she grew up in middle class that her family could afford the three of full 5 courses a day but she ate weird food that she said “it is unnamed food” and not want to ask her mom to make her freak out. maybe it is shark soup as I heard it China do eat it. I remember I have huge 5 course of the meal at cruise last August. I was going to Alaska with extreme delicious five courses every dinner. I missed it their food.
I popped my mind. Is it happening before Vintemn war to make America put Chinese prison camp? I found it Wikipedia that it is happen after Chinese and Japan prison camps. It allowed Japanese and Chinese leave the camps at 1945. Good thing they are still survivor through the camp.
Narrator tells the story was very detail. She describes everything in her hometown. She remembers during her childhood. Her purpose was telling everyone that her hometown was different and unique. Today and past was different. She don’t allow people forget the past look like and write in the book. It won’t fade the memory in the future. I felt she is very well memorized child
I don’t know why her name is different from modern name. her offical name was Waverly Place Jong but her mom called her after the street for American document. I am she wont use meimei during she grew up. Meimei is supporting for young sister. Maybe she married someone to change her last name to Tan.
The word catch me “Chinese Torture” I guess it mean Keep working. They don’t care about fun because they deserved to live the better country than their home country China. They took it prize to work. Remember China and Japan have higher education and knew English than 95% of America. It is fact that I saw it on somewhere on Youtube in past. I wish the title of the video.
I discovered she don’t believe in Santa Claus because she knew enough to seprate the race as white between Chinese. Children barely realized which one apart the color. They only look at personality and shape. One of my teacher told me a story. Her daughter explained to his dad that she want to invite her friend for her birthday. Her describe was telling about shape and personality, not color. I wish all people think this way not race. It is my major dream for our world to change it. It could cause peace in the world. Children are beautiful.
I hate the end of the story because it don’t finish about her competition and her family. She just go her room and look out of the window. What next?! I guess she stopped to play the chess because her mother changed by narrator. She was becoming ego, too much pride, and honor her daughter as queen not in her sons. She don’t care about her Chinese culture after her daughter won the games in chess.

I felt to want to type more info about the story but it already too much info in this blog. good night

Delight... Gift of Laughter

This story supposed to be friendly and touchy by title. Gift of Laughter mean it have to give everyone to be smile and laugh at end. Allan is narrator this story. He told his story about his son and past with his grandma which is related to his son. Allan seem have natural story teller because it is very smooth and make me smile at end that he is so smartass to get his son join him to eat ice cream while he want to run away which he stood outside. I was impressed Allan is knowing that he don’t want it make it happen repeat as in his past that he trade old football for his value brand new sled and marble.
At beginning, I thought it talk about Christmas that Allan’s son found Christmas gift under the tree as son was surprised. I guess wrong that his son thrilled to give his father priceless draw picture. His father was forgetting his birthday. It is making sense for his title, gift of Laughter that son draw strange picture of his dad. Same time, Allan was talking about money problem but his son gave him priceless. How it is surprised by luck. He don’t have to get a money or gift. It is just gift without money, Laugh.
Narrator Allan don’t have to take anger management because he didn’t slam his door for 25 years which it is surprised me that he is very gentleman and patience for everything until he heard his son slam and pissed off. It reminded him as in his past. He built the protect the bad memories from his son. He will explained his son about his experience. But it is irony that his son is only seven years old.
I found it is match the theme “leaving home” because Allan’s son ready to leave home because he is just pissed off that his dad not care his sweetest gift that he remember dad’s birthday. Allan’s family seem like be Italian family to me because his parent is foreign but move recently from other country. His grandma voice football but it is supposed to be fruit bowl. Poor Allan was misunderstand about his grandma. Why not he ask his grandma before he brought the football which he give up the thing that he love. Lucky, his grandma was proud his grandson which is nice and think he is funny to make it football with fruit bowl.
Narrator’s tone is tried to be funny, inspired, and smooth. His message came from the story is he remember the past and explain same experience that don’t want to repeat in the future. But it past and future is same. Hard to be different. Look at our America history, it do repeat.
I found this link. seem it is match Allan's son :) It is cool blog.

