aud’acious

I substituted for a BYU American Sign Language class today.  It was scheduled for an hour and forty minutes.  The funny part of this was I asked the teacher if she wanted me to teach anything specific so she gave me her power point.  I looked through it and went, wow, this looks a little lecturish so I decided to spice it up a little.  Needless to say, one of the students asked me half way through if I taught high school.  Go figure.  I’m too used to playing when I teach.  But I think we had fun.  At least I did.  And the students let me sign the whole time which draws enormous complaints when I try to do that at the high school.  Oh well.  I like those teenagers. 

This post is a request from someone who wanted me to share my most recent odd/aud moments.  I really think, though, that these might be–you had to be there–moments.  But, here are a couple.

First–my students sorta have this unspoken deal with me.  If I treat them nice, they will tell me where the remote is.  In other words, I’m notorious for putting it somewhere and not remembering where.

Or, I work with a team every Wednesday interpreting for BYU.  Last week we were clocking out and talking.  As we walked away he said, “Are you charging that one to your credit card?”  Apparently I had swiped my credit card instead of my staff ID.

I wanted to try it.  A presentation at a professional conference.  So I did, mostly to see what kind of adventure that would be.  I dressed fresh and professional, pulled my hair up, strategically wore glasses and brought a power point.  It was all about some of the unique projects I do with students to help them learn languages and included the trip to Palestine, etc.  I learned a few things–it wasn’t well attended partially because the room was very difficult to find and most people I knew couldn’t find it.  But there was a group there and they asked questions and I felt like it went well.  Mostly I already decided before I went in there that my measure of success was to do it.  If I got through it, I passed.  So I passed.

And as I close out this work week I can say that I am completely and utterly exhausted…in lots of ways.  But, it’s done and over.  Monday is still a few days away.  I wish I wanted to play this weekend…and I do have some plans on the horizon, but mostly I just want to curl up in a ball, drink something warm–it’s colder outside now–and not be responsible for anything.

Everyone’s talking about it.  My students talked about it.  They asked me if I was going to vote.  Yep.  I voted.  So exciting.