ASL 2 class.

So, as all of the 0 people that read this blog know, I'm an ASL student. It's fun, I really enjoy it, and I hope to be good at it someday. I practice. I don't practice enough, but really, what is enough? Enough is NEVER enough! So, I have lately been voice off-ed in school. Or, at least I try hard. It's WAY more helpful and my classmates understand me. It's super no biggie. But anyhow, today we got our criteria for our expressive final. Should be fun. So my partner and I worked on that and then he went home. We got dismissed early because the teacher had nothing left to teach us (?!?).

Anyhow, I stayed late and talked to the teacher (I didn't get to be "teachers pet" by leaving early!) and she told me a couple things to work on during the "offseason". Eye contact. I get distracted when I'm signing and I'll look somewhere else. Obviously the person I'm talking to is going to get distracted too! I need to stay focused! Great tip!

The other thing I should work on, despite her seeing much improvement over the 1/2 semester is that I need to relax. I get really jittery and anxious and try to sign faster than I'm able. I acknowledge that, but it's hard to fix.

Last weekend made a HUGE HUGE difference in the way I sign. That much experience made me MUCH more comfortable using ASL and just doing it at my own pace and making it work. And work it does. I'm VERY happy with where I'm at for having one semester of ASL classes. I'm definitely not the best in the class. I'd say I'm up there, but we all have different strengths and weaknesses. I'm working on mine. I hope the others are, too.

I just need more practice. Always need more practice. I'm working on it. For real. More asl'ing this weekend. And I very much welcome it.