The Dancer

I love this story, Dancer by Vickie Sears. It inspired my feeling and made me think about the many great happenings in my life. I remember I went to a Powwow back home in California. These have Native America food but I remember I ate beans, lettuce, tomato, and other on the top of Indiana bread. It is good and healthy. ☺ I wish to know the name that I can find the picture and for myself. I missed California’s sunshine; it was warm touching my skin. I don’t have to wear a coat. My parents were amazed that DC also has cold weather and California has 90’s degree.

I read the part about Clarissa was in the habit of abusing animals when she was frustrated and mad. I understood she came from foster care. Maybe her parents did abuse her and made her abuse animals. It was not her fault. It was nice of her foster mother to accept who she was but sometimes was annoyed that she listened to the same song for three weeks which I can’t stand to watch a same TV show for three weeks. She discovered her real culture of Indian and liked to listen to the Indian’s music while she went to the Powwow for the first time. She falls in love with music, dance, and Indian culture. She has a mental disorder because she is too young to be mad, frustrated and hurts the animals which is she is four years old. She shouldn’t have a negative emotion in early childhood. She has a sociopathic, unable to conform to what society defines as a normal personality.

I am happy that she found her real home that she has a comfort with her culture in foster home but I hope her mother adopts her. She connected and raised her happiness than her other foster homes. I approved that author choose this story to match theme of the novel. It is making sense that she found the home.

I found “Assiniboin” word that I don’t understand what she mean in last page of Dancer. My first thought is her nickname as Indian always gives everyone a pretty nickname as my sister received the name “Dark Moon Raven.” I forget to ask Indiaa woman but I don’t care what I get it or not. I found it on wikipedia and it said it is name of Indian from the Northern Great Plains and Lewis and Clark met them Assiniboin. I wonder do she still happy for several years? or having frustant to be memory her bad experience? I hope it is not happen. Also, Why her last foster homes not care her well? They should teach or train her right way..

Edward P. Jones, First day schools

Not again to read first day of school. I don’t have to comment about my experience to be at first day Gallaudet. If you don’t know then read second of the blog “First day of the school” I think. I already miss NSO week because it is anxious to see big different from high school. Right now, I was feeling hurry that I want a break from an homework because I got lot of assignment from First Year Seminar. I have to because I go college to get degree with experience. I wont said just get degree because I read Focus. Did you? Anyway, I read the story. I think it story was so classic and very 50’s. I pictured the story’s color is brownish or gray scale. Mother and son are very relaxed but they did hurry to go school in the morning. I said relax because they did eat breakfast. Today, kids do skip the breakfast because bus arrives early. I don’t go on bus, good god! My parents always drive me to school until I am senior. I have to go on bus because time is change the schedule. Mother and son have to walk to the school and not talking about television or computer. It made me think one of movie but I forget the movie. I hope you can tell me a title of the movie. One boy have biggest goal to play the football player. But He grew up in Mexican family, he live in poorer town. He looked bright to me because he took this serious. He decided to go division 1 high school instead his old poor high school. But this high school is 5 miles away from his home. He had to wake up in 3am to get school at 730am in walking. He didn’t give up that he wanted to go better school instead lousy school. He joined football team. He had a very tight schedule; walking, school, football practice, walking, do homework at midnight then sleeping. It is his daily. It is opposite the book. The movie is much better than this story. The movie was touching my heart. The both of story and movie have little part of racism. In story, teacher told mother go to other school, but his son could go school by walking like 30 minute. Teacher not accepted her son but I think about racism. I am just guess because it isn’t mentioned the how long he arrive the school and why teacher not want the new student who live far from the average.

