Story of the Day 5/ 7/ 2010

The morning went well.
That explains everything. It must have been tempting fate to think it was going to be a smooth countdown to the weekend.
This morning, Sarah arrived at high school and had a good interpreter. Heather. Heather who can both sign ASL and can understand Sarah when Sarah signs ASL.
But Heather could only work half a day, so after lunch, a new interpreter came and introduced herself.
“My name is R-U-….” And she looked uncertain.
“R-U- “ she looked at her hand and tentatively continued “T- H” *

When Sarah came home, she told me the interpreter couldn’t’ spell her name. I though Sarah meant “her” name- Sarah’s. I mean, “Margolis- Greenbaum “can give a good finger speller a bit of a shock. But I never imagined this. And it was only 4 letters.
At the end of the school day, Ruth asked Sarah to sign a paper- something verifying that Ruth had been there. It may have been a standard thing from her agency, but Sarah told me she is suspicious that Ruth is on probation and it was a community service paper.
After her experiences at this high school, that is a reasonable assumption.

• The interpreter’s name has been changed. It was also a 4 letter name with the third letter being an R, so you are still getting an accurate representation of what happened.