Gallaudet and me 2

Transcript by Holly I was born deaf and grew up orally. My family is so good to me except that I had a difficult time catching up with my hearing friends by reading their lips. At age 14, my family and I saw this really cool flyer about deaf camp. I decided to go for myself and to kill my curiousty. When I got on the bus to deaf camp, I saw other deaf people using sign language and I thought I was too good for them because I could talk as a deaf person. When we split into groups at deaf camp site, I started to get to know the group better and felt more comfortable with the language and with them as well. After 1 week at deaf camp, I was a little bit sad that it was all over and wasn’t satisfied. I did enjoyed a great experience at the camp. I had a hard time to get back to my normal routine and talk again. When I graduated from high school, I went to a community college and 1 year later, it was 1988. My family and I saw on the news about Gallaudet Protest. I was fascinated with the situation at Gallaudet and debated if I should attend to the university for myself or not? Now, you all know that I’m with my husband, Jon. Jon was so lucky that he had the opportunity to go to Gallaudet for the first time this past spring. Now, it’s my turn to go after 19 years dream. Yay!!.