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In the district where I teach the interpreters are school employees, but if we have several out sick we hire outside, freelance people. The interpreter who is in my room during one period used to work in an elementary school, and I get the impression she did more than just convey language. She...

Joelene, I get that you want to find two people to answer the questions so you have a complete profile of two people, rather than a mash-up of several people, but you would not believe how many posts just like yours are on here. Every teacher has a slightly different assignment so it seems like...

I wouldn't hesitate. I'm hearing, so I might feel a little outnumbered in my house if everyone was deaf but me, but if we wanted kids, that wouldn't cause me to pause. I have a friend with PKU, a metabolic disorder where you cannot process protein so she can't eat any foods with protein. No...

Hey, step aside, VacationGuy, I'm trying to flirt with dakewldude! Trust me, I would LOVE to be approached by guys. Maybe I'm just hideous, or have some sort of pheremone disorder, because I have never been approached in a bar by any guy. I realize women cannot and should not go out with...

Let them know your learning/practice goals, and tell them that it's okay if they don't know everything if they're basically good, but that they should let you know if they don't actually know. (It took me a long time to get comfortable telling my students I just don't know the Spanish word...

:wave: :giggle: Absolutely. So, you from around here? :naughty:

I often go a little less than 20% if service was good, a little more if it was great. 15% if it was passable. Less than 15% seems a bit cheap, so unless the waiter/waitress did a really bad job, then I go about 15%. Here in WI our state tax is 5% (individual counties and cities have their own...

Okay, that post isn't showing up quite right for me. If it doesn't work for you, go to Youtube and look for Dove evolution.

Even the pretty people aren't so pretty all the time. Cindy Crawford once said, "Even I don't look like Cindy Crawford when I get up in the morning." Check out this video, made by Dove & this model. (The video has music & background noise, but is all visual.) Hopefully my embedding...

Tattoos depend on the guy. I am not really attracted to guys with full sleeves, but there have been a few guys I would not have let that stop me! A bit of ink here or there is fine. What I would NOT like are face/neck/hand tattoos. Not only because they can't be covered, but they are...

:lol:Isn't that the #1 deaf culture introduction question? I thought my first ASL teacher was exaggerating when he described the "interrogation" (:lol:) new people get from deafies they meet. But it's true. Who are you? Deaf or hearing? (OMG, I love it when people ask if I'm deaf...like...

How do you get to 30 and never been intimate? Well, you are shy in high school, work a lot through college to earn tuition money and studying for my classes. When you graduate you move to a town that has, literally, 4 single men, none of whom interest you. Then you move again, and don't...

Wow. I did not realize I was supposed to be desperate. I'm 37, single, and really pretty happy. Sure, I'd like to date, but I'd rather be alone than in a bad relationship. I never tried POF before...sounds like I shouldn't. Trust me, I'm hearing and have had bad first dates with hearing...

Thanks, mrk...I kind of deep down figured it was a "he's just not that into you" sort of situation. But we're good friends and that is fine.

Around here (language weirdness center of the ASL universe, Wisconsin) most of the time this is how I see the sign "perfect"...with an F handshape. As for fluent, it depends on what you mean. Are you talking about the rate/pace/smoothness of the language? Or do you mean the overall ability...

I think you handled it great. Be aware that anyone could be the bad element, but odds are these are just normal decent people. MOST people will act decently if you treat them decently. Most creepy people look for easy victims (think lion separating the limping antelope from the herd), so if...

Well, if you don't actually TALK to the guy, the only way he would possibly interested you is by pure physical attraction. He won't know your great personality. So if you're super gorgeous, then that is fine. That could be enough to motivate him to come over and start the conversation. But...

Contact your state (or nearest big city)'s Association of the Deaf and they may know who you can be in contact with or how to announce something and get the right people there. I know a group of interpreters/Deaf people/ASL students used to do semi-regular "sign & dine" events around here...

I have a seldom used blog at blogspot.com (run by Google)...only problem is for some reason Google thinks I want the page in Spanish, which I speak but it still drives me nuts I can't change it to English. I think that's my own special problem though.

My students ask me why Spanish grammar is different than English. Actually, they say "backwards", because in their eyes, Spanish is wrong and English is right. Anyhow, I simply say that they are two totally different languages. If they lined up exactly, they would be the same language. For...