Revelation

When writing an email to my awesome Auntie Val I had an "aha" moment (as Oprah would call it) about the diminishing frequency of my blog posts. Thanks for the inspiration Aunt Val! There will probably be a shift in the subjects of my blogs soon and hopefully an increase in frequency because of it.

My message went a little something like this:

I am so happy that you are keeping up with my blog posts even though lately I have been slacking on their frequency, it is just now that I am in the routine of things here the blog topics don't jump out at me anymore. A lot of the time I am just eating food at the dining hall, going to class, chatting with friends, buying groceries, doing homework, and lots of other boring things that I figure no one would really care to read about. And then when I do finally do something of interest, for example all of my traveling, I am way too overwhelmed with information to choose what to say and exhausted from the trip to write it all down... the traveler's dilemma. 

There are so many street dogs and cats here I love it. On campus I have this one special dog that I call Shadow (he is known to others as Jack) and he is a cute skinny black mutt of a creature but has the sweetest face and likes to patrol campus over by the northern dorms. I also have this one special cat that I call Sebastian, he is white with brown and grey large blotches, his whole tale is grey and that is his identifying characteristic. He will trot right up to you and plop over onto his belly as an obvious invitation for you to give him a nice rub down. However recent events have developed that lead me to believe that Sebastian is actually a Sabrina because, as reports from my friends tell me, his belly has swollen up something large with hints of pregnancy! :) I hope the rumors are true and a litter of adorable little kittens are running around in the common area soon!

I am very excited to read that book you have mentioned, I don't know what it is particularly about deafness and sign language that intrigues me so much but whatever it is, I love learning about it. People keep asking me, "oh what do you plan on doing after you graduate next year?" and I just stare back at them dumbfounded that I have reached a point in my life where this question is even realistically proposed to me. I find myself drawn to the idea of grad school but for what subject I don't know. I plan on taking a year or more off after graduating from UNCW and going through ASL interpreter school (or whatever it's called) and paying my own way through grad school working as an Interpreter. 

When I was in Rome and we were looking for the Trevi Fountain we first passed by the Memorial to the Unknown Soldier and were following behind this one cute deaf couple who were signing the whole way down the street. It brings the biggest smile to my face when I see deaf couples together, especially this particular couple because they must have been in high school. Such triumph and courage.