BonosBaby12 said:
It really was! To this day Im still not sure how they were able to manage it,lol. There were two girls in my class though who both had a deaf sibling so they were nice enough to help out. In the end it turned out beautiful
Have you been signing long?
(Forgive me those of you who've heard this before
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I started getting interested in signing back when I was pretty young because the church my family went to at the time had a ministry to the deaf - so there were signers at services. They also taught us a few signs in Sunday school for different songs... Skip ahead to the late 90s and me becoming a Fruhead (Moxy Fruvous fan)... One of my friends is hearing impaired and she starts teaching me signs to some Fruvous songs (which entertains Jian and Mike especially *
at the memories*), and I used those signs and bought my first signing dictionary to work on other songs. I signed for a bit (always in the crowd) to them (until they went on *sighpermanentsigh* hiatus) and some other bands I got introduced to through Fruvous, but pretty much stopped signing when I no longer had time/money to cross into the States to see those other bands... Skip ahead again to May of last year, when I went to my second Elevation show and my first October show, and the hands instinctively started signing again
It's hard to explain, but sometimes I just feel comfortable enough with a band automatically to want to do it, even if I don't do much immediately (since I won't know - if it's even noticed - how a musician will react). Funnily enough, I also automatically felt that comfortable when I went to see Pearl Jam this spring
The GTAers are used to me signing now, and I guess they kind of expect to see me doing it *snerk* Last year at ITH was the first time in *thinks* nearly five years that I'd ever signed on stage (and only the second time ever). Other than that, it's been strictly from the crowd... save Brady from Elevation pulling me up to sign most of WOWY at a show in July (and surprising the hell out of me when he did
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