Wondering whether the frustration in ASL class last Wednesday night (the teacher went completely "off the rails" as to sticking to our current text chapter and working with the vocabulary in the next chapter and with what we have been learning and practicing). Instead she did something completely off the wall that a lot of us did not understand at all. And she decided to refuse to write instructions on the board and just signed it with signs WE DID NOT KNOW. It was some kind of game and we were divided into teams. The more experienced signers (they always show up even if it's supposed to be a
*beginner's* class) had a lovely time. The rest of us sat there like lumps, getting really frustrated. I was in tears when I left at the end of class. The teacher kept apologizing to us. She knew she'd really screwed it up. Made me consider not returning to class on Monday... :-o
So... the next day after that debacle, my husband & I went in to see my audiologist, who has been waiting for a new model hearing aid that is half the cost of the full feature digitals. (We have a thread about the cost of hearing aids & why spend the money, and I will post more specifics there). So we talked and discussed and ended up getting a no interest 1 year loan for the new aids. I just am not ready to give up on technology to keep me chugging along in the hearing world...especially after confronted at just how ignorant I am in ASL... :|
But I wonder if my feeling so out of it in ASL class, so isolated because of what the teacher did, like I had been beamed into a foreign country and had no clue of language to communicate, drove me to override my initial mindset to just keep the old aids and just let go of new technology. And indebted us for year just out of reaction.