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During the week I got to work on a lot of coloring, cutting, and pasting. I created examples for kids to reference when creating their work project. The projects included a reading book that needed to be colored, arts and crafts, and helping the kids out with their work. I see that the people I work with are determined to get what they have to get done for the day. One person I see really get on the kids is Aj. Aj is the one who tried to get the kids calm when the throw fits and succeeded at them. I honestly don't know how he does it, but I admire his ability to be good with kids. I am the opposite with kids, I just don't know how to calm them down. They work so hard to help the kids to make sure they're learning. Even when the kids are giving the teacher and helpers a hard time, they will not give up until the kids are calm and working. For me I only experienced one kid who needed help with math and it was difficult to make sure he understood what he was doing. Eventually he did understand what he was doing, but when it came to the next task it was harder to get him to work on it. I did tell him he needed all of the birds to be cut out, but he wanted to throw them away. We were so close to being done, but the time came to clean up. I want to develop more patient with the kids like the teacher and the helpers have for them, otherwise I feel like giving up easily. I learned that I can get the kids to learn if I don't give up easily. I did help a kid get through his math paper by not easily giving up on him, I stuck through with it. I could also develop on how to approach a kid to be calm and continue working than signing ‘attention’ and work’, which would only make them want to play with each other than motivating them to work. All I’m saying is I would need more experience to help the kids’ needs than to repeat myself all the time.
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Starting late with only two days of work was not ideal for me because I had to wait on important papers in order to start. I was stressed on how I was going to make up my hours. I was nervous to meeting the staff and kids. When I walked into Davila Day School it was a welcoming place. Staff really wanted to sure that I had a nice welcome by reassuring me I’d be fine and if I needed any help just ask. When I entered the classroom with Mrs.McClellan who is the teacher, showed me where to place my backpack and lunch, and I got started right away. Mrs. McClellan gives me task to complete while she repeats herself just in case I missed something along with showing me the signs. I got to help staple papers, hole punch papers, and clean. I did get to know the kids names and they did sign to me, which was hard to understand so I used signs like again and slow, to understand them. I realized it's okay to not understand the kids and teacher completely because that’s what I'm there for and the helpers were there to also assist me for help. The next day I had no idea there was a minimum day so that was exciting, but my hours could also be affected by this. When I found this out I wasted no time asking what I have to do for the day, so I could get between most things or everything done. I started off by making copies with the help of one of the aids Aj. Aj helped showed me how to make copies a certain way, but when it came out wrong I was in panic. I got help and Aj came in so we both struggled figuring out why the print was messing up. I did feel bad for wasting paper on terrible prints, but the aids were encouraging me to keep on trying even if I keep messing up. Eventually I got the prints rights, so I became very excited and happy. I finally got the prints right. From there I had some fun because I made examples for the kids by coloring the page and putting the words in the correct place. Once I was done with that I got to glue butterflies on sticks so the kids can put it with their flower pot for Mother's Day. Before I knew it the day was up and time for me to go home. My first day on the job after being two days late for medical reasons. Late that week my mentor wanted to take a picture with me!
I make a meaningful impact in the classroom by helping the kids out with their work. I help out by cleaning the tables, making examples for the kids to view, and being able to have people remember me. There is one kid in particular who loves to have me around. Every morning she gets my attention just to sing good morning and/or hi. I like seeing her everyday, and I always look forward to helping her when I get a chance. Every time she’s working, I sign ,“How do you sign (image on paper),?”. She does show me the signs, and if I’m wrong she’ll correct me. For for example today May, 31 2018, I helped her with her work, because she need some help on math. When it comes to helping the other kids they are a little bit harder to work because I have to use signs like,”Attention/focus, look, I’m helping you okay?”.This is not easy being the helper and Mrs.McClellan makes it look easy. Sometimes the kids won’t do their work and become easily distracted, so then we find other ways to get the kids to work When I do get the kids to work it’s such a proud moment for me, because I actually got them to do their work while helping them along the way. I feel like I’m contributing to them in a way that reinforces them to work in order to get their five minutes of playtime, which is their favorite thing to do. I was able to play with some of the kids during their five minutes of playtime, which was sun. I got to toss a ball, build legos, play jenga, and play connect four. I don’t know for sure if I am making a positive and meaningful impact on the kids or not. One could only imagine this in their heads and get to let it get to them, but I really hope this isn’t the case for me. I really hope the kids will remember me and that I was someone who really tried my best to help them. Here is me playing Jenga with one of the students for five minutes.
