The day Ares the war God came to Iowa School for the Deaf

Here is my story i wrote, when I used to go to ISD.

Long time ago, Ares found a way to time travel to the future. It was to dive in specific area in the Ocean. Ares decided to dive in that specific area. As he dived into the water, WHOA he went through the tunnel of fire, BOY he sure really enjoyed the ride in the tunnel. Somehow he ended up landing in Council Bluffs, Iowa during the year of 1999. By the time he arrived, he smashed onto the land so hard that it felt like Council Bluffs had a earthquake. As he got up, he was looking around, he was centered in a city with all of the buildings, cars and people. Ares was shocked and silenced for a moment. He was amazed that the world lasted for so long. He did get nervous for the first time in his life, because he has never seen all those new buildings, cars and people. So he wandered around the city for short time just checking things out. Of course people were staring at him because he looked different.

Ares happens to come upon to Iowa School for the Deaf, he had strange feelings about that place. So he went onto the campus to check things out, He saw all of the students using their hands, but he was not sure why. As he was thinking more, he was sensing something, As you know, Xena was Ares ex-girlfriend, He sensed there was someone around that possibly be related to Xena the Warrior princess.

So he used his powers to scanned everyone’s mind from ISD campus. Finally he found someone, it was a girl name Rita B. He figured there is one guy who could help him find Rita B. He sensed this guy’s name is DR. John. So he quickly changed into his future clothes and changed himself to Rita’s father with fake proof. He went to Dr. John’s office to ask him about Rita, after John has told Ares about Rita, Ares was sure happy and left quick. He turned back to himself but still in future clothes and turned himself invisible so he could sneak into girl’s dorm.

There was one problem some of the students at the dorm have a uncanny ability of seeing spirits and invisible things. So he had to make some of those students blind for about 24 hours. Rita was in her room reading and listening to music. Ares found Rita’s room, he sneaked in and checked out the room and spied on Rita, there were few posters of pictures of Xena on the walls. So he thought, Ah Xena is Rita’s mother. What Ares does not know is, Xena is just a character and the real person is Lucy.

He planned on getting xena and Rita back together tomorrow but he will kidnap Rita tonight. For awhile Ares left the ISD campus to find Xena, He searched and did finally find Xena in San Diego, California. Finally it in the middle of night when everyone is sleeping. He happily went to get Rita to take her to San Diego, California to Lucy’s (Xena) house and left Rita on the couch at Lucy’s house.

At ISD, as it was morning, no one saw Rita come out of her room at all so the houseparents went to check her room, the alarm flashing is still going on and on. Everyone was puzzled, that so unlike of Rita, so the houseparent reported the problem to the manager of the dorm. In San Diego, as the sun rises, Rita woke up in a strange different place and was real puzzled about whereabouts she was? As she walked around checking out the place, she peeked into kitchen area of the house and saw Lucy and the baby in the kitchen. Rita quickly back up and turned around and saw Ares and screamed, then Lucy heard the noise and jumped. She put down the baby in high chair and quickly came out to the other room seeing Actor Kevin (Ares) she knows from work and a girl she does not know about. Lucy was becoming kinda defensive toward me and Kevin (Ares). Lucy said to Ares, “Kevin, who is this girl and how did u get here, I thought you were in New Zealand visiting your family?” Ares was puzzled because his name is not Kevin so he got kinda mad and told Lucy “XENA, MY NAME IS ARES NOT KEVIN”. Lucy was puzzled and yelled back at Ares, “NO MY NAME IS NOT XENA, I am Lucy and what the heck going on here?” “Explain to me who this girl is and why are u calling yourself Ares?” Rita was confused so she yelled at Ares, “how did I get here?” Ares was laughing so hard. The baby in the other room was crying cuz of all noise going on. Back at ISD, everyone is doing a major search on Rita’s whereabouts. Back at San Diego, Ares finally stopped laughing and told us what was going on, he said he thought he was giving Xena his daughter back. Lucy was puzzled and concerned. “Ok Ares, Proof to me you are really Ares.” Ares magically started a fire in Lucy’s back yard, Lucy was sure really upset about it. Lucy told Ares, OK Rita and I are in no way related and u need to return back Rita where she belongs, before there’s a manhunt for Rita. Ares was mad and at the same time blushed cuz he made a big mistake as a god himself. Ares magically fix Lucy’s backyard up back to normal. Ares decided he will be nice enough to return Rita back to ISD and reverse the time back to the day before and make sure no one had the memory of this happening. As the result, Ares went back to his time and decided to never ever time travel again after all cuz it was all too weird for him.

