I live in Trinidad. I'll write a lot about it over the next two years, but in short, Trinidad is an area of Northeast DC that's been in the news frequently over the past year for high rates of crime and homicide. I thought long and hard about moving to Trinidad before we signed the lease on our cutie cute rowhouse on our quiet, tree-lined street. When it came down to it, I ultimately felt like the house was in an area where I could feel safe, and would be welcomed by the community.
Just north of our neighborhood is Galludet University, the nation's leading school for the deaf. On weekends, I spend a lot of quality time in our local coffee shop, Sova Espresso, working on lesson plans and the like. Today, it made me happy to stand in line to get my tea and biscotti with a group of people that was not only ethnically diverse, but diverse in other ways. Many of the people in line were signing to the person beside them, or writing down their order for the cashier.
If I learned a bit of Swahili to help me when I was in Kenya, and I learned a bit of Kinyarwanda to help me in Rwanda, shouldn't I learn a bit of sign language to help me out here?
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Learn ASL! It was my foreign language in college and I had so much fun with it. What a great experience!
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