I have been missing my ASL class for two months because I was busy with my film and I was really happy to finally be back! I’m always looking forward to the hour and a half of silence, where I don’t feel like I have to talk.
It was intimidating to speak with my hands and face again but Sonya was very encouraging and she didn’t let me dwell on the past and on me missing classes. She told me to look forward, forget the two months and look ahead and do my best to catch up. (more…)
Today, it was very difficult to get up. I only had about 4 hours of sleep and it was Sunday and one was supposed to sleep in.
But I had to get up! I’ve been planning this class for three weeks and nothing was going to keep me from it. If I had been in an accident, I would have crawled out of the hospital to attend this class.
See, Voices From Chornobyl had a performance at the Deaf West Theatre on April 26th, the 23rd anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. I was playing Anna again and we met a couple times with actors who were hard of hearing and who were talking in American Sign Language. It was totally inspiring! It, meaning the sign language and they, the actors.