My writings about Martin Luther King from school!

I finally found my old paper, i wrote about MLK from when i was a freshmen at Nebraska school for the deaf…  here the picture…   click on the picture to make it bigger so you all can read it…

 

Summer Jobs for Teens and Interpreters!!!

 

Hello all… Today topic is “Teenager’s job force and interpreters in jobs”… I will tell you my experience about my jobs during the teens. My first job was babysitting a baby from my mom’s friend at age 14. It was a fun experience for me, I enjoyed babysitting. I have babysat her for about 4 years, I still visit her today too sometimes, she is now about 11. Taking care of babies and kids is my favorite job. Other job I had was also working at a daycare with group of little babies, it was part of summer program with schools. I also loved that job too as well… If I could, I would have gone to college to take courses to work at daycare and maybe be a teacher. But it never happened. College courses would be too hard for me cuz my levels for math and reading are low. Other jobs I had, I used to work with “green team”, where you worked at parks, cleaning, picking up trash, weeding and stuff with group of teens. One time we had to work under a bridge where car traffic was, it had a lot of high grass and stickers and stuff, that was worse thing we had to do. Other job, I worked at molex company, where u assembled little parts for computer and chips. It was a okay job. Here the website to show u what I worked with. http://www.molex.com Also I did not have an interpreter at that job either and that was not good cuz I never really heard anything being said I might needed to hear. I relied on someone telling me whats going on.

About interpreters… In all those jobs, I never did have a interpreter. No, it was not easy at all, but I did my best, of course there were times I did not hear anything I needed to hear what is being said. At job interviews, I did not have a interpreter either but I would inform the boss about me being deaf so the boss is usually nice about making it easier for me to understand and it was just one on one so I was fine. Of course it helped that I was using my hearing aids. When I was younger I used to join educational talent show program for the summer. I did not have any interpreters so half of the times I missed out what was being said. I did have someone who would try help me understand what was being said or I did have note takers once a while. As I gotten older going to that program, I did eventually get a interpreter which was good. So sometimes I for some reason will go to events or some kind of lecture thing, I often forget to request for a interpreter so as a result I can’t really enjoy what going on. Now I am realizing I need to make sure I get an interpreter if I am going to any kind of lecture, my hearing aid is no more longer helping very much since I was teens.

Alright thanks for watching my vlog and feel free to leave any comments, ur experiences working with jobs for teens or about interpreters…

General things about Deaf related stuff!

 

Hello all… This past weekend I had tension headache, but I am fine for now. I had a couple questions for you, for those who wear hearing aids, how long do your batteries in hearing aid last? My hearing aid batteries last me about 1 to 1 and half week. Do you deafies get phone calls from telemarketer caller like sales ppl and political calls for vote for whoever from your TTY or Video phone? I don’t get those calls from my video phone but I know my friends does on regular phone, this last weekend, he kept getting about 10 calls from same political person about same stuff in one day.

