Level Three BSL Cancelled
Unfortunately it looks as though my Level Three BSL qualification is going to have to wait, as it seems there wasn’t enough uptake on the course I was enrolled in. I’m not too down about it, but I am going to try and get to more BSL events and keep up my practice until another [...]
V. Fresh, 201 results & Deaf Volunteers in Blackpool.
Just a quick update on my previous blog, to say that I passed 201 with 12/12! I’m really proud of myself for doing so well, and want to congratulate my other class mates who passed with me. Now to prepare for 202 and 203! On a separate note, I went to Blackburn on Friday afternoon, navigated their [...]
Deaf Club & Teaching Foundation
So I went along on Friday night to the Devonshire Arms in Bispham for the last Deaf Club of 2009. I wasn’t very active on the night and spent most of my time watching rather than engaging in conversations, as I felt a little bit rusty, but did manage to follow most of the conversations [...]
Level Two Postponed
Found out yesterday that my level two BSL classes will be postponed until the new year ~14th Jan so people can get Christmas out of the way before we start. It’s actually worked out pretty well for me, even though I miss my classes and the time to practice, it gives me the chance to [...]
deaf vs. Deaf – “The big D”
In my previous post I mentioned using capitalisation for the word deaf in certain circumstances. For those of you who are new to the deaf community, here is a brief explanation for you to get a better understand of the difference between deaf and Deaf. Taken from http://insidedeafculture.com/definitions.html (EpiGenesis, 2007) “deaf: The use of the [...]