Rita’s expressive vlog

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Is being in your 20’s full of questions?

Posted by chillygurlz on June 23, 2008

hello all…  how are u all?  i am good,  today what i am thinking about?  u know, today i am 25 years old, (not my birthday lol)  which means i am a quarter of a century.  u know during the 20’s, it is full of questions about who am i, what do i want to do?  when i was about 18, i left my mom’s house and went to oregon to live with my friend.  i felt my mom was treating me like a child.  i just wanted to prove to her, i am a adult.  of course i did it very early on.  of course i was confused about who i am and what do i want.  sure there were times i acted like a kid during my 20’s.  I did graduate Grants pass high school in Oregon on my independents.  also since few years, i been feeling like i am in middle of a rope, being pulled by my family and my friend.  sometimes i felt like cutting the rope and running away or go explore myself.  it can be confusing sometimes being 25.  leaving my family at age 18 was kinda a big deal to me,  sometimes i regret what i did but at same time i am glad i did leave my family for while.   i just want to know how ur 20’s were like?  was it hard to balance yourself about being a adult or being a kid?  i never got wild or went to any wild parties or did any drugs or drank alcoholat all, i was just a clean person.  but i was kinda selfish and just think of myself alotin my young 20’s but today, all that has changed, i am more thinking of others, helping other, being sweet, being lovely, very nice to others.  20’s can be a confusing decade, but i am sure in 30’s, 40’s and on can be as confusing too.  so far in my 20’s i have learned alot of wisdoms, morals from other people.  I have learned what i like, like working out, vlogging, taking care of kids, enjoying the nature and i love animals alot too.  I am sure i have alot of lessons to learn during my 20’s…  it just a pathway to adulthood, away from childhood, but we adults can play like kids sometimes at the right times like at home or party or with kids.  alright thanks for watching my vlog… 

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Silliest mistakes a child like me could make…

Posted by chillygurlz on June 22, 2008

Hello all… sup with u all?  i am good here.  today i want to talk about silly or bad mistakes a child can make.  I will tell u about my silly or bad mistakes i made as a kid.  I can Remember first mistake i made when i was 6 years old, i went for a bike ride on tricycle around an block, i saw a bee flying around and it laid on the side walk, i was dumb enough to use my hand and hit the bee on the sidewalk and i got sting by the bee on my hand, Ouch but luckily i was not allergic to the bees.  it did kinda swell up on my hand but i never told my parents about it.  when i was around 8 years old, i used to steal my brother’s underwear and clothes to use cuz i wanted to be a tomboy.  of course i threw rocks at things sometimes.   when i was about 7, i was across the street from my dad’s house,  i was dressed like a boy, there was a girl, we met and chatted alittle, she suddenly kissed me, i was like whoa ok.  my dad caught that and was mad for dumb reason.  when i was about 9 or 10 years old, i felt i was not getting enough attention from my parents, so i went around the block with a stick in my hand, scratched up all of the cars on the hood, and i took a big rock and went across street to small shopping center and threw the rock at a windshield of the van.  yes it was very bad but it been forgiven and forgotten.   also i used to fake a run away few time, but i was hiding in the house, i would write a note that i ran away.   whenever i went to my dad’s house, he has few dogs there, but he not always nice to the dogs, there was one dog i loved very much, i did not like the way dad treated the dog, her name was Brassy, so whenever i could i would secretly take brassy out and walk her back to my mom’s house and keep her there.   when i was around 16 years old, i did something really dumb at Iowa school for the deaf,  I got on the picnictable and jumped off of the table onto my knees on the hard ground, of course it hurt alot but it did not break.  so i was luckly.  so tell me ur silly or bad mistakes u made as a kid…  thanks for watching my vlog… 

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My Childhood memory at Lake leba from year 1985

Posted by chillygurlz on June 16, 2008

This video is my home video from 1985, u will see small part of me when i was 2.  also you will see a small part where kids are doing BMX bike racing.
You will see kids swinging from rope into water, little kids playing in lake, water skiing, riding 3 wheeler, just having fun at Lake Leba…  My family had this cabin for about 50 years now and the cabin is still in good shape, but it is very small.

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My previews of my childhood short films…

Posted by chillygurlz on May 21, 2008

I show u previews of my short childhood plots… Kids are playing in driveway riding around the car, also, i am getting off of school bus on my last day of school and i had clips of me being very silly kid,  i plan to show you more childhood films in future too so here the previews…   I will post my tour of Nebraska school for the deaf videos soon, i am still doing some work on some of my clips…

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Differences between deaf schools and public schools!

Posted by chillygurlz on February 23, 2008

 

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…

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

Posted by chillygurlz on January 17, 2008

 

(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….

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Confessing about my old self…

Posted by chillygurlz on December 16, 2007

 I talk about the way i was, i was childlike adult for short time.  examples… (age 9)  When i was at the store i wanted something, my mom said no, i would act like a 5 year old and complain out loud.  when I talked, i talked very loud even at 10 years old.  when i was doing something annoying, i kept going on about it and made it more annoying.  in general, even at 12 years old, my social skills and behavior was more like a 6 to 8 yrs old.  for other things, i was responsible about somethings like i could walk to the mall all on my own at age 10 and could walk just about anywhere.  I could cook somethings on the stove and do oth er things.  I mainly had problems with my social skills and how to behave around people.  Also that was why i did not have alot of friends as a kid but i am lucky i had a wonderful patient friend like Daisy and few others.  Today i am glad i had a friend like Robert who taught me to grow up and how to behave around people and am doing much better with myself and have better self esteem.  even now i still have some glitches to work on… 

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