What signs have you learned today?

Hello!!! I am loving Washington, DC and Gallaudet University. This is a totally new experience that I'm not sure is easy to comprehend unless you are here living it. This week has been Graduate School Orientation (GSO) all day from Monday-Friday. We have had lots of lectures, speakers and gatherings to get to know the campus, school politics, and each other! We have mainly met in the large group of First-Year Graduate Students with one day devoted to Departmental orientation.
This picture on the on top is of a few girls in my program (Speech-language Pathology) and one girl from Audiology. This is on the pond that is outside our dorm (Carlin Hall). There are ducks that live in this pond! The picture on underneath is my dorm!

I did not take pictures of us sitting in lectures (mainly because those wouldn't be informative to you nor exciting) but I tried to take photos of more fun activities this week. Just as a note, some of these photos have been taken from friends here!
We decided to break out my Nintendo Wii and celebrate on-campus living by playing Wii Sports together on Tuesday night. We had a lot of fun!!! It was a nice ice-breaker to get to know one another!
We have also had most of our meals together (mostly in American Sign Language...very little spoken English ever on campus!) I have learned an incredible amount of American Sign Language (ASL) in the last week and feel MUCH more comfortable on campus and meeting people. I have made many friends (hearing, deaf, and hard of hearing).




I'm not sure that I've told many people, but my program (and many other programs) are moving to a new building this week!! We are VERY excited to have such nice accommodations! It is called the James Lee Sorenson Language and Communication Center.


A few of us have been out around in Washington, DC! We visited the National Mall, National Archives Museum, and just walked around town! We have had a lot of fun. I'm not sure that I need to describe what is happening in all the photos or who everyone is, but here is a collage of my fun activities this week and weekend!


Classes begin Monday. I have an 8am class every weekday this semester which will be quite an adjustment. Hopefully I can figure out how to wake up my brain so early in the morning.

I truly love being here so far. What a crazy experience!! I will try to update ya'll as much as possible. I hope to take more photos (and have more fun) while also getting a great education!






I miss everyone a lot!