I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
I went to college for about a year in California.
I taught high school students Spanish.
When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.
College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.
I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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