Happy Holidays

The semester is almost over! Next week we have a little break for Thanksgiving and I cannot wait because I love the holiday season. I love spending time with my family and stuffing my face full of food. When we come back from that little break we will have a couple weeks left before the first semester is over. In the last couple of weeks I will have a final essay due for my English class, a final test in my statistics class, and I will have a written test and a presentation for my sign language class. I feel pretty confident so I do not believe I will need to study and cram super hard for these tests. I do believe I will need to practice for my presentation in sign language though. I have to stand in front of the whole class and sign a childhood story and I do not know which one to tell. I want it to be a funny story but I do not want it to be one where I got hurt or get embarrassed. I have a lot of those stores. I think I am going to talk about a time my sister and I were walking our dogs in the snow and kept falling over and over again. Speaking of snow, I cannot wait until we have our Christmas break because again I love the holiday season. I can see my dogs, spend time with my family, and most importantly have a gift exchanged of the weirdest gifts with my family because that is just who we are.

Thanks for reading my blog! I hope everyone has an amazing holiday season and that you do not stress out to much for your finals.

Jenah

Going To CSD

On Friday I went to the California School for the Deaf. I went to the school for their open house to get extra credit for my sign language class. I took my sister and mother with me, so they could see what I had been learning in class. When we first got to the school and walked in we saw people signing to each other and I started to get nervous because I was still learning the language. We went into the book fair and looked at all of the books. As we were about to leave a woman came up to us and asked while signing if 'we were students'. I told her 'I was a student' as I signed back. We both talked and signed because we were both learning. She asked, 'if my mother and sister were my friends'. I told her 'she is my sister and she is my mother'. She asked if 'I went to CSD or Ohlone'. I told her 'no I go to CSUS'. She said, 'wow that's far'. I agreed with her and then we all walked away. After we left my sister and mom said, "wow that so cool". We then looked around the school and found the gym where they had a whole bunch of booths set up. We looked around at the booths and then went back outside. After we went outside and bought a cookie from their bake sale. We saw that there was a scavenger hunt, so we decide it would be fun to look around for the things on the list and explore the school. As we were looking around for the things on the list a man walked up to my sister and mother and signed 'if they needed help' ad they were both really confused but they said no ad my sister did the sign for 'no'. The man then signed faster to them and they were both looking at each other and then pointed at me. Another man came up to the first man and asked for help and my sister and mother came up to me telling me what had just happened. We all laughed and went to look for more things. As we went to take a picture of their mascot we heard a loud drum going off and people walked and pointing to the amphitheater. We went over to the amphitheater and sat down, and a woman was explaining what was happening as I had to try to translate what she was saying. She was signing that some students would be preforming a dance for everyone. We watched the dance and then when it was over my sister wanted to buy something for one of the booths. She bought two little hearts with the sign for 'I love you' on it. After we were done with that we left but it was still a lot of fun looking at the campus and seeing everyone signing to each other.

Halloween Gala

On Halloween last week, all the people who work with housing put on a Halloween Gala. They opened the gates and a whole bunch of families and other kids came to Trick or Treat at the dorms. The families could also do a whole bunch of activities such as: getting their face painted, making sugar skulls, and going through the haunted hallway. The haunted hallway was in front of my dorm this year, so I had to decide if I wanted to stay in while the event was going on or if I wanted to stay out the whole time. I decided to stay out the whole time, so I could see all of the cute little kids dressed in their costumes. I was dressed up in an octopus onesie and was helping pass out maps to all of the families. As one family walked in one of the children looked at me and said, "Oh my gosh it's an octopus!" and it honestly made my day. After that I stood with my RA at the end of the haunted hallway to make sure no one entered through the exit. It was a lot of fun to see everyone's reactions after they got out. It was funny to see some of the scared adults, but it was heartbreaking seeing some of the little kids cry as they got out of the hallway. As I was standing at the end of the hallway the same little boy who was excited to see me as an octopus came out of the elevator right behind me. As the family was walking away to leave the little boy walked past me and tried to touch my tentacles and the mother told him not to and as he was walking away he looked back at me and waved saying "It's an octopus!" again and my heart melted. After the Gala was over I helped clean up the haunted hallway and it was so clean it was like it was never even there in the first place.

Thanks for reading my blog! If you have any stories including cute little kids I would love to hear it.

Jenah