Connect to Ciseros and Soto

When I get to ready go Gallaudet, I was imaging to decorate my room but I not have dorm room look like until I arrive Gallaudet. At first I saw my room, oh it is like my school dorm because it have white room but way better because it have colorful and AC control. I was not using to live in little humid room and roommate that I never meet her before. I got along with my roommate in a while. Anyway, I was thrilled to have own time and room because my parents not have to watch over me every minutes. I love to buy something for my room because it is my brand new room. My old room is still stuck with baby paper wall. It is hard to get it off. I left it on. I am still little girl in my old room. So far, I am doing well. Seem I can do by myself, but my parents keep contact me as email, vp and text me almost everyday that I live 3,000 miles away from my home, California. Ha They hate to be in empty nest at their home because their children is gone at once. Back at home, I was lazy to do something but at college make me motivate because I can do something myself that I can go anywhere by metro, own room, and education. I love to stay DC because I still not have drive license because I not want to pay insurance while I am in dc even I am 19 that I don’t know how to drive. Ehh, I need to learn to drive before I get back fall 2009. But i am happy to turn to be 19 in five days ago and no more teenage era. now i am in college era to leave my home for rest of my life.

I understand as I read Ciseros and Soto were happy to be alone at her room and having an independence as they were looking forward. Ciseros was alone that I think she stay there alone for writing. Soto are ready to get away his home that he soon became seventeen. As I am 19, I am fully independence but for some reason, my parents still support me.

Recollection

“Recollections” is more interesting because it matched my experience that I grew up in a deaf school when I was young from three years old until I graduated. Margie went to a deaf school for a long time but she attended three different schools during the rest of her life as oral, mainstream, and deaf school. I never attended other school because I didn’t complain about my school. Her learning in Kendall reminded me of my time in elementary when I learned basic things. Her learning was the same way at my school that they tried to teach us to learn vocabulary and math. Also, my mom taught me vocabulary and brought many books that she wanted me to read. Elementary didn’t teach me to read books on my own. My mom encouraged me to read and I learned. I was ignoring to learn by myself and wanting to have fun with dolls and playing with my sister instead of learning.

I remember I started to read books on my own when I was in 5th grade. When I saw a young girl reading a thick book, I was jealous of her. The young girl showed her expression that she enjoyed reading the book. It looked fun to read without a teacher telling a story and stressing with tests. I told my mom that I want to read a book. My mom was surprised. I started to read my first book Pony Pal. It is my favorite childhood book. It is good for kids who have an obsession with horses. I don’t like to hear the teacher tell a story not like Margie loved to hear the story. I love to read by myself to see words change into the movie or imaginative. Telling a story is just for enjoyment and putting me to sleep. Still today, I love to read that book. And thanks to that girl who made me jealous. ☺

When my parents found out when I am deaf at three months old, they were disappointed at first and accepted that we are as my dad’s parents are deaf. So, they discussed easily then they knew nothing about deaf. They keep me as deaf and sent my sister and me to a deaf school. But I attended speech classes from pre school to my freshman year. I was trying to speak but kept making mistakes. Most of the time, I voiced as mumble with no definition. I was struggling with it. I still remember I can say no. Speech teacher always said you will get a better or good job. I realized that they knew I was not very good at speech when I was in 8th grade. I complained that I wanted to quit but I had to go there because of my IEP. I entered to be a freshman and decided to tell the speech teacher that I did not want to learn speech and quit. They said I can’t and I don’t show up to the speech class. So, my parents signed the IEP to allow me to not have to take a speech class. I thought speech class was wasting my time. I learned nothing. I am happy that I quit before I was busy at high school. I am completely deaf because I don’t understand speaking and hearing anything.

I think this story is more enjoyable for me than “Learning the Native Language” by Susan Stocker. I am sure Margie will understand me more than Susan does. Susan just needs to express her feeling and her audience is her therapy. Margie told her story that she is proud that she is successful that she went through different hearing and deaf communities without a big struggle as Susan was frustrated with her hearing teacher.

