Interpreting

Just thought I would update you all on my schooling. Tomorrow is our last day, I am very excited to move on from learning vocabulary. It is important but can be very boring 90% of the time. Last monday we learned signs for body parts....All body parts, arms, legs, fingers, breasts, penis, vagina butt, collar bone. We also learned the body systems and signed them for the class in pairs. There was circulatory, respiratory, muscular/nervous, reproductive and skeletal. Of course with my luck I got reproductive and was paired with a woman who was divorced and so embarrassed that we had picked that card. I let her explain the man and I described the woman and the process of getting pregnant. I signed..."The woman has a vagina. She has a uterus, and ovaries and falopian tubes. Once a month,every month, an egg drops from an ovary into the falopian tube and when it reaches the uterus it has one day for the sperm and egg to meet for a conception. If this does not occur the egg drops and you bleed" Luckily the public school systems teaches all of this so I was not uncomfortable explaining this and I knew what i was talking about :)

I was also offered an intership to sign for the coaches for the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind (USDB). I am very excited to get out into the field. I was also very pleased that Jeff, he is the man over the interpreting program at DATC and got me the internship, thought I was skilled to take on this at the level of education I am at. 

The first time I went to the Deaf Center,this is where my internship is which is very nice because it is only in Taylorsville, much closer than my school,but the USDB was playing Skyline and Kyle Korver's little brother is on Skyline's team, Korver plays for the Utah Jazz which I found I had to explain to everyone i told. Korver has the highest percentage of 3 pointers in the NBA, and the most attractive player we have. He is similar to Ashton Kutcher. I watch the games with Danny just so I can see Kyle play:)

Christmas Treats

I decided to make caramel and chocolate dipped pretzles and apples to give to Rae and Danny's families. It was very quick and I had a lot of fun doing it. First i dipped them in the caramel, which you have to unwrap 50 individual squares of caramels....A little time consuming... You have to wait for the caramel to cool so that more will stick to what you are dipping, if you do it right when it has reached the liquid consistancy it will all slide off and you will be sad when you bite into that pretzle or apple. Once those harden you put on the chocolate. I found that the candy making chocolate did well, but i prefer the chocolate that you put into a chocolate fountain. You must wait until the chocolate has cooled other wise it will melt the caramel and make it gooey. There are many different things you can put on top, white chocolate, an assortmment of candies, toffee... I chose the white chocolate and just drizzled it with a fork, agian the cooling rule apples.

The Flat

A few weeks ago Maren had a flat tire and was at work. I was also at work and asked if i could fill it for her because i didn't like the idea of her driving on a flat because that will cause the tire to rip or the rim to bend... No good can come from it. So I drove over to her car down to the 7-11 and went to fill the tire. As i have the air hose pressed against the nozzle I hear the air coming out and see no signs of it filling. I loook to my right and notice the huge hole in the tire. I begin to think of ways that i can remedy this... I wasn't sure if Maren had a spare tire so i thought i could just put mine on. I am frantically texting Jordan because I don't know what to do. I have no idea how to change a tire... Jordan did not like hearing that and rushed over to help me. We discussed the probable causes of putting my spare onto her car. With much fuss we discovered that my tire was too small and that Maren actually had a spare tire in her trunk. She did end up having to buy a new tire but she bought a little bit of time with her spare.