So far I have been checking out deaf read stuff, I noticed there were some people complaining about some vlogger using captioning on their videos. I am kinda like, “why complain”? Like for example, Seek Geo uses captioning for his videos for other people who don’t know sign or learning to sign. Personally, I think people should take the time to appreciate the work other vloggers have put in their work and their time to make a video and do some extra work to it. I always have appreciate all other vloggers work and their sites. I don’t understand why some people don’t take the time to realize how much work it can actually be making a video and other things like adding captions on the videos, it really take up a lot of the person’s time and work. I am very thankful for all those vloggers that are out there. I know some of those people are just jealous that those vloggers are doing a good job. I want to say, think before u speak or type, back up before u let someone’s feelings get hurt. Just appreciate other people’s work, good things will come your way if you do… Seek Geo website is very impressive to me, like he uses captions on his videos cuz he is actually thinking of other people and has the chat box that he actually uses and actually talks to the people on his website, wow, how many people do u know does that for his fans? I also appreciate other vloggers like Beth, Gary Brooks, Jon Savage, Barb, Teri, Sean Berdy, Tar, John ABC and many other vloggers. I would never want to say anything bad about anyone, that a display of jealously and low self esteem.

Story plot about “the Russell girl”

http://pressroom.hallmark.com/Current-News/Amber-Tamblyn-Stars-As-The-Russell-Girl-In-Hallmark-Hall-Of-Fame-Presentation

more about the russell girl and about the movie related to deaf, “sweet nothing in my ear” with Marlee Matlin in it… Will air on CBS channel in April.http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/article%7C10001%7C10051%7C/HallmarkSite/HallmarkHallOfFame/HHOF_TOP?landingPage=hallmarkhalloffame&hostName=www.hallmarkentertainment.comIMDB movie plot about “sweet nothing in my ear”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158793/

IMDB movie plot about “the russell girl”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097649/Last Sunday night I watched a movie called “the russell girl”. It was pretty good movie… It was mainly about forgiveness and letting go of ur past. It was a good lesson movie. There will also be a movie related to deaf on CBS, by hallmark. Title is, “sweet nothing in my ear” with Marlee Matlin in it.So it would be nice if you can step back and think about what your saying and really appreciate other vlogger/ bloggers work on their website. If you don’t like it then don’t go there. A lesson I have learn from watching the movie, “the russell girl”, if you don’t forgive or let go of your past, it can really stress u or ur family, friends, it can lead to losing ur relationships with others and depression. So basically if you let go or forgive, you will feel more happy and be more relaxed. Thanks for watching my vlog and remember, appreciate all the work other vloggers have given you and the time they took for you to do a video.

Deaf pride song/poem

 

Hello all…  Thank you for all your comments…  I enjoy them all…  I added 3 new pages, about deaf poem by  Dianne Kinnee (Switras), it was a inspiring poem, you all should read it.  Other page is about Deaf FAQ, for those who have questions about deaf people.  And last is a page about what people say to Interpreters.  I found it at http://www.deaf-center.org/deaf_culture1.htm  I thought they were interesting to read…  Feel free to make comments about those new pages… 

Today, I have a Peom/song for you all…  Ohhhh deaf power , deaf pride, deaf champ,  can’t hear but can do everything we want…  Ohhh we lucky we deaf cuz some of us can control  how much we want to hear by using hearing aid.   Don’t let anyone defeat you cuz of your deafness,  cuz some of you who are hearing don’t understand us deaf.  Those hearing people don’t  understand  the deaf peacefulness, soundless…  Like those goldfish in the peaceful water bowl, they hear nothing.  Ohh enough with “never mind” and “not important”…  Deaf power, deaf champ…  ASL is a beautiful language, don’t let anyone stop you from using ASL…  People who don’t  sign, don’t know what they are missing…   I am proud to be deaf!  Thank you all for watching my vlog…   

A girl who was a Tomboy…

 

