Have I got news!

Dear Blog :)

How are you? I'm fine.. estatic! I finally got some work and for a long time too :).. I'm replacing mss Karolien till the end of the school in june. It's just great! The school is called 'Sancta Maria' and is located in Sint Martens Latem, not that far from Deinze. It's only one bus away.. (about half an hour) I have a small nice class with children age 4. Only 14! + 7 children of juf Linda's classroom also join in during the day.. I've been through my first week allready, having work all of the time. First in 'Sint Hendriks College' in Deinze.. (where I also had to guide my first trainee-kindergartenteacher) .. and now in Sint Martens Latem where the BC is about Saint Nicolas.. (he's almost coming you know..)
I'm really happy to have work.. Mic's very happy too! He even went there when he was young.. he did his fifth and sixt year at elementary school. Cool huh?!

My class really looks nice.. although i'm planning too change it a bit (much :P).. then I can store a couple of my things there too. awell.. that's a plan for the next holiday!

Did you know..
- I have yet again my drivers permit exam to do?! It's one more week left! The 7th of December.. i'm going to have the drive of my life!.. it's quite shity too.. I have to start at 8.15AM.. in the morning! When everyone's on the street! oh dear oh dear oh dear... please.. light me a candle for help :)

- I'm leaving Belgium! Yes I doo.. i'm going on a holiday with my mum to Germany :).. it's on the 22th of December and we're doing some kind of cruise and some Christmasshopping and so on.. it's with the buscompany we once went on a trip with .. (to luxemburg) 'Flamingo'.
And no.. Mic's not coming too bad! I wanted to go with my mum :) and as a surprise I will pay everything :)

Well .. see you soon!
love..
xxSara

A language not spoken..

Dear blog..

I have started the best thing ever since the invention of talking. It's sign language..
No.. i'm not really deaf or have a bad hearing.. (well over the latter can be discussed!) :P
I finally took the chance of particpating on a course in Ghent.. and it's just great.
It's every tuesday from 7.30PM to 9.30PM and we do lots of things.

Our teacher is called Monique and she is really deaf. She teaches it very good.. the 2 hours fly by every time. I'm in my first year, and it's about 4 years.. so i'm pretty hooked. There are many people from students to even pshycologists.. only 2 teachers, me and onother (but she's from highschool) I allreay met 2 nice girls and there are even boys! There are about 25 peeps every time.

And it sure is a beautiful language! Maybe I will upload a vid of me when doing signlanguage and show everything I learned allready :D hmm.. maybe :D

We started with the alphabet and now we're doing non stop signing, from introducing yourself to tell about your family.. and so on! It started in October and goes on till April. I hope to achieve this dream to use signing language in education in a few years from now.. :) See the Flemish alphabet here:

Want some more information about Signlanguage?
1. I'm learning the Flemish Sign Language.
2. There are different types of Signing even in the Flemish parts of Belgium.. they even have some kinds of 'dialects', and in different parts of Belgium some signing is sometimes a bit different.
3. So you can understand that also every country has it's signing language!
4. What is Signing Language? Says Wiki: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebarentaal (dutch.. but also in English ;) )
5. Where am I taking my courses? http://www.fevlado.be/index.aspx?wensen=True
6. Why did I start taking this? Well.. in my sixt year of High School I had to do an EndPaper about 'Language development'.. of children. In that paper I spend a part talking about 'Bad developments and bad hearing/Deaf children..) in my research on that I was really so interested by everything I saw on the subjects! I went to see logopedists and I even thought about going in to University to become a logopedist ! Till this day.. i'm still find it a pity I didn't do that.. ah well. A couple of years ago, I was every time too late to apply to this course, but this year I was sooo fast :P and I'm in :D
7. Flemish Signing language on the internet: http://gebaren.ugent.be/

9. If you want to know your name in Flemish Signing alfabet.. look at the list below! Have fun!!

Love..

xxSara