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I Don’t Have an Accent in ASL

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

american sign language

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 forĀ  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.

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