Here’s a post to say hello to my ers and new ers. Thank you for ing me and my journey with my cooking and recipes. As most of you know I’m deaf and learning Australia Sign Language (Auslan) with my Sign Guide who is helping guide my future career. Learning new language skills with sign language is giving me the confidence to find myself again from the continued loss of the very little hearing that I did have.
Every now and again, I’ll be doing small videos in my stories so that you can see my journey and (hopefully!) see my confidence grow. I used to hear and lip read, this means my ‘speaking’ language is short and too brief to really fit in to the deaf community world fully. My sentences are still not very long when I’m communicating and I’m relying on body language skills to help understand things as it makes things a little easier.
That means that I used to say “would you like to come with me to the beach tomorrow?” but now it’s more like “you, me go beach tomorrow”. It has not been easy to retrain myself and it has opened a new self-awareness and has given me patience I didn’t know I had. I’m more aware than ever of the deaf community and the challenges they face. What I can say is that I’m loving this new journey and learning more each day. I am so excited to be reaching into my new future and finding new goals.
Through my cooking skills I hope to one day have the opportunity to teaching cooking through sign language for the deaf communities. I have a voice that needs to be heard and helping is such a rewarding feeling. It’s something that I know is worth doing and I’m passionate about it. Thank you all so much for your sharing your ideas and inspirations with me and for supporting me in this journey. Love Lisa ????????
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