Aaron has great plans to go off and study in Israel for a semester or a year or however long it takes him to miss my cooking, which might be at least a decade.
He has even contacted a program that he thought looked interesting..
This program is even respectable, no wild eyed cult groupies, no strange leaders who live in compounds with armed guards ad a strange assortment of underage females, no interesting substances being bandied around to help them get in the mood for their religious contemplation.
Some of the faculty even know how to tie a tie.
And, to top it off, Stacie’s son went there, a year ago, and had a wonderful time. And he even came back in one piece and is in a decent college and dating a nice girl, so what could be bad?
Well, Aaron is deaf. Or, if you want to discuss his functionality, he is hard of hearng, and everyone knows that people like that bite And if they haven’t gotten all their shots…..
In other words, there is the possibility that the people who run et program will be scared off by his hearing aids.
So, a few weeks ago, Aaron emailed them at their Jerusalem campus and let them know that he was interested in applying , that he has hearing loss and he asked if they had any experience with deaf or hard of hearing students.
And then he waited for a response, and waited, and waited.
And when the response came, it was from a faculty member who will be visiting the United States. In face he will be in Chicago and thought it would be good to conduct a telephone interview with Aaron, at that time.
My husband thought this was a good sign! I know this because he told me this over lunch.
Except that this telephone interview is being scheduled with a deaf kid whose business cards read: Aaron M-G
Text me, don’t call,
I am deaf!”
And I have a feeling that this is an indication that they do not, in fact, have any previous experience having a deaf or hard of hearing student.
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