Month completed: July 2008

Getting a bit of publicity for Project 183 has meant that I have started to get some requests from people to help me achieve certain goals.

One of the generous people who offered their assistance to me was Sarah, who offered to teach me some basic sign language. To be more specific, Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Sarah is very experienced in Auslan, as both her parents, and her two sisters, are deaf.

After about 25 emails back and forth, we managed to arrange a catch up at Fed Square, and over a hot chocolate she taught me:

- the alphabet,

- numbers up to 20,

- hello / goodbye,

- how are you?

- my name is…

- I’m really great

- Where is the toilet?

- I’m hot / cold / hungry / thirsty

- Nice to meet you

I plan to teach Nat now, so that we can speak to each other in a whole new way. I also plan to continue to learn new words on an on-going basis.

While writing this post, I stumbled across sign language keyrings (the letter H is below, although it is different to what I learnt). 

Click here to check out the full range. 

Footnote – You may have noticed that I achieved this goal back in July. I actually also wrote the text for this post back then too, but was also going to put up a video of me doing some sign-language. Unfortunately, things kept getting in the way, and rather than delay this post any further, I thought I would just put it up as is.