For my conversations this week it was just random and was a way for me to get my thoughts out of my system. My conversations mostly consisted with Aj, who is one of the helpers of the class. We gotten to know each other during our breaks and lunch. We had conversations about movies, superheros, and music. During our lunch break Aj had asked me if I’ve seen Deadpool 2 yet and I signed, “No”. He told me it was really funny and asked if I’d seen the first movie, which I responded using my sign language, “It was dumb”. From there we were just going over how ‘Avengers Infinity War’ gave everyone the feels, especially because they killed off Loki, who was one of the best villans of all time. From there we were asking each other which superheros we like the most from DC and/or Marvel. I excitedly wrote down that I love Captain America, and how he is the best Marvel superhero of all time, while he mentions he’s always like Superman from DC, and how he always liked him. Our other conversation about music was how he plays drums, which has been seven years. I got to mention that I played guitar for a little bit then stopped, and now I’m still thinking if I should go back to it or not. Then I was explaining that I went to the Summer Kick Off Concert and I only went for two reasons, Meghan Trainor and Chainsmokers until I heard Lauv was going to be there. Then Aj told me, “Once you found out he was gonna be there, you’re in love with him now”. I had to write down, “I’m in love with Charlie Puth”. Aj was like, “Nice! He makes good music. What’s your favorite song by him?”. I quickly wrote down, “Marvin Gaye”. He replied, “Why? Because it has Meghan Trainor”. My response was, “Yes”i n sign language. Aj is actually a cool guy to have fun conversations with, whether we have the same taste in movies, superhero, or music it was surprisingly fun to get that out of my system. I usually give my thoughts in my friend group at lunch, but since we're not at school this gives me company for my days at my internship site. Here is a picture of Aj. Aj is pretty chill and was most helpful when I needed something.
The skills that I’ve developed over my junior year is being able to sign faster. When I first started at I was a slow starter, which was hard at first, but it gets easier. I developed my skills to communicate other than writing. People always ask me if I ever get tired of writing to people, but I don’t, it’s just apart of my life. This social skill can help me a lot in my daily life because I do rely on my family when were out. I can improve on going up to people and ask for what I need, and get actual help. I’m so pumped up to learn more sign language because it calms me, even when I learn a song and mess up. I found a way to relieve stress in a way I could never do before. The only thing I would want to do now is have fun with it and post me singing songs onto YouTube. If I did do this, then I could go step by step on how interpret the song. Learning to break down a song and translating it into ASL is very cali9ming, and frustrating at the same time. I get mad at myself when I don’t get a sign right, or that I’m not fast enough so I keep working at it, even Fridays and Saturday night. If I’m dedicated on learning a song I listen to it, look up the words, break it down, and apply my interpretation. When it comes to the real world that’s different, people expect people to talk unless the know sign language. This will always not be the case, so I fear like people won’t be able to understand me, so that holds me back from becoming independent. For this skill I can get practice on becoming fluent by reading what other people sign. The only time I get do see what people are saying is at school with Drea, and watch people sign to songs on YouTube. For a future career I could see myself being an interpreter in helping people with translations. My ideal project with sign language would be to literally sign all day. I could seriously just take the time and enjoying signing for whatever future project, job, or intern I get. The first image is me at the beginning of the year signing, "Grow" when I practiced some some vocabulary words. The second photo was at my internship site at Davila Day School and I had to put grass for the the kids' project. I am using the sign for grass. The last picture is me signing,"Thank you' here to someone at school.
Who am I now, you might ask? If I were you I would ask myself the same question too.I just turned 17 and figuring life out. I don’t know what I’ll do in the future, but I hope it has to do with American Sign Language. By the time you read this who knows how old I’ll be. I’m a teenager who goes to school, and doesn’t have a job yet. One who still doesn’t talk, but I’m somehow still make it through life and school without speaking despite of soon being a senior in high school. Right now people might view me as differently because I am mute, it’s like people can underestimate me and my abilities. Right now, I don’t know what I’m doing. My life right now is full of stress, but this is what I expected coming into the eleventh grade. I expected this because all juniors go through internship. This gave me a heads up and really think about what I can do for intern. People always tell me I need to talk when I get an intern, or a real world job. I just don’t see it that way. It’s like people are trying to change me, and I don’t like that. If you had asked me what I wanted to do for internship when I first walked into High Tech High as a freshman, I would be completely lost as to where I wanted to intern at. I wasn’t really into anything, except thinking of going back to guitar. As I progressed through High Tech, I was worried I wasn’t going to find my interest in time for internship. That is, until we had to do a growth mindset project for math in the beginning of the year. This project for math was teaching us if we put our minds to something we want to do, we can achieve great things. I was slow to being with, but that was okay. As long as I was dedicated, and willing to I’d be fine Ever since then, I haven’t slowed down. I love sign language so much that I could spend a whole day learning, and sign songs. At this time I know three songs, and improving, as I get faster in signing. I thought it was amazing how fast you have to be and make it look so effortlessly. I know for sure this is what I want to do in life, to become an ASL interpreter. Once, I master ASL then I can move forward from learning any sign language I want such as Black American Sign Language and British Sign Language. This could not only give me a career opportunity to sign at events in ASL, but other sign languages as well. When I found out who Amber Galloway Gallego was, she signs at concerts I aspire to pursue that goal. If I ever get a chance to do that I would be freaking out with excitement. She is so famous at American Sign Language, she attends concerts for the deaf world to hear. If learning more than one language really does get you extra money then I could do travel more, living life to the fullest. I would have to work hard at learning to sign, while conveying emotions. Right now I have mixed feelings about going into junior internships. I got an offer at Davila Day School, which is a deaf and hard-of-hearing school. I will be helping a teacher with the kids. When I heard the new I could not believe it. It was surreal I thought it was almost like a dream come true! I was finally getting an intern with something I love! Here I am right now. It is not easy finding an internship and waiting on results if you got accepted or not.
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