The team hanging out with us this week is from California State University at Northridge. This is the 2nd year we have hosted this group so it was great to see familiar faces when they arrived and a chance to catch up. Its also been fun to meet the new recruits and see them experience island life for the first time. The team is made up of both deaf and hearing and the great challenge for the week is to see if I can find out who is hearing and who is deaf. None of them talk they always sign. This has been a great challenge for me as it is improving my receptive skills as they "fly" with their signs, and also changing my way of thinking from JSL to ASL. They are not a construction team since they all know the language and most of them are education majors they are spending their week with us working in the school so the teachers have a prep week to get things set up for the semester and so they can attend all the meetings that are needed with out worrying about their classes. What a blessing to have them serve in this way.
This team is also very active not only at CCCD but with the deaf all over the island. I don't know if you can read it but on the back of their shirts it reads SOCIAL JUSTICE NOW! Sunday they traveled to St. Elizabeth to fellowship with the deaf there and on Friday instead of a free day to the beach they chose to go to Kingston to fellowship with the deaf there.
The team hanging out with us this week is from California State University at Northridge. This is the 2nd year we have hosted this group so it was great to see familiar faces when they arrived and a chance to catch up. Its also been fun to meet the new recruits and see them experience island life for the first time. The team is made up of both deaf and hearing and the great challenge for the week is to see if I can find out who is hearing and who is deaf. None of them talk they always sign. This has been a great challenge for me as it is improving my receptive skills as they "fly" with their signs, and also changing my way of thinking from JSL to ASL. They are not a construction team since they all know the language and most of them are education majors they are spending their week with us working in the school so the teachers have a prep week to get things set up for the semester and so they can attend all the meetings that are needed with out worrying about their classes. What a blessing to have them serve in this way.
This team is also very active not only at CCCD but with the deaf all over the island. I don't know if you can read it but on the back of their shirts it reads SOCIAL JUSTICE NOW! Sunday they traveled to St. Elizabeth to fellowship with the deaf there and on Friday instead of a free day to the beach they chose to go to Kingston to fellowship with the deaf there.
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