Hello all… Now we know who playing the super bowl on Feb 3… It’s New England Patriots and New York Giants. It was a tight game for the Packers and the Giants. Most of us wanted San Diego Chargers and Green Bay Packers to win but unluckily that did not happen. It did not help that Chargers were missing some of their important players due to injuries. Also I know it was freezing cold for those football players. All-right today the topic is… Being a tomboy… I started being a tomboy after I was about eight years old, it was after my parents divorce and my dad had a girlfriend with two boys. There were more boys in my family, So I decided I want to be just like the boys in my family. I always thought the boys got better things then me. I would steal my brother’s underwear to use it and use their boy’s clothes. I never really had a true lady role model, and my mom is a tomboy too. Sometimes I felt shame of my tomboy’s thing so when I am with my friends who are girls, I would quickly change into girl’s clothes before going to see my friends who are girls. I know it silly to be doing that. But same time I felt like I needed to be a boy in my family cuz it was all boys. But same time I felt shame I was being a boy behind my friend’s back. I know my friends might have already known I was being a tomboy but just said nothing about it. I did cut my hair really short too. I thought I felt happy as a tomboy, I know a lot of girls do go through a tomboy phase too. I just do not like dresses, frilly kind of clothes, flowery clothes. My family would try getting me those girly things and it made me feel like being a boy more. I never really appreciated being a girl as a kid cuz I never really understood why us girls had to wear dresses, have long hair, wear those ugly, flowery clothes. Well now I know that not true. I liked playing rough, getting dirty, having an adventure and other things. Now I understand girls can do those things and wear jeans and just t-shirt and pretty much do whatever they want. That pretty much what I do anyways… Now I am more comfortable wearing girls clothes, since I was about 15 years old but I still use boys clothes sometimes. I would like all your feed backs, comments, experiences… Thanks for watching my vlog…

My dog is signing!!!

Just a funny plot of my dog signing…

Deaf girl inspiration of Martin Luther King

I have always been inspired by MLK since i was a little kid.  When i was a little kid, i had wrong ideas about how people were black, i thought it was simply they were just out in the sun all the time, so they just became very tan or something.  then i learned at age 7 or so that the black people are born black.  also when i was very young, I used to thought one of my grandma was Black because she was soo dark skinned, but no she is white.  I have always been real cool with people of any color or any differences in them, i am open mind to any kind of people,   To me, if everyone was exactly the same, if we were all white and had no differences then the world would be very boring.   So i want everyone to follow MLK dream and combine everyone of any differences.  do not look at the color or hair or body type or a disability, Look at the kind of a person she or he is first.  even a person who wears all black and looks like a Gothic person or has tattoos on them, look pass that, see what kind of person he or she is first.   Also with the deaf community, i think it time that we combine everyone and accept everyone with CI, oral, not pro ASL, PSE, SEE, hard of hearing, CODA and more so we all can learn about eachother and work together.  it makes a world a better place…

 Here is my Poem about Martin Luther King…

• Martin
• Artistic
• Robust
• Talkative
• Independent
• Narrative
• Loyal
• Understanding
• Truthful
• Hero
• Envision
• Religious
• Kind
• Intelligent
• Notable
• Grand
• Martin Luther King,
• He had many a dream
• He walked the life many of us didnt know
• To make the world better, for us to grow
• His inspiration led us many places
• Open our minds to many faces
• Lets all remind ourselves to open our mind
• And to others be kind

Deaf-Blind 7 year old triplets…

I found this interesting article about those triplets who are blind and deaf…  check out the link…   http://www.rd.com/content/hope-for-deafblind-triplets-light-in-the-dark/

Extra, Extra Deaf News!!!

 

Welcome to my good morning deaf news… Keep in mind, this is all made up news, it just being funny… So u know, all of the pictures u will see is pictures of me.

