So far, everything seems to be going pretty smoothly. It's been a slow week, but I've slowly been starting to learn a lot. Something similar I find being on this internship and being at school is that both are very easy if you have great communication skills. I wouldn't say my communication skills are stellar, but they are above average in a professional setting.
In all, it's really just about helping out those in the Deaf community. Interpreting, especially with long-time clients, establishes a connection with the interpreter and deaf client in a way that makes both feel at ease on the job. I think that it's a really cool thing how various organizations like Deaf Community Services or Clip Interpreting sets up these kind of jobs for people who need an interpreter. As for my skills, ASL has been pretty rough on me these past couple of days. Yes it's easy when I'm talking with a friend at school or watching a video where I can go back to what they were saying, but signing with people who really fluent in ASL really takes me back a bit. I understand that I know I won't know a lot considering I only really started learning last year, but it does surprise me how little I know sometimes. Lastly, I'm excited to start on a little experiment I wanted to do for this internship. I planned that at the beginning of this internship I would record myself interpreting a video , and then interpret it again at the end of this internship to see how far I have progressed. That little experiment starts tomorrow. I will be visiting the Clip Interpreting office tomorrow and using one of their recording rooms to start my interpreting session and having that video to study and analyze. I'm really excited to do that. (I commented on Carly's and Tica's)
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Cecilia Gonzalez
5/14/2015 04:03:29 pm
I'm glad you found an internship in ASL, I know how much you love it and I hope this opportunity leaves you with even more knowledge. Good luck and have fun.
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5/15/2015 03:10:18 am
It sounds like you are really enjoying yourself on your externship so far. It also sounds like this experience is a lot different than your other ASL internship, so its great you are able to see different perspectives of the field. I hope you have a great time and I love the idea of filming a video of you signing right now and then compare it to another video of you at the end of the three weeks to see how much you have improved!
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Raquel
5/18/2015 02:29:55 pm
I cant wait to see the videos you have talked about. They sound really cool.
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