Let’s start off with the basics! c:
1- Fingerspelling
Practice in a mirror. Make each letter, and study how it looks from the front and then the back. A good way to kill two birds with one stone: don’t learn A,B,C… learn a sentence like: ”The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” It has…
Music to my eyes.
Whenever I try to explain why ASL is so special to me, I get all flustered trying to come up with words to express how ASL moves me. Even when I couldn’t put together a phrase in sign language, I would sit in amazement of how others could articulate their thoughts without being verbal.
People who know me know I love to talk. I love to have conversations with people, & I love getting to know people. Before I could really express myself in ASL, I would sit around almost jumping out of my seat with thoughts & ideas that I wanted to say but couldn’t. It was the most amazing feeling whenever I was able to communicate my thoughts in sign language! That’s what kept me going.
ASL has always felt like an extension of me, even when it felt so foreign. ASL gives me a completely new way of expressing myself: visually. My personality is very verbal, but ASL turns my voice off & forces me to communicate through seeing; like music to my eyes.
I have even met some hearing people that say it’s easier for them to express themselves through ASL. For me, ASL is form of self-expression that I really connect with. For some, ASL is their only form self-expression. Many D/deaf/HOH, of course, use ASL as their main mode of communication. That’s what they created it for! But it’s interesting how even hearing people can connect with ASL on a deep level.
ASL/sign language is so special; different than any other language. I could be standing across a room from another person & as long as we can see each other, we can communicate. No matter how far away we are, we’re connected. No words. No voice. Just hands. As a hearing person, this never ceases to amaze me.
ASL has benefited me so much as a person, & still all I can do is sit in gratitude & try to think of what I could do to give back some of what it’s given me <3
Dale Allyn Zusi plotted out what she needed, how best to get it, then she went out and got it.
As a result the Arizona State University coed was one of 20 women in the country to receive a four year Army ROTC scholarship.
Miss Zusi daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Zusi, 5523 N 23rd Ave., Phoenix, will receive tuition, laboratory fees plus $100 monthly sub allowance from the scholarship.
“The first thing that attracted me was the scholarship” she said, “Then I wanted to do biological research in a place that has a decent laboratory and I figured the federal government could do that. And it would benefit the most people.”
Miss Zusi is a graduate of Phoenix West High School -11th in her class of 573- said ROTC was her favorite subject next to biology, her major.
“Some of the girls arc dropping but I really like it” she said. She at tends classes with the male ROTC cadets and participates in the military studies and drills.
Its optional, but I even went out to the range and fired the M-16 rifle” she said.
Miss Zusi, who learned last week she won the scholarship, said that upon graduation she will be commissioned a second lieutenant and assume a four year active duty obligation in the army.
“Hopefully I’ll be in a hospital where I can do all the biological research” she said.
At ASU, Miss Zusi, a freshman, is active in the Pershing Rifles, a military honorary and the Pershing Rifles Honor Guard.
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thats my MOMA!
She was one of 20 women first allowed into the US ROTC college program at Arizona State University in 1972.
my mom is bad ass.
<3
Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
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| — | ~ Victor Hugo (via ilice) |
3 Important Dont’s
- Don’t promise when you’re happy.
- Don’t reply when you’re angry.
- Don’t decide when you’re sad.
^ I would just change the first line from “happy” to another word like “emotional” or “excited”
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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| — | John Lubbock (via tiffanythill) |
