Sarah had C, again, today,
Sarah is Deaf. In case you had forgotten. Deaf as in Deaf not dumb.
Sarah has told me quite a bit about C.
C is lazy.
Sarah knows this because she knows that C, has ASL skills.
She doesn’t’ know this from C’s signing. C, is absolutely terrible. Sarah can’t understand anything she is signing because she signs it word-word-word, in English word order, and without using any grammar.
So how does Sarah know that C, is lazy? Because C, unlike many of the interpreters, can understand Sarah’s signing-, which means that’s he knows ASL. She is just too lazy to bother wasting her energy to interpret anything. She will sit there and get paid for sitting there, but G-d forbid she should actually expend any effort.
Today, C, came into the first class carrying a large cup of coffee from Einstein’s bagels.
Sarah used her detective skills and quickly realized that the coffee was the extra large size and the extra caffeinated variety, as well.
She figured this out because C, was having a hard time keeping her eyes open.
C, drank the large cup of coffee and then sat there as the caffeine seeped into her bloodstream and as her bladder filled.
And she nodded off, Her eyes closed and her head went off to one side, and she sat that way, motionless, as class went on.
Of course, it didn’t’ really make any difference to Sarah, since C, refuses to sign intelligibly.
In fact, it was an improvement, because instead of watching gibberish, Sarah got top watch C, slip a little further to the side with each passing minute.
Sarah was intrigued, she was wondering if there would come a moment when C, would just fall over and go splat on the floor.
Sarah was thinking that the other students might find I amusing, if it did.
But, just then, the end of class bell rang, and C jerked awake, almost falling over in the other direction. A shame that class was 17 minutes shorter than usual today, because of homeroom.
Maybe, tomorrow.
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2 comments:
OMG! She should have VIDEOD that if she has a cell phone! It would be a perfect case why there should be professional and adequate interpreters!!!!!
Janel K.
they don't let them use cell phones in class. personally, it wd have been fun if she cd have videotaped some of the "measure the surface area of a vagina" stuff.
sadly, this terp has asl skills- she is just lazy and doesnt' use them- signs word word word sans grammar- and usually only bothers to use one hand. Sarah is fairly sure she actually has good skills because she can understand sarah......
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