Personal Reflection: My Deaf Culture Experience

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Kaden thornton

P. 6

12/15

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My deaf culture experience was the silent lunch that is where you do not talk with your vocal cords only in ASL. I do have to admit that my experience was not that fun or helpful because every one that planned to do it with did not do it with me so I was all alone. So all it was like i was mute i wished that it was better but it did get a good understand what it is like quite but nice but when i was ordering my lunch it was hard because no understand me. I would not do it again if i had to do it again alone but if i had a friend who would do it with me i think that it would get a more promising result and have a better time.

Then I did do the dce i did on dec 1 it was a thursday that

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