Close but no cigar...

I'm actually blogging on the right day today. I'm proud of myself. Well, we got our grades for the group project and our recipe assignments. I thought I did somewhat better on the group interpreting than I really did. My biggest problem with that assignment, I forgot the expansions! I think I was trying to focus so hard on the message and getting the point across that I forgot those key tools to use when switching to ASL. I must give kudos to Jasmin and Rachel for thinking outside the box and making the assignment pretty hard. If you would have asked me to give them kudos on the day we did it, umm...sorry. It's a time lapse thing. But seriously, I'm glad it was something challenging to see how we would really do. As for the recipe assignment, it's the opposite, I did better than I thought. Completely not complaining about that! I'm glad I did good, even though my confidence wasn't up very much.

The video that we had to interpret for today was challenging too. The vocals on it were so loud and I guess there were so many other noises on it that it was hard to tell what the teacher was talking about. Once I did understand some of it, it wasn't any easier really to show the right way to show the concepts. We can show things visually a thousand different ways but to really show it in the right way is difficult.

Ruby's class...'Later Gator'...is that an idiom? I'm not sure but somebody just said it to me so thought I'd throw it in there. I guess I never really thought about making things idiomatic when we're signing too. We focus on making things in the most idiomatic way when we're voicing but we haven't really been taught and exposed to ASL idioms as much. We've picked up a few here and there but never sat down and said, 'Hey, these are idioms. Use them.' Okay, so we only have about 96 more to learn. YAY! We'll all be shedding some more 'crocodile tears' while we're trying to learn these the next week and a half while we're getting 'down to the wire.'