Exciting News

Well, I am very excited to share some news! I wanted to share that I got a job! Now there are a few reasons why this is so exciting. I want to be a sign language interpreter. I love sign language. I have shifted gears and focus of what I had been doing. For the last 3 1/2 years I have been working with parents whose children were taken from them due to abuse, neglect, abandonment. I worked with these parents and taught them parent skills and life management skills. We covered discipline, nutrition, safety, appropriate behavior, development stages, and interaction with the child and actually having interaction. We covered hygiene, home skills, budgeting, job skills, transportation, community resources, how to seek resources, housing and seeking it, getting it, keeping it. I had lived, breathed, dreamed, talked, and done this job for so long that I was beginning to feel like it was my whole life. The people that I worked with, the parents, were people who taught me many, many valuable lessons. I learned so many things from working with them. It has been a very challenging and growing processes the last 3 1/2 years. There are some very good memories and good times and there are other times that were very hard and difficult to deal with and work through. I nearly wanted to just strangle my client(s). I've gained so many skills from that job that I really don't know of any other job that could teach such a variety of skills. Now, I was at a point that I needed to get a job and I was tired of working in the field that I had been working in. That was when I began thinking about how much I loved sign language. So, I decided that I wanted to start working with people in the deaf community. So, I got hooked up with a website that had a bunch of different agencies and I made some calls and sent out some emails and after some responses and correspondence I got myself a job. I know am going to be working at Center for Hearing Impaired Children. They work with the State school which is Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind. I am going to be a Preschool Teacher's Assistant. I am so excited. I have my foot in the door of the deaf community now and so it will be that much easier to maneuver around in different areas that I would really like to get some experience as I will be working towards getting my sign language interpreting. The people that I met that I will be working with are the sweetest people and just so kind and generous. I am just so excited. I am going to learn so much from this position and I just can't wait to begin!!! :)