Starting the end of the month.

[sidat202]

I will be in the seattle area until the end of september. If you get up this way before I leave, maybe we can get coffee somewhere. I don't know sign language, but I have a big tablet.

Welcome to the family. Enjoy your travels. Perhaps we will cross paths sometime. I'm in washington state hoping to head south soon. Sid.

<br /><br />Look me up on your way south, I'm in Northern California right now, will be heading north to Seattle eventually, and then south for the winter <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" alt="" align="absMiddle" border="0" />

 

[peacetara]

I will be in the seattle area until the end of september.

<br /><br />Sounds good. Last time I went to Seattle it took me a month from the Bay Area. &nbsp;Chances are I won't get there by the end of September, but who knows, I have motivation this time, my sister lives there and I haven't spent time with her in a long time, and I'd really like to!<br /><br />With Love,<br />Tara

 

[twokniveskatie]

Hey Tara! I am so in love with ASL and hope maybe you would be willing to help me learn more of it? I had been intending to take a class this fall at the community college, but had to pass that up when I drove to Texas.

I have had some experience with ASL over the years, very informal in bits and pieces....teaching a deaf street kid some basic stuff, my brothers girlfriend, stuff like that. My best experience was a class I took at the hospital in basic "medical sign language". It was taught by an instructor from the Scranton School for the Deaf. During a class exercise one day he went around the room asking each student to sign a word he gave them. When he got to me, he said "sign all the words on that poster on the wall". Without thinking, I told him (in sign) "f**k you". He gave me an A+ for the course just on the basis that I had learned to blurt out in sign language! I was so proud of that

So what do you say? Can you recommend what I can do since I missed this class?

 

[fluffabear]

Howdy Tara form WA state! (I am currently in Moses Lake, but am often in Seattle visiting friends).

 

[peacetara]

twokniveskatie: YAY for ASL! <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> There are some great resources online, I just recently found this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/asllessons?feature=watch">youtube channel<br /></a><br />It's totally fabulous.&nbsp; also try out:&nbsp; aslpro.com and lifeprint.com<br /><br />I'm very willing to help you learn more ASL!!!! If you will be at the January RTR, we could do some practicing then!<br /><br />I'm around the northwest thru most of November, so I'll catch some cold weather sadly.&nbsp; Then I'm headed south to try and get warm for the winter <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"><br /><br />@fluffabear thanks! I've been vandwelling for (2) months now? I dunno I lost count already <img src="/images/boards/smilies/tongue.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"><br /><br />With Love,<br />Tara

 

[twokniveskatie]

Thanks sweetie! I will get busy refreshing and expanding my vocab. When we get together you can teach me the fine art of putting those signs into conversations!