Always an open chair

While it is officially spring break, as of today I guess, I still need to write about Friday. I don't know why I can't remember to blog every Friday it seems. Actually I do know why I didn't this past Friday. Let's see, was it that the portfolio was due, we had a performance test in Ruby's class, we went over a ton of stuff in the blue book, and oh yeah, what was the other one? Oh, we had a six hour workshop afterwards. No, all that wasn't that bad in the end, I'm just sounding dramatic.

The portfolio.....I was a little worried about this one, if you have read any of my previous blogs. The biggest reason for the anxiety was just because I've never really put a true portfolio together. But, after it's all said and done now, I am glad that we were required to do one. It at least gives us a pretty great basis for taking with us for possible employment and that's a really great thing, even if we were somewhat stressed about the grade part of it. We can now say we have something professional-looking to have in our hands when we walk in to see someone about a job. There truly is a rhyme and reason to our madness. haha.

Okay, on to Ruby's performance test. I sat and signed what I was going to present over and over in my head and before we went in there. And then...I get up in front of everyone and thought I was okay for a minute, that is until my mind went completely blank. Overall I think I did alright but I just kinda froze up there. I think for me sometimes, it is easier for me to sign something when there is a message being voiced or when there is at least a smidgen of noise in the room. It's the dead silence that gets me every time.

The workshop was pretty good overall. Again, it was finding some reason to the rhyme I guess. I understood the general concept but it just wasn't sinking in my head the way I was wanting it to. As April said and I think I do categorize things to some degree when I'm interpreting and signing but it can always be improved upon. It was definitely an interesting method of categorizing information in the message. And we were able to do some more of the play on word sentences. You never really think how many different ways one word in the English language can be constrewed until you get ten different examples of the same word with ten different meanings.

And lastly for tonight, for any of you who have an idea of the dilemmas I've been making myself face here recently, I still have a LOT of thinking to do but I think I am closer to a decision than before. That may only make sense to a very few of any of you who may be reading my blog but...I hope you all know what your near future holds and if not, start thinking because it creeps up fast! Thanks again April, for your advice, and for you and Ruby always having a chair open. I'm sure it will be occupied again.