so i learned the deaf equivalent of the 'slow clap' tonight.
You know that moment when someone is umming and ahhing about whether or not they will perform on stage and the audience gets that laughing slow clap going and then speed up and bust out in applause? yeah the deaf version. soooo coool. it starts with putting your arms up in the air and then down and then up again in the same rhythm you would with the slow clap. and then you stomp your feet on the floor, slow at first then faster and faster and faster like you do on bleachers at a sports game, because they can feel the vibrations through the floor.
soooooooo fun
it was basically an amazing awesome night. I went with Margaret (my amte nic's mum) to watch the Storyfest 2006. IT's an annual signlanguage competition, where people come together to see who can tell the best sign language story. It was sooo funny, and sooooooooooooooo amazingly good to get back into sign language and deaf culture again. In the intermission, I also managed to catch up with my old NZSL teacher Sonia, and we had an awesome talk catching up on everything that has been going on. She doesn't know this yet, but hopefully i will be able to have a few coffees with her to pick up some of the basics of American Sign before I come back to Vancouver.
Soooo exciting. This is the biggest natural high, soooo much better than TV! and coming from me who just spent 4 hours NOT TALKING, that's pretty sweet, and yet a dramatic turn of events.
Had a bit of a crazy God thing last night. Went along to my mate Lou's church and some stuff was goin on, and have come away feeling kinda overwhelmed, but with a lot to think about.
On an amazing note, my support has just broken the $900 mark!!!!! God is good!
And if any of you reading would like a support pack, and a groovy magnet you just let me know. KEep up the praying!
I'm getting my eyes checked tomorrow. another irony about working at the foundation of the blind and being obsessed with sign language. but yeah, we'll see how it goes. new glasses woudl not be a great thing to have to buy now, but better that than not seeing right.
So yeah, it's been an amazingly wonderful night.
And now i'm gonig to bed
love you lots
email me you crazy cats
hill