Iowa school for the deaf was on TV news as coolest school!!!

Check out the link!!!  it shows videos of whats happens in school and what soo cool about ISD, BUT unfortunate, it not captioned…

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/11771981.html

here is cool “look” it tell you everything about ISD,   http://www.iadeaf.k12.ia.us/pdfs/isdlookbook.pdf

also Iowa school for the deaf webpage has been updated with new look, it soo cool!!!

http://www.iadeaf.k12.ia.us/index.php

Why going to a school for the deaf a wonderful idea?

In my past vlog i did about deaf school VS public school, some people were asking me questions…  http://chillygurlz.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/differences-between-deaf-schools-and-public-schools/#comments

One person asked how i felt when Nebraska school for the deaf closed?  I felt, heart broken, lost, sad.  I was worried i won’t see my friends again.   I also was sad that Nebraska lost their own deaf school.  but at least i got to go to Iowa school for the deaf which was only 12 miles from NSD.  i did get to see my friends from NSD, at ISD but some never made it to go to ISD. 

One ask, should it be a LAW that all deaf kids go to a school for the deaf?  i don’t think so because,  some kids really rather go to a public school, some deaf kids are happy being with other hearing students at school.  some deaf kids choose to not sign, they rather be oral or only use cued sign or whatever else. 

Couple ask,  would my kid really benefit going to a school for the deaf?   Yes, depending on situation, my advice, if your daughter/son is struggling in mainstream school, then maybe u should check into sending her to a school for the deaf, it will really benefit her/him, with social skills, more attenion from teachers due to small size classmates.   i used to be really shy in mainstream school and had a hard time with school work. when i started deaf school in middle school, i was doing better with school work and more social and alot less shy. I also became more mature myself at deaf schools. i had more friends too. she/he will have alot of good role models at the deaf school i am sure… i know it can be hard to leave ur daughter/son in a dorm at a young age if u live far away from the deaf school. but it can be good cuz then she will have a full interaction with deaf kids too at the dorm and house parents are usually very good role models and always have something for kids to do and very helpful… so give it a try to send ur kid to a deaf school!!!

My Childhood pets!!!

 

Hello all…  welcome to my vlog about my childhood pets…  the first picture you will see,  is a cute puppy in the snow, i just had to show you the picture, although it not my puppy lol…  alright enjoy rest of my vlog…    

alright now next picture is a pic of my cousins dogs, a brown lab dog and a white terrier mix dog.  my cousin and his dad tend to take the brown lab dog hunting with them, the dog seems to enjoy hunting, it a very active strong sweet dog.   the white dog is a sweet dog, i take her and the brown lab dog for a walk whenever i go visit my cousin but the brown lab was a challenge to walk cuz he was soo strong.

next picture,  it a picture of my black lab dog, name Ruby.  she was such a sweet cute dog.  I had her since i was about 3 years old, until i was about 9 or 10.  she passed away from stomach problems or something.   When i was a little girl  about 4 or 5, whenever my family and i went to lake to a cabin, i would be wandering off of the property, my dog Ruby would follow me along to make sure i did not get lost.  Ruby always watched out for me.  Ruby was a sweet, gentle, never bark or bite smart dog.  she also had few litters of puppies too…    she is definitely everyone’s best friend…  I miss Ruby very much… 

next picture, you will see a picture of the mini dachshund that belongs to my friend’s parent.  she is cute and wearing Christmas decoration on her body lol.  her name is Dinky. 

next picture,  you will see pictures of my brother’s cat, name Patches.  we had her since i was about 4 years old, she lived for about 16 years.  cat is sweet,  loves to purr and rub on people’s legs.  she loves to chase mices and hide and sit in sun and loves feeling warm.  course she does not like water.  she loves being outside,  she has brought home few gifts like a bird on the doorstep, yikes.   she meows alot.  I admit, i was alittle mean to the cat when i was very little.  

next picture,  I had guinea pigs when i was about 7 to 10 years old.  my mom did too when she was little.   i love guinea pigs, they are neat. 

next picture,  You know what?  I used to have a pet tiger…  look for yourself, upcoming picture. 

oh oh i was kidding lol…  the one tiger pic you saw was from Nebraska school for the deaf, it a statue.  other pic was at the zoo, i was petting a cub. 

next picture,  you will see pictures of my dad’s dogs, they are Australian Shepard.   They are nice dogs too, i visit them whenever i go visit my dad. 

next picture,   pictures of horses, did i ever own a horse, no i didn’t but would love to.  I love to ride horses.  the pictures you will see, it was at camp taloali, in oregon, it is a camp for the deaf kids to go to.   

