Into my 3rd week of school already. That makes 3 lessons of BSL (British Sign Language). The 1st lesson was pretty easy so I got cocky and thought I would not need to practise. Ha.. but good things (like feeling clever) never last. The 2nd lesson was harder but could still get through without practising and for the 3rd lesson I had forgotten half the things by the next morning.. Oh dear.
Anyway BSL lessons here are really cool. Even though the people I know are all in the other class and so I have more or less no friends in my class the lessons turned out surprisingly entertaining so far. Our teacher is a deaf person so he teaches us by signing. Which I thought would make things really really slow but surprisingly it does not. It is actually amazing how he hardly writes anything on the board and yet manages to communicate with us, teach us and on top of that, still manage to be funny and jovial. Heee and he is fat and chubby like the faceless person in the drawing (on top) which makes him all the more jolly and likeable.. Sad thing tho, I find it hard to interpret additional things that he teaches coz I do not understand the sounds and signs that he makes. The ang mohs are really perceptive tho. They always manage to understand what he is trying to say. Last lesson I thought I was improving coz I was pretty confident of something I had interpreted all by myself and it turned out in the end that while I had thought he was saying 'reverse' he actually meant 'university'.
Really wish I will improve more...
Anyway BSL lessons here are really cool. Even though the people I know are all in the other class and so I have more or less no friends in my class the lessons turned out surprisingly entertaining so far. Our teacher is a deaf person so he teaches us by signing. Which I thought would make things really really slow but surprisingly it does not. It is actually amazing how he hardly writes anything on the board and yet manages to communicate with us, teach us and on top of that, still manage to be funny and jovial. Heee and he is fat and chubby like the faceless person in the drawing (on top) which makes him all the more jolly and likeable.. Sad thing tho, I find it hard to interpret additional things that he teaches coz I do not understand the sounds and signs that he makes. The ang mohs are really perceptive tho. They always manage to understand what he is trying to say. Last lesson I thought I was improving coz I was pretty confident of something I had interpreted all by myself and it turned out in the end that while I had thought he was saying 'reverse' he actually meant 'university'.
Really wish I will improve more...
