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Personal Narrative: Adapting To The Deaf Community

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On March 10, 2017 I ate dinner with some people of the deaf community at Pie Five on rock road. This experience was very awkward for me. I never experienced anything like it. I was so amazed to see the popularity of the deaf community. I never knew the deaf community was so big. The deaf community had a lot of hearing people that attended only to learn new signs, some of these people were not students. There were no seats left for anyone outside of the people attending this event to eat at Pie Five. There was a lot of families that had to take their food to go. I was surprisingly shy but that didn’t stop anyone from coming up to me & asking me questions in sign language. At first myself & a few students from the class was sitting alone in a

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