Sign Language so fun

by Abigail
(NM, U.S.A)

Monday I went to a meeting for sign language. Since not so many people there are deaf, different people are willing to learn a new language which in this case is sign language so we can fill up the meeting and help out. Many of my friends go there. I am only eleven. I love your classes. I am starting Unit 4 and I barely started Monday evening.

If it weren't for my schoolwork I would have finished all the Units by now. I'm homeschooled so I have many advantages that other kids who go to public school don't. I just love sign language. Sign language is my favorite language that I know out of all 6 languages I know and that I'm learning on. I hope that someday I can get a job on teaching sign language like you, or when someone needs help but they can't understand anyone, I can help out.

I really like to learn a lot of new things. If only I could use my brain to the full. In recent studies scientists said that the average person only uses 1/10 or 1% of their brain. I think though, that Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Edison, and other great scientists used about 4% more of their brains. I like to think a lot.

I actually had to do a project the other day and it was on creating an invention that could help people and what I had thought of was creating a special phone for the deaf so when it shakes and shakes they can answer it and they can set it up into the platform and then a screen would come up and they can see each other on the screen and can communicate and if a person cannot see what the other signed you can put subtitles or those words that come out on the bottom of a movie screen so you can understand what they tried to sign. I don't think my invention would really work though.

I don't like to leave negative thoughts so there is one more thing I'd like to mention. If you have the opportunity, whoever's reading this, that you can learn something new, take advantage of it. If it's a new language, a new sport, how to fish, a new hobby such as what I do crochet or knitting, whatever. Take it to the full advantage or just even try to improve on something, or even experiment and improvise when cooking or learning some thing new. Take advantage of that.