Hello everyone, my name is Johnny (I go by JK, but my girlfriend hates it) and I am a fully hearing student from Sacramento, Ca. I am studying to become a register nurse (yes and male nurse) in trauma while earning my ASL Interpreter, yes double major. I am already a volunteer EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) with MRC (Medical Reserve Corps) and with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department (no, I am not a cop). Oh did I forget to include that I work full time, full time student, photographer, and volunteer a lot?
Why do I want to learn ASL you might ask yourself? Well I have two reasons why, the first being that I have been around and exposed to ASL my whole life. While in elementary school, I had a teacher that was deaf (only had her for about 6 months, that’s the life of a military family, always moving) and was able to start picking up a few signs from her. Then when my family moved to Sacramento, my mother worked with the California Department of Rehabilitation, where they had around nine deaf employees in her office. The other reason why I am learning ASL is because it’s one of the prerequisites for college and I have a problem with reading. I have a gift called dyslexia, which makes reading and writing for me very hard. So learning how to read and write in a different language would have killed me since I am lacking in the English grammar (ie: there, their, while to use semicolons, and other charters). Later I will make a different post about my gift and fingerspelling problems (yes I have already searched this forum and the web with zero luck).
Well that’s a quick bio on me, so if you have any questions, just ask. My life is a open book, there are some part that are just boring, I’m just saying.
Why do I want to learn ASL you might ask yourself? Well I have two reasons why, the first being that I have been around and exposed to ASL my whole life. While in elementary school, I had a teacher that was deaf (only had her for about 6 months, that’s the life of a military family, always moving) and was able to start picking up a few signs from her. Then when my family moved to Sacramento, my mother worked with the California Department of Rehabilitation, where they had around nine deaf employees in her office. The other reason why I am learning ASL is because it’s one of the prerequisites for college and I have a problem with reading. I have a gift called dyslexia, which makes reading and writing for me very hard. So learning how to read and write in a different language would have killed me since I am lacking in the English grammar (ie: there, their, while to use semicolons, and other charters). Later I will make a different post about my gift and fingerspelling problems (yes I have already searched this forum and the web with zero luck).
Well that’s a quick bio on me, so if you have any questions, just ask. My life is a open book, there are some part that are just boring, I’m just saying.