Reflect on Learning My Native Language

I read “Learning My Native Language” by Susan Stocker. When I read it, I rolled my eyes. Author Susan was so whined about her hearing that she missed a lot of vowels and words when she was young. Deaf was suffering but accept their being deaf. They live and learn with it. She should get a hearing aid when she doesn’t understand what the teacher says. Oh right, she was in 50’s. Her story was printed in 2000 which is different from 40 years ago because she did tell us her age is 46 which was in 2000. There was a very old fashion hearing aid, which was a big size device. Maybe she would have been satisfied when she was young and not be complaining in the story. I know she was bewildered in the hearing and deaf world because my dad is a child of deaf adult. He grew up in between the deaf and hearing world but his native language was America Sign Language. He does understand, not like Susan because she grew up in the mainstream school and she wanted to fit in it as in the theater scene in the story. She was supposed to write to hearing people because her writing style is to teach to hearing people who don’t know hard of hearing and deaf about the difference in culture and pride. Deaf people have their own pride to be deaf in Gallaudet University where Susan went for ASL class. She did not get along with them, which is full of deaf pride identity. I am part of a pro deaf identity. I think she went to Gallaudet at the wrong time because of Gallaudet was freaked after “Deaf Pride” or “Deaf Power” which overwhelmed her. The modern period is more flexible and understanding because of networks and deaf history in the mainstream. I am sure it already changes. I hope she could understand that the past period is different from now. She admitted to telling her “impaired hearing” in the college class. I wonder why she did not say hard of hearing or almost deaf but I know she needed to use formal words in the higher education class.

First Day of School

I read The First Day of School by Jeffrey Deaver as my college first day. I think Deaver has a good and bad day because he had to fight with one boy who was a bully in the 8th grade and lessons from the teachers that he will not fight and just walk away when he is adult. At the same time, he was very excited to go to school as his old memories as I am being excited. In my first day at college, I was excited to see all the people who were in my class and the professors that I want to know which is good or bad. I was awake very early like 630 AM that is my usual time that I wake up because I am a morning person. My first class started at 10 AM. I had to wait four hours to go to class. I looked at the clock every minute and that made me feel like I could kill the clock. All classes went wonderfully and I loved it as Jeffrey loves his classes but he hates math class.
First day of college and high school is the same to me because I was looking forward to seeing new faces and teachers. I knew Gallaudet because I visited twice. I was not afraid me to be alone in a new school or with people. Jeffrey Deaver struggled with the beginning of the school because of the bully and math, but he didn’t give up on math or the bully. It is my natural good luck because I almost never have awful things happen during school. I always avoid getting in trouble and give all homework but I do understand the math. Thankfully my dad was a math teacher in the high school.
My first day was very simple, not like his old time when he was in middle school that he have get up early to get class and stay there all day. Little Jeffrey was successful becoming a teacher because he learned on his first day lessons and then went through to college then taught a second generation of children. It is my goal to be a teacher in my future life as he was teacher.

Special about me

I am freshman in Gallaudet University. I hope I could to get more friends than I expect as I was at my school where many Mexican people are. I don't mean to be racist. It is their clique to make to be together with their primary language. I do this blog for my First Year Seminar and English class. I think it is a cool class because I don't have to type the paper and print. Just Blog :) which is easy that my professor will check it when it is due. I am sure that you saw my banner or website name said twin castle that I am twin. Also, it is my signature name at my old school. I went there for 16 years like I was born there. Everyone knew about us and keep a bewildered look which one is Nicole or Brittany. So, they called us Twin castle. I love this nickname but I rather see me as one person. I was very successful during high school because I had a pot of gold year. I got all goals met as I was receiving top award for Girl Scouts (I am still a girl scout in my heart), best student of year, Valedictorian and more. I love to get attention in academics. If you do not believe that I am twin, my sister and I own the website (twinscastle.wordpress.com) as a vlog website. We were busy creating new vlogs, but we hope to keep up new vlogs.