Alright I showed a picture of a little girl in the sand, that girl u see, she was the one who discovered a old underground deaf town by just digging around the sand. It was at a lake at Oklahoma state lake. What she saw underground, there were designs that had sign language and a sign that said something like town of the deaf, pop 1800. So was there really a hidden underground town, ruled by deaf people? Makes me wonder? Next picture is a group of the girl who grew up and is with group of her deaf friends. They are at the lake where the hidden town was. So she and her friends got together and went to the lake to find out more about the hidden town. So far since they been checking out the lake and cracking up some ice, they have found old buildings and old cars but no bodies at all. So the deaf people who ruled that town must have packed up and left, but where? So that girl, is hoping that someday someone will show up and tell her the answers, she hopes to know the answers some day. So if there’s someone with answers, VP this number 1-800-deaf-rules…

You see the picture of the girl with a cat? That cat is a genius cat, she is a trained cat for the deaf, u know like those dogs who are trained to be dog for the deaf. This cat will let the girl know if phone rings, alarm going off, someone at the door, or if someone is calling for her. I don’t know how they trained this cat to perform all this stuff for this girl… I am impressed…

Time for the weather news… during the week of Jan 30, 2008, In the north part of America, like Nebraska, New York, Oregon will experience summer like weather, For a week.

Which means all the snow that was up north part of America, will melt. Northeast and Northwest part of US will have temps like 60 degree days and the Midwest part of US will have temps of 75 degrees all week.

For the southern part of US, like southern California, Florida, Texas, they will have a freezing spell (30 degrees) for a week along with Snow, which means San Diego, Los Angeles CA and all over florida will have at least 6 inches of snow.

Oh hey Jon Savage, sorry for bring the snow to ur city in San Diego, I don’t mean to stop ur surfing sessions, oops, hey tell ya what, u could try snow surfing? Or we could thaw out Ocean water for you… So u can still enjoy your surfing during the freezing time….

Hello all, welcome to the Sport News… This just upcoming, Chargers, San Diego football team just won an chance to play in the Super bowl on February 5^th… Right on!!! Chargers Rule!!!

(Shown a picture of a person in wrestling outfit) Humm guess what? Someone has just been told that someone wants to wrestle with who? Was it John ABC? Humm no he wanted to wrestle with who? Gary Brooks…. WHAT? Yikes…

(Shown a picture of a baby) This just in, a 3 month old baby has won a one mile race with team of other kids, huh a baby? Wow, I’m impressed…

I will bet Chargers will win the game by 50 points…

I hope you enjoyed my news here!!! Thanks for watching Good Morning deaf news…

A challenge for all vlogger and blogger to do an deaf verison Newscast!

 

(I did not mean a long newscast and only had to do one vlog, very short funny newscast is good enough) 

Hello all… Good morning… Today I go volunteer at the library… I set up craft tables for the kids and teach some signs during story time. I also shelf books… today topic is…. I would like to challenge you all vloggers and bloggers to do an news cast deaf version. Time to bring out ur creativity, ur inner child… U know like on “good morning america” only it’s deaf version. How would u do it? Try to do like some news, and some weather and some sports, yes it can be made up, not real news like for example, new discovery is deaf men can have babies or like, WOW its snowing in San Diego, CA and Jon Savage is surfing on the snow instead of water…. Keep in mind, this is just for fun, no wins or loses… I will do my own newscast very soon… Alright hope to see ur ideas soon!!! Thanks all… Quick note, Gary Brooks, u can do it real funny, I know it… Seek Geo, ur very creative so u can do it too…. All others, u can do it….

Can you spot an deaf person in a crowd?

 

Hello all… Just so u know I just started doing transcripts to some of my older vlogs from past month… but it not all finished yet, it takes a while to do it.

Today topic is, can you spot an deaf person in a crowd? It is possible when you see them signing or using hearing aid or the way they do things when trying to talk to someone like writing on paper. There are certain ways we tend to act, we are very visual and always keep eye contact onto everything and also very facial expressive too. Also I tend to twitch my nose as a way of saying “I understand”.  Also to get someone attention I sometimes stomp the floor. What are your ways?

Embarrassing moments… When I am just coming from a hearing family, and I would go to my deaf friends house, I sometimes accidentally talk, but then of course I quickly sign. Sometimes when I am talking, I try say a word, like I would be thinking star but then when I talk, word shoe comes out, okay that’s confusing and embarrassing cuz I am trying to say something but wrong words come out. I am sure I have more embarrassing moments but can’t think of anymore.

