Week 11!!!!!!!!!!!

     Wow! I can not believe that we have been working on this project for eleven weeks now! I am so impressed with the progress I have made! I am also very proud of my group because we have worked together to try and accomplish a goal that seems impossible. None of us have mastered sign language yet , but we still have time left so we hope to accomplish our goal. I am flabbergasted that a whole eleven weeks has passed by and i did not even realize it. For our 20 time this week, we did not very much at all. We hope next week will be more productive and we will accomplish more. We have some big plans coming up and we can not wait to attempt them!

Week 10!!!!!!!!!!

   I am very proud of myself and Maggie! We were able to sign an entire conversation. The conversation was very simple, but it was still something to be proud of. Angelle said her progress was okay with the sign language. Maggie is probably the most progressed and she is helping me out. We haven't made very much progress this week because we have been working on our essays for another class. There is about to be a three day weekend and I hope to make some real progress. I am very sad that there is only eight weeks for me to master the language of sign. I am not sure that I will have the ability to learn it all. I will not give up and I will continue to work at my goal. 

Week 9!!!!!!!!

     This week has been so exciting and I could not wait to write about it. We have finally come up with our name signs!! Maggie's sign is based off of her hair. While Angelle and I have our names based off of our spirit animal. I had such a blast making the names and everyone had a good time. My spirit animal was a koala so we found the sign for a koala. After we found the sign for a koala we made it our own. We changed the K to an M so my name sign in M bear. Angelle's spirit animal was a black bear so we used the bear sign in her name too. Her name is A bear. Maggie's hair is blonde and very curly and her name starts with an M. So we made her sign by waving three times sideways. https://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/KOALA%20BEAR/5302/1

Week 8!!!!!!!!

     This week has been very busy, so not much has happened with my 20 time project. I have not made very much progress over the week. I checked you with my group and they have progressed a lot, just like me. Maggie has been working diligently to learn new words and she is very good at signing. Angelle is also working very hard and she has mastered the same amount of words as me. Tomorrow we are going to work very hard to make sign for our names. We are a little behind on that task, but we can hopefully complete it soon. 

Week 7!!!!!!!

     This week was so good! We have had one snow day so far so I have had extra time to master signing. We also had a a one week break before this week and that gave me a lot of time to practice signing. I am very proud of the progress I have made over the past week. I am very excited to continue working because I am so close to signing fluently. The only reason I find signing challenging is because I am learning another language. I wish I would have chosen  to master one language at a time because learning a new language is very difficult, but learning two new languages at the same time is even more challenging. By next week I hope to make more progress and check in with my group to see how much they have improved.

Week 6!!!!!!

     This week has been very helpful and I have learned how to be polite in sign language. One thing that I am very proud is that when people ask me how to sign something I can usually answer them. I can not come up with the answer every single time, but most of the time I can help people with what they need to sign. My group and I have been working on a sign for our names. We are not supposed to give ourselves name, so we are working on finding someone who can give us our name signs. By next week, we plan on having signs for our names. Another thing we are doing next week is talking to our mentor, because we want to make sure we are on track and learning the language at a reasonable pace.

Week 5!!!!!

     We had another great week this week. I am very proud of how far we have come since the first week. I am impressed by how many words I can sign. I have accomplished our four week goal of signing three to four sentences. After we all finish our blogs for this week we plan to learn some not so basic words. For example, we plan to learn most of the basic pronouns like I, me, he she, etc. Next week we plan to learn at least fifteen new words. So far we have learned a total of 47 words and the alphabet. We have not talked talked to our mentor yet because we have not ran into any problems  that required us to contact her.