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i love that i can sign.
i love that i can interpret.
on a side note, i get annoyed when people what to 'show me they can sign' and tell me how to sign. it's been 16 years, i got this sign language thing.

i also love the fact that i can work as a video interpreter. how amazing, yet totally crazy...i am in the middle of people's conversations and trusted to accurately relay the message. Kid calling mom to stay at a friends, elderly person calling the cable company, family members fighting, call from jail, grandpa saying hi to the grand kids.....you name it, we interpret it.

what blows me away is that the caller/receiver usually get to a point, pretty quickly, where it's as if they don't even know i'm there and the conversation has a life of its own.

Imagine if your life depended on another person relaying your message, if that is what you were accustom to because it's all you know!?! So much trust involved. the video phone provides a great amount of freedom, and it's sooooo precarious how we provide the service of interpretation and not takeover/help/control/interfere with the conversation. it's awesome.

this is what i do between calls, i think about the fact ta ht i'm here interpreting calls!