About sign language, what is the differences between, PSE, SEE, ASL? Which is easier? To me, ASL is easier but sometimes I find it hard to know which words I can leave out while using ASL. Why are there different types of sign languages? Why not combine all the signs so it just ASL by it self? I love to sign, its soo beautiful…

How about some of those hearing people who pretend to be deaf, are they a disgrace? I would think they are a disgrace if they pretend to be deaf because it makes us deaf people look bad and it also shows that the “faker” has no respect for themself. I always wonder why do some people like to pretend to be deaf???

I just did an poll question on yahoo answers, asking ppl a question, I asked, which would they rather be, deaf or blind? Of course most of 20 people choose deaf!!! Alright here are some of good answers I got from people from yahoo answers site,

 i’d choose deaf. i would miss seeing things. i love sights, colors, seeing someone smile, cloud watching, etc. besides i’m an artist, so losing my sight would pretty much lose a lot of my talent because i wouldn’t be able to see what it was that i’m doing. also, i live with noisey lil boys, to not hear them and get headaches would be a plus.

Deaf would be ok since you can still have a drivers license and be deaf… you can’t be blind and still drive…oh wait, yes you can - in Florida! You can be legally blind and still get a driver’s license!!!

deaf for sure
because: If i couldn’t see then I’d never be able to see color, peoples faces, etc…
being deaf would be much less limiting.

Probably deaf.. because then you can read lips, etc.
I might die without music though….
so when you put on your hearing aid you can hear fine?I’m guessing your just have bad hearing, not actually complete deafness .

I would rather be blind b/c I can’t live w/o music and sounds. I can imagine what things look like. I have a great imagination.

well thats not good reasoning.
because the choice should be completely blind or completely deaf.
i would choose to be blind,because i would hate the fact that i would never hear music again.which is a very powerful thing.

Blind. I need my ears to compose my music!

deaf, because i think sign language (which i’m fluent in) is a lot easier to learn than braille.

I would rather be deaf because I love looking at things, especially pretty people.

deaf because I want to see my son, but I sure will miss hearing music

Funny quirks People have….

 

Hello all… So you all know, I fix the video camera settings so it was not backwards anymore, so it should be better now…

Today’s topic is weird quirks people have. Quirks means a peculiar behavioral habit, or a strange chance occurrence. Like Toilet paper roll, Some ppl put them on different ways with the ends facing either back way or front way, I would personally put the ends of the toilet paper facing the front way so it comes out slowly, otherwise if it was back way, it would roll down fast and use up faster. Also how some ppl will put their paper money in a correct order, face up neatly in the wallet or they just stuff the money in wallet and not worry about the order. Also in stores, like things on shelves, ppl won’t touch what is in front of them, so they take what is behind the thing. I do that too. Also when some hearing people realized I was deaf, they either get scared or say “ohh I’m soo sorry” or just walk away like I was not important.  (I know some hearing people do that, cuz they do not know what to do with a deaf person)   I would like to know your quirks? It neat to hear about other people’s quirks… My own quirks are germs, I would wash my hands quite often. Alright that all for now and I would like to know about your weird quirks…. Thanks all….

Deaf people can listen to or feel the music

 

Hello all… How are u all? I had a stomach flu yesterday on wednesday but now I am much better. Sorry about the video seems to be backwards, I am not sure how to fix the problem but as long my signs are understandable, that’s important. Thank you everyone for making comments on my vlog… I try to reply to everyone as best as I can… I enjoy everyone’s comments. Today topic is about, Deaf people can enjoy music, can they? Yes, It is possible… There are ways to do it… Some of those who are deaf and can wear hearing aids are lucky they can hear music some how. I wear hearing aid so I can hear the music with my hearing aid, but without my hearing aids, I can’t hear music at all but I can feel the vibration with music. I like music that has beats in it, like hip hop and rap, understand, I am now more careful about my selection of rap music cuz of some have a lot of swearing words. I can’t hear words and can’t understand the words in music. I would not want to be listening to a bad music in public and ppl looking at me funny cuz of all swears words in the music. So I would ask around if the CD has no swear words or try look for lyrics. So to those who are deaf and listen to music, how do u listen to music? Do u just listen to beats or what or just touch the speakers and feel music? Can some of you who are deaf understand words in music? I can use headphones with my hearing aid, it usually helps when I turn my hearing aid mode to “T”. Without my hearing aids, I can’t hear on my headphones anymore.

