Well things over here are great thanks to Jehovah. As mentioned in the blog title I put "room for improvement" because truthfully that's what happened to me this past week. Being in ASL is different as I have mentioned so many times before, lol. Asl includes acting, facial expression, movement, drawing and so much more. Well for meeting I would prepare by watching the assigned videos but I would also read the material and then write a comment out. However this posed a problem for me. Sometimes I would be hesitant to comment because I would translate the comment into sign in my head but didn't have the courage to comment because I doubted myself. Also I felt like I wasn't connected to the information, you know you study you prepare and it just clicks in your head right. Well sometimes I felt like it didn't click, I understood it but for me to comment or bond with the info lol wasn't really happening. So I decided to do something different, instead of write my comments out word for word I started drawing and I must say in the first meeting using the drawings I felt so different! I felt in sync with the program for the meeting and my comments just kind of flowed from my hands... I felt really comfortable and good. My lesson is that there is always room for improvement. To think me a person who can't draw at all, has no skill, but I draw, it may not be the best but it's drawing that I understand and can properly carry out into a comment. Moving to Asl is a transition, because you go from functioning like a hearing person but in order to be successful you must adapt and think like the deaf. Definately a work in progress that Jehovah provides so much support for! Below you'll see my drawings for last week watchtower study and at the bottom for our congregation book study.
Last Sunday I unfortunately broke the only mirrow I have at home. I moved it and dropped it lol. So after meeting I decided to take the local guagua and go to the store across town to purchase a new one. Well the pro is that the guagua passes right in front the Kingdom Hall, the con is that it takes forever sometimes lol. After the meeting pretty much everyone left and I stayed outside waiting, to my surprise I ended up with company lol. 4 gentleman stayed and kept me company.
In the picture you'll see our baptized deaf brother Robert who is wearing red, the third from the left is Starling who is deaf and unbaptized publisher, the other two are Starlings previous co-workers who are also deaf and attended the meeting. They are so sweet, and man they had me laughing!!! Really enjoyed my time with them. Side note- I love Starlings face!!!! Lol
So the other day Francisca a sister from my congregation came over to my house to teach me how to cook a Dominican dish. So after service we went to the street market to buy what we needed literally for less than $5 I got a almost a whole chicken, 3 lemons, 3 onions, celantro, and a couple other things. Trust me it was a great buy. Well while at the street market it's not like walmart or target...it's literally a street market, no hygiene, everything is on the ground, dogs and cats running free....sounds bad because it is but I'm used to it. Honestly I dont go all the time but you do find things cheaper. Anyways well what I saw this time really had me shocked. I've seen chuncks of meat hung before.... But this time I guess they recently killed the cow, so the guy hung the meat and was cutting it without wearing gloves, the cows head was just put on the shelf, there was a huge bucket on the floor full of other cow parts I couldn't distinguish.... And to top it all off there was the entire cows skin still in tact lol laying on the floor like dirty clothes!!!! Trust me I stood still for like 3 minutes trying to making sure I was looking at this right. See below check it for yourself.
Oh and this is the chicken post at the street market. The lady in red with glasses is Francisca my friend. 
Well in service today my friend Jael and I were walking to my study. On the way there were these 3 little girls playing jump rope. They didn't have rope though, they were literally using like telephone line wire lol. What you see on the tall wooden post near your home which are for the telephone lines, that's what they were using, it wasn't connected to any current of course but that long piece did serve it's purpose!! JUMP ROPE! Well walking by I got excited and they invited me to jump... And of course I said yes!!!!
