i'm tessa; under the terrible burden of destiny, laughing.
Speak out loud. Show that you aren't afraid by being emotional, or even the slightest gesture to say that you're human makes life more worthwhile.
Sign language and Music, two different worlds, one person.
if you don’t like people watching you, you have chosen the wrong profession.
I don’t at all mean to say that everyone who has ever been stage fright should give up the dream and walk away. I, in fact, mean the exact opposite.
It’s terrifying, having someone watch you as you sign for the first time… if at all possible, even worse when you interpret for the first time. It’s is knots-in-your-stomach, teeth-chattering, sweaty-palms horrifying to know that not only is someone going to watch you interpret, but they’re going to critique you.
The advice I’m about to give won’t happen easily, but you’ve probably already been told this several times over: Embrace it.
The entire point of ASL and interpreting is to take the world in using your eyes- don’t deny someone that right! Let them look! Let them tell you how to improve, but don’t ever give up! There is always room for improvement. Always.
Use that to show yourself how far you’ve come since the first time you ever signed your first vocabulary word, since the first day of your first interpreting class, and since the first time you actually went out during your clinical practice and had “real people” watch you.
It is so easy to be downtrodden. Defy those odds! There will be some projects and interpreting jobs you’ll rock, and there will be some you’ll walk away from feeling lousy. The goal is to make sure that at the end of the day, you end up with more of the former than the latter.
Be proud of what you’ve accomplished! Let people watch you! Let them critique you! And what’s more: watch yourself! You have just as much right to watch yourself as any of our classmates or teachers (if not more!) The camera can be your best friend and is probably the single easiest way of charting your progression from signing novice to interpreter extraordinaire!
Take a deep breath, and go for it!
Emma lml/
(via thatdeafdude)
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