Why are some people not accepting of their deafness?

 

I have a imponderables question about late deafness? I have always wondered why some people who become deaf late or just deaf, don’t appreciate their deafness? Why can’t some people who don’t accept their deafness, learn to accept their deafness? In my mind, I would ask those people, what wrong with being deaf? Personally my opinion, those people who don’t accept their deafness has never been educated about deaf culture and they never learned the great things we can do as being deaf, like the beauty of sign language and we tend to be more visual about many things too and there’s more to list. Some of us who can use hearing aids are capable of basically controlling how much we want to hear. I have a friend, who was born hearing but became hard of hearing as a kid, he accepts his hearing loss but he was also born in a whole hearing family and has problems with sign language cuz of his hands and the brain won’t get along. So it makes it hard for him to sign. He often gets rejected by deaf community for that reason. So he basically kinda given up deaf community. I would never do that though. I will always love being deaf and I always have fully accepted my deafness since I was a little kid… I have deaf pride in me… I think deaf culture is very unique to me… So pls do share stories with me and ur experience with the issue about some people who don’t accept their deafness.

My love with fixer upper houses and route 66

 

I talk about my interests… I love checking out things about route 66, “the mother road” and checking out the “lost buildings” on the internet and the book. I love comparing before and after picture of things like buildings on route 66 and houses. I also love looking at fixer upper houses and houses that need work and haunted houses, I love checking them out. Thought I would never live in a fixer upper house. What about you guys? Do u like checking out haunted houses or fixer uppers houses? How about route 66? Any stories??       here the link to information about Route 66, the mother road,  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_66

link to few of fixer upper houses,  just to look at houses, 

http://www.tamparealestate.biz/

http://www.jaurequist.com/new_page_13.htm

http://faculty.deanza.edu/donahuemary/Ultimatefixer-upper

here is an link to a funny movie called “Are we done yet?”

http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/arewedoneyet/

Deaf child with special needs

 

My nick name is chilly gurlz cuz I get cold very easy.  I also noticed if I took my hearing aid off, I sign better, when I use my hearing aid, my signs are not as clear. 
Today topic is A deaf child with special needs like uses a wheel chair or blind, or needs extra help with learning, or mentally challenged.  They often times don’t have a lot of friends because, the people who don’t have the special needs won’t take the time to learn about that person who has the special needs. 
It nice when someone would take the time to try be friends with someone who is mentally challenged.  I did just that at Iowa school for the deaf.  This girl’s name is Jaime Hall, She is deaf and mentally challenged, she was in special need classes where she mostly learns life skills and things like that.  She also had problems with motor skills and her hands were not working quite right.  She did not have any friends because she could not sign too well, she does hit sometimes, also kids did not want to take a time with a mentally challenged kid.  I did take the time to be her friend and help her, each day after school,  I would do a therapy to help her with her hands and her motor skills.  Also I would try keep her company and I would invite her to my house once a while and I also went to her house couple of times on the weekends.  I did have other friends too.  In some ways, even Jaime was mentally challenged, she knew how to hook up vcrs, tvs and things that needs to be hooked up, she was quite good with that.  Sure I had some hard times with her but I was being patient.  She sometimes did hit me but I understand that she does not really understand that it not ok to hit people.  So I just tell her “no hit not nice”.  I always think it such a nice treat for someone special like Jaime to have a friend like me.  When I was a little kid, I always liked kids who were in wheel chair with cerebral palsy, I would go to them and say hi and try talk to them, they kinda reminded me of babies.  In general I like people who have special needs.  I like to help them and try be their friend.  I do have some special needs myself, like my noonans syndrome, I also have problems with my short term memory and my brain process information slowly, which is why I do not drive. 

