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12-16-2005, 05:19 AM
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Another newbie :)
G'day y'all.
I'm a hearing guy, living in Canberra, Australia. Used to go out (um, go with, date, whatever the expression is) a Deaf girl. Unfortunately, that finished (right person, wrong time. Life sucks majorly, sometimes). So this is my only real connection to d/Deafness. Anyway, she taught me some Auslan (Australian Sign Language), and when I found out that there were classes at a local college, I enrolled. Two years later, I've finished the 4th certificate, and was looking forward to a more advanced course next year but there aren't enough people enrolled for the college to run it. Major let down. Quite recently I found out that my mother's father (now unfortunately deceased) had a deaf friend when he and my grandmother lived in a small country town, and he learn to sign quite fluently. It would be so wonderful if he was still alive...the stories he could tell... Along the way I've become quite interested in literacy and education. Maybe one day a career change will happen and I'll end up teaching literacy... who knows? Right now I work for a research organisation in a technical training area. For the last three years, I've fought pitched battles against Microsoft Word, and won all except two - we have a lot of international researchers who visit us (www.clw.csiro.au) and one Chinese guy has a mixture of Chinese and English software on his computer, which seems to wreak havoc with Word. Anyway, I finally joined AD because I wanted to comment on the "cleaning bathrooms thread". I share a house with a woman, and do a lot of the cleaning....but I'll leave that story for later  |
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12-16-2005, 06:59 PM
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Jersey Girl
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New Jersey...anyone else from NJ?
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nice to meet u..im a newbie2,....and I am hearing, studying deaf education and would love to make some friends here...especially those who use sign..my hh friends don't so i don't have a chance to sign w them...Trust God..you'll find ur true love.....
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12-17-2005, 07:37 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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thanks for all your greets
 AD seems to be a good place to be.@flyfishfemme: I asked my grandmother if my grandfather's friend was still alive, but he died in the early 1980s. But I might see if any of his family are still around....hmmm....good idea. I was at a conference this week, and a girl there suggested that I interview my grandmother and record her life story...maybe if this other guy's family were still around I could do the same. For Australia's bicentenary, in 1988, a group of older Deaf Australians were interviewed and videoed. Each video has each person talking about their lives, based around a particular theme, such as early childhood, family, work, school and so on. Really interesting stuff, though much of it is signed way too fast for me to comprehend! |
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12-19-2005, 02:52 PM
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Welcome to AD, mate! I used to live in Melbourne, Victoria for 6.5 years -- I've been back in the States since December 2004 (exactly a year since I left Australia)
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12-19-2005, 05:49 PM
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12-29-2005, 01:44 PM
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Location: Cranston, Rhode Island
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 Flutable to Alldeaf. It's nice to hear that you are making new friends, and having fun posting at the same time. Welcome aboard and enjoy!!! Happy New Year!! 
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05-07-2008, 06:35 PM
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Oh why didn't I see this thread?
 G'day mate, I know you in the same area - I am from Canberra, Australia too
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