ASL storytelling for deaf and CODA kids and everyone!!!

I found this book called “A cold snap!” by Audrey B. Baird, Illustration by Patrick O’Brien and publishing by Boyds mills press.   I thanks them for giving me permission to read this book to you all.  Reason i read this book, cuz it related to cold winter today and i like winter time.  my nick name is chilly gurlz cuz i like cold or i get cold very easy.  I enjoy reading books to kids and anyone…

 Video part 1

You all might want to turn on your heaters, so u can enjoy the story. 

page 6 &7,  Caution,   put on a sweater to read this book.   don’t leave the door open.  turn up thermostat.   grab an afghan.   Words like balmy, warm, and mild won’t have a chance here.   words like nippy, crisp, and cold own this book.   cold- a shivery word.   it should be written like this  COLD  be careful using this biting word.  it could nip the nose of neighboring nouns.  turn adjectives to ice,  F R E E E E E Z E the whole page  COLD don’t touch it without mittens!

page 8&9,   Everyone talks about the weather,   A teeth-chattering october morning for putting away summer’s belongings.     Everyone in the neighborhood is out.  Seems they’re all talking about the weather.   “Gettin nippy” says mr Roxbury, waving as he passes.  “A snap to the air.” says the UPS man at the curb.   “puts roses in your cheeks.”  says Mrs. Peepshaw on her way to work.  “Need a nose muffler,”  Mr. Rimmer complains on his morning walk.     “chilly one!” calls andy inch, delivering papers.  “Need your long johns today.”  says the mail carrier, stomping his feet.    “freezing!”  barks Mr. Sook from under the hood of his car.  “cold too,”  laughs jesse Daw’s grandpa from across the street.   “Another log on the fire tonight,”  says Mr. Desmond next door.  “Another blanket on the bed, you mean,”  my dad adds, putting away the hose.   “cold air goes right through ya,” says the trash man.   “The north wind doth blow,”  mom says, covering the roses.   “wide stripes on the woolly bears this year,” says my Gram from the door.  “Bad winter ahead. Caterpillars never lie.”

page 10,  Trees and me,  Trees undress in November,  dropping their clothes where they stand.  I wonder if Mother Nature shakes her head and says,  “socks and underwear everywhere!”  like my mother does.      A cold Snap!   Naked trees shivering near the river bridge.   Chimney smoke quivering along the river ridge.  Frosty air shimmering in the river cove.  Chicken stew smelling good on the kitchen stove.

Thanks again to  Audrey B. Baird and Patrick O’Brien and Boyds mills press

Video part 2 

Page 18,  With Crackers, please,   Chili weather!   On the stove, in a pot, cooking-   not in the air, spelled like this:  C-H-I-L-L-Y.   Well, the smell of the chili is in the air,  but only because the air is… well… chilly-   as in: if it weren’t for chilly, we wouldn’t need chili.

Page 20,  Approaching storm,  December. late afternoon.  wind rising. temperature dropping.  sky turns icy, glacier-green.  wind roars in from the arctic.  Weather vane shifts, wpinning west, east, west  hurling out weather with a capital W.  Wild! Wailing! Windswept! Winter!

Page 23,  Come January…,  My feet get colder than anybody’s in the winter, I’ll bet.  How cold?  Colder than watermelon iced in the creek.  Colder than lemonade on the 4th of july.  My feet get colder than popsicles.  Actually my feet gets colder than icebergs, snowballs, and slush all put together!.  But that’s nothing compared to how cold my nose gets.

