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Personal Narrative: My First Deaf Event

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For my first Deaf Event I decided to attend the ASL Study Hall at the Cato Campus on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 from 4 to 6pm. I was nervous about going at first, mainly because I didn’t know how many people were going to show up, or if anyone I knew was going to be there. Thankfully four of my classmates were, so that helped. There were about twenty or so students and we all made a circle while waiting for Shannon and Sam to arrive. They arrived a bit late and Shannon got right to it on asking each of us what our plans for that weekend, as well as for Halloween. Halloween was a new sign for me, and I was thankful to learn it, because of my next Deaf event where many people asked what I was doing for the holiday. Sense there was a good amount

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