Another Busy Week Done!

School has just been non-stop since spring break! It's been crazy!

This past week I had been studying for an expressive test that I took yesterday in ASL Fingerspelling and Numbers - I was nervous because the two weeks before spring break happened, our teacher was out of town in Mexico sooooo in the past four weeks, we've had class once! Not good! After spring break, we had the one class (which had a pop quiz...I did really poorly on that quiz) and then it was this week with the test, so I wasn't sure that I would be prepared for it.....but I got through it and she said I did good, so hopefully it turns out OK! I was really awkward during the test because I sign left-handed and the way she had it set up was really crappy for lefties. I sat at the end of the table, but she had that chair at an angle, so my left side was closer to the table then my right plus she had taped down the test at an angle so every-time I signed to her, my hand was in the way and I couldn't read the paper!! Plus my elbow kept hitting the table...it was just annoying. She told me that I needed to move my arm out farther because I ended up signing really close to my body so I wouldn't be hitting my elbow and so I could read what I was supposed to be signing........ummmm hello! I don't think it effected my grade though so if it's the same for our next test, I'll tell her that I want to stand or something. This coming week will be the receptive test.....hopefully that will go fine as well!

I also had a 3-4 page paper due this week for my Eastern Philosophy class. Mine turned out to be 9 pages that I wrote in under 3 hours, haha. I didn't mean for it to be that long, but the topic I had chosen to write about said to "pick several verses" and I probably over-compensated on the number I did. Oh well. She also handed back the book report papers we turned in last Thursday and I was happy to see she gave me an A! Finally! We have a test in EP next Thursday as well, so my week is going to be another crazy one.....plus I have a test in my on-line class too....joy!!

Monday in my ASL Linguistics class we were given our results of the test we took the week before break - we only have expressive tests in Linguistics and this time we video-taped it so our teacher could grade them over break. We then set-up individual meetings with him so find out what we got and go over what we did wrong. Half of the class had meetings before the other half and they were freaking us out because they kept saying that they did bad and he's a really harsh grader, ext, so the rest of us who were having meetings with him Monday before class were super nervous to meet with him! One of the ladies in our class is a CODA (child(ren) of Deaf Adults) and she received a B so everyone was expecting to do worse than her. Keep in mind that for Linguistics and Fingerspelling and Numbers, grading is different and much harder. To receive an A, the percentage is 94% and up instead of 90% and up. So getting a C or even a D might not be that bad because it would have been a B or C. Haha, that's what everyone is keeping in mind to stay positive! Anyways, I had my meeting, he showed me my grade and I almost started crying because I got a really high B. The look on my face must have been crazy because my teacher started laughing at my expression. It's just a relief to have a good grade and be doing good in that class!

Now I just have to finish my on-line homework and turn it in and I'll be done with this week's craziness. Next week will be the three tests and the week after that will be a Linguistics test. Then we start preparing for the end of the semester.....crazy! But I'm ready to be done!

I've been thinking about taking ASL 5 during summer term, but we'll see. I need to decide soon!