Page 25,  What Below-zero temperatures mean to me,   5 degrees below zero: wind chill temperature might be 39 degrees below.   10 degrees below zero: bigger wind chill.  Mom turns on radio in the morning for WCCO’s school closings.   I stay in bed, waiting.  Get up! My school does not close.   15 below zero, WCCO says “no morning kindergarten; several private schools closed; buses one hour late.”   Get up! my school isn’t closed.   20 below zero; cco reports many school closings (still not mine); no morning kindergarten; buses two hours late.   25 below zero; all schools close-  even mine!   I leap out of bed and telephone my friends.  no school!  P.S. it’s not fair when we get 25 below zero on a weekend. 

page 28,  Hurry home 15 Below zero,  I’ve got me the chillies, The knee-knocking dillies.   I’ve goosebumps and shivers and bone-shaking quivers.   I’M stiff as a board now from toes to my eyebrow.  I’m aching and quaking so icy i’m breaking.  quick!  pile logs on the fire before i expire.

page 32,  Add it up   A soft feather quilt + a raw wintry night = sleeping, polar-bear warm

thanks for watching my vlog

Thanks again to  Audrey B. Baird and Patrick O’Brien and Boyds mills press

Differences between deaf schools and public schools!

 

Hello all… Hope u all had a good week.. My week was alright… I want to talk about deaf schools VS public schools. My opinions about deaf schools and public schools. Link to list of schools for the deaf, http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/schools-usa.html First I wanted to show you somethings from my childhood, (shows girls scout brownie apparel) I was in girls scouts at age 7 to 9, with group of my deaf friends. I had fun with my friends with girls scout. I also show, Gallaudet banner, I got it from my friend. I have never been there before though but would love to visit one day. I used to go to nebraska school for the deaf, (I show the letter N) I enjoyed NSD but I had to join Iowa school for the deaf after NSD closed. After I left Iowa school for the deaf, I moved to Oregon, I went to Grants pass high school for my senior year. (Shows letter G from the high school. I graduated in year 2002. My high school mascot was, (shows mini flag, it a cavemen) here the link to the school, http://www.grantspass.k12.or.us/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=102

the school was newly built 9 years ago since they torn down the old building. The buildings are awesome!!!Alright now back to my topic about deaf schools and public schools. I used to go to Prescott elementary school with deaf program in it. I liked both, deaf school and public school, depending on situation. Public schools classrooms tend to be big sized like 20 to 30 students, they do have interpreters and plus there is usually a class time where all deaf kids get together like a homeroom and review about the day in all other classes and do fun things, Deaf school tend to be small class, about 3 to 8 students at a time. I like small classes better personally. Public schools, u have to worry to make sure u have an interpreter for ur class, while with deaf school, u already have a teacher who signs. Public schools, u interact with hearing and deaf students and u can communicate however way you want by just talking or talk and sign or just sign. with Deaf schools, You interact with only Deaf / Hard Of Hearing students. It a deaf culture and community at deaf schools also it required that we all sign at the schools. It does depend on some schools though, I know there are some oral deaf school where u only allowed to speak and lip read. Public schools don’t have dorms for kids to stay at after school. Deaf schools have dorms for kids to stay at if they live far away from the school or wanted to stay at dorm to interact with deaf students. Dorms are great, it allow the kids to interact with each other especially deaf kids who only have hearing family. Like me, I am only deaf kid in my hearing family so it was a great advantage for me to stay at dorms to allow me to interact with other deaf kids… So I enjoyed staying at dorm but same time I missed my family too. Some kids at deaf schools are day students where they just go home right after school. At dorms, house parents try to keep us busy by doing different things like going out, doing different things at dorms and we get to go to teen center on campus to hang out with all students. I like both, deaf school and public school in different ways, with deaf schools, I can socialize with deaf students, smaller classmate numbers, teacher signs, so don’t have to try focus on 2 different people, interpreter and teacher at same time. Alright so I would like your feedbacks, comments, or your experiences so feel free to leave a comment about Deaf school and public school. Thanks for watching my vlog…

Aren’t we glad Internet exist today?

