History Of Sign Language

American sign language has been a very important part of my life. When started high school I was so excited there was so many things that I wanted to try. When it came time to pick a language to take I pick sign language, everyone said that was stupid because no one uses that, but I thought its something different and I wanted to learn more.

The first week of sign language I don't even have the words for it. One of the projects we had to do was we had to experience what being deaf was like, we all had to wear plugs in our ears for the whole days, I know a lot of people didn't but I did we couldn't talk or anything it was so hard, when I got home I cried because I know how deaf people must feel like when they cannot

get their point across.

I worked so hard in sign language I tried to do everything that I could to be apart of the program. But when I got to experience talking to a real deaf person and how they told me that they were proud of me because not many deaf people would learn there language. I cried, I felt so good about myself. This year has been the hardest because I thought I was going to go into deaf education, but god has push me into a different direction, I will always keep signing close to my heart because without it I would not know who I am today. I came out of my shell because of sign language and I will never lose that. I plan on learning more because there is so much more to learn.