Sign Language Help

 I have days that my sign skils seem to be lacking and my hands get stiff.  it can be Frustrated when i have days i just can’t seem to sign. I have been signing since i was one years old so i would think i would be a good signer.  I would like ur advice on how i can work on it and I would love to do an VP with someone so i can use sign.  partly, it doesn’t help that i life in a hearing world with no other deaf ppl around expect on internet.  If someone would like to do an VP with me, let me know… 

Minor/Major accidents, deaf related welcome!!!

 

To those who don’t sign, here is what i said…

For the last 2 days in florida, it was soo cold, about 25 degrees at night. During the day, it was in 40s…. It was soo cold brrr… I enjoyed the cold though cuz it reminded me of my home state of nebraska… In tampa, it did snow alittle bit last Wednesday night, Jan 2^nd… Topic today is, major and minor accidents… When I was little, sometimes I lose my hearing aids while playing or helping my mom outside. I did lose my hearing aid few times in a lake. I wanted to know if any of u hearing aids users lose ur hearing aids or just got rid of it cuz u did not like it? How about kids who don’t like them? I known some friends who would actually throw a hearing aid in toliet and flush it away. Also other accidents, when me and friends are signing, chatting, we saw someone who seemed interesting, we would start talking about that person, well what we did not realized, that person knows sign and they would not be thrilled by what we said, oops. So I guess u gotta be careful about what u sign out in public cuz someone might know some signs. About major accidents, when I was 6 years old, I was arriving home with my family in a car, it was a icy winter day, I was excited so I got out of car and ran, not thinking about the ice, and fell on the ice, hurt my head bad, I had to get about 8 stitches on the right side of forehead. I also had an bad side effect from that, I started having problems with seizures, the quiet type where u just stare into space and are not really there, I did that a lot in school too, I had to be on medication for my seizures. I had it until I was 11 years old then it was gone. Other major accident is, I wanted to drive an 3 wheeler, so my dad helped me, he sat behind me and I was up front of 3 wheeler, only problem was, I was too quick, when I pushed the starter to run the 3 wheeler, it flipped back on us and hurt us but not bad. My dad had badly scraped leg, and sore back, I only had a very sore back for a month. I would like to know about ur experiences about accidents, I would like deaf related accidents experience too… I would love to hear about the ones with accidents with hearing aids specially the kids with hearing aids. Funny stories are welcome too…

I am playing with my dog, Frankie

Me and my friend got the dog about 4 years ago…  we got him from a friend who could not have him anymore.   at first when we got him, he was very shy and scared of us for a while.  he was also kennel trained so when he was nervous, he would go into the kennel, it was his safe place.  it took him few months to warm up to us.   I was the first one he warmed up to quickly and he liked to be carried around alot and just be held like a baby.  he also likes to be burrito wrapped like a baby when he is cold.  He is a very quiet dog, only barks to let us know when there’s something wrong.  he also lets us know if phone rings, he can act as a dog for the deaf but not really trained for it. he loves to play with toys and chase things. u know funny thing is, he refuses to play outside but will play inside the house.  he only goes outside to do his business and go for a walk.  About his kennel he has, he really loves his kennel, if i took the door off of the kennel or made some changes to it, he not happy about it.  when it comes to strangers, he does get shy and alittle nervous at first but for some ppl he does warm up to u fast.  he does not like outsider dogs very much.  Frankie loves to eat just about anything even a lettuce but cuz of his stomach problems, he is on a special diet so he only eats the dry science diet kibble food from vets office.  here is frankie’s wepage i made for him…  

http://www.dogster.com/dogs/2248