Hello all… Hope you had a wonderful valentine week… Today topic is “is internet helpful today?”… I am just sharing my opinions. Of course I think it is very helpful today to have internet. Its good for communication, researching information, learning new information, we can find everything, more then we can imagine. E-mails are wonderful and its free or cheaper. Quicker then the postal office, (sorry postal office snail mail). Cool website like myspace.com, facebook.com, we can google up people and find our old friends. Internet is just like library, but we should still go to the library building once a while cuz librarians like to be appreciated. Feel free to share ur opinions with me in the comments.

I now share my opinion about cons of Internet. Being hooked onto the internet for very long period of times is one, course I am kinda hooked onto the internet and a lot of people are. Understand, its better then being hooked onto drugs, gambling, drinking and smoking. Its not always good to be hooked onto the internet cuz then u miss out ur family events or ur friends or outside activity. Cyberbullies is other thing. All of us, especially kids have to be careful when talking to new people on internet, we don’t know. Some of the people we talk to could be someone else they say they are like a 40 year old pretend to be a 12 year old kid. We also have to be careful about what personal information we give out on any websites or anyone we don’t know. So what your opinions about the cons of internet?

I have a question for you all… What do u think would happen if internet would be shut down, we cannot use the internet for a week? I think some people will either, go crazy or there would be a riot, or some people would be overjoyed, happy cuz it means they can get the family together and go out and have fun. Hang out with friends outside more. I would think people would be outside more if there was no internet for a week. I know there are some families who might have one or two person who is always on the computer, seems like never really interact with the family or outside friends. Some people just need to learn to balance out their time on the internet and family / friend time, that also makes everyone happy too.

Internet is also wonderful for us who are deaf too, especially with communication, IP-relay, vlogging, expressions, and more… So feel free to share ur comments, opinions on my comment box… Thanks for watching my vlog…

Cyber Deaf World!

 

Hello all… How ur week? Next week is valentine day!! A day for couples, friends and family to say “I love you”… For some people, it can be depressing too but it does not have to be that way. Next, today topic is “cyber deaf world”… Before cyber deaf world even existed, deaf culture or community were all in smaller groups and only knew eachother from the same area, it was not common to know a lot of other deaf people out of state. So I noticed, after internet came out, deaf community has started to grow even bigger and accepting more people with varies kinds of hearing loss like HOH, cochlear implant and oralist along with those who are total deaf and uses ASL. When I was about age, 14 I was learning about internet and looked up deaf sites, so I did find a deafzone.com chat room and join there… My first nick name was RRB. I remember few ppl that used to be in there. Eventually deafzone chatroom got shutdown and then deafchat.com came up. My nick name for that was lil yaz. It was a alright place for few years then it started dying and not a lot of good talks from people in there, it was just a joke sometimes. I stopped going there in year 2000. I just found out deaf chat has been shut down this last month or so but I dunno when it happened or when it will be back. You know what, I am glad I found deafread few months ago, it a perfect place for me, I actually like vlogging more then chatting… I just like to express myself. Alright, I would like to know, were any of u ever in deafzone, or deafchat.com? Which do u like the best? Deafzone, deafchat.com or deafread? I think deafread ROCKS. So tell me ur feedbacks, comments, how u feel? Alright thanks for watching my vlog.

Babies, be good!!!

 

Hello all.. I tell u about, since I was a very little kid, I always loved to find cute baby picture books and as I got older and was reading I started to read books about how to take care of babies and read books about babies in general. I love babies in general, I have a good material instinct around babies. When I got older I started babysitting a newborn from my mom’s friend, I was 14 at that time. I also volunteer at a daycare, helping with little babies. Today I still go visit the daycare to see babies whenever I visit nebraska. In high school, I choose to babysit a baby over going to the prom. To me it was more fun to babysit back then. I like babies cuz they are precious, innocent, and have soft skin, small hands, cute little feets. They have a wonderful laugh, they like ppl for who they are, they don’t really judge people. In some ways, they are pretty smart cuties. They have a cute laugh when u tickle them. I always wonder why is it sometimes sad to see them already grown up? I sometimes feel that way with the kid who I babysat 11 yrs ago, I still visit her sometimes when I am in Nebraska. Sometimes I have to remind myself, ok this kid is 11 not a baby anymore. I know we should appreciate them growing up and getting older. My body can’t have a baby because I am missing some hormones for my body. That why when I get to hold someone’s baby, I always appreciate being able to hold a baby for short time and I also go visit the daycare so I can help out with the babies. I do a little poem about baby. To those who are parents or babysitters, You can tell me your funny stories like silly mistakes u made with your baby? Like putting on diapers backwards or forgetting to warm up bottle before feeding the baby or anything like that? Its okay to make silly mistakes with ur baby, that what I learned, making mistakes sometime is what teaches you to not repeat that thing again. I would love to hear ur stories so feel free to leave comments on my vlog… I also have few pictures for you all to see too on my vlog, some is pictures of me and some is the baby, I babysat long time ago. Thank you for watching my vlog.

How well can you fingerspell?

 

Hello all… My dog Frankie wanted to show u his toy and he was signing toy too… I wanted to talk about fingerspelling. I wonder how fast can we finger spell? I also show u my left hand, the thumb on that hand do not bend at all, cuz I don’t have the muscles to help it bend, I was born with it. So my left hand make it harder to sign sometimes and it had hard time fingerspell. It cannot sign 6 or w. I displayed how my left hand does with spelling by doing ABC’s then I show how fast I can finger spell with my right hand. I am average but do pretty good. I always wonder who is the fastest finger speller? Thanks for watching my vlog…

Growing up in Today’s world!!!

Hello all… Welcome to my vlog… I have a story to tell you all… I wrote this story when I was in high school at Iowa School for the Deaf. I did win a award for writing this story…

Growing up in Today’s world

Why do I think today’s world is better? Well, in the past there was a lot more negative stuff going on. For example, there were quite a lot of wars and bad politics and president JFK was killed by a man. US was also worried about the atomic bomb back then. We also had things like child labor, which meant young children had to work to earn money for their families. Children had to work at Coal mines, factories and stuff. In the past children were not protected by law and were mistreated more often. A lot of times people ending up getting diseases and there was no cure. Capital punishment for prisoners, even if their crimes were no big deal, was more tolerated. Lower levels of education, poor health care, not enough respect for disabled people, and prejudice were all common.There were a few positive things about the past, like less crime, population, divorce, and pollution, but I think today’s world is better.

. Today is still dangerous in some ways because it seems like there are more crimes. The wars of today are more terrible because of bombings and better technology. We have had shootings in schools and a few people in the world still mistreat children, like in third world areas where there are places that lots of young kids have to work for clothes or shoes companies. There are also some prejudiced people that make fun of people who are different than they are. All of these things still happen today, but still we have some better things today than we did in the past. Yes there are alot of good postive things happened today like all the new good technology and postive things…

In the past, the deaf world was not equal with the hearing world. Hearing people did not accept deafness. In most areas, signing was not accepted because hearing people thought signing was insulting or dumb. There were no programs for deaf children in public schools before 1975. All the deaf kids did in school was sit there and learn very little. Then they would get punished for not paying attention. There were no interpreters in public schools. There were weird hearing aids that were so big it embarrassed deaf people to wear them out in public. Many jobs did not accept deaf people. In many ways the hearing people looked down on deaf people in the same way that some white people looked down on black people. There was prejudice!

Now, for example, we have the American With Disablities Act to help protect the rights of the disabled. We have child labor laws in many countries to protect children from being forced to work at a young age. We also have worked to have laws that support equality for people of all color skins.

Well since 1975 deaf culture has gotten much better treatment. There are now TTYs, video phones, pagers, sidekick, texting, closed captions, interpreters, A.D.A. laws, hearing dogs, better sign language, less prejudice, programs for deaf children in public schools. We have T.T.Y. pay phones in public, flashing lights for phones and doorbells, vibrating watches. Deaf people are allowed to have any kind of jobs that they would like to have, although Deaf people are still not allowed to fully join the Army. They but can be nurses, but that is not enough. Deaf people can still can sense shooting and do what hearing people can do in the Army. Just give deaf people a chance and we can do anything. Basically, we all deaf people can do everything but hear and that it…