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scharffen berger and sign language...
Feb. 20th, 2007 01:50 pmand the story of how J9 helped 4 people learn about chocolate.
so i went to SBC for my interview this morning. got there in about 30 minutes. traffic wasn't too bad. so i waited outside for someone to let me in, and i was approached by a really nice man who asked me if i was there for an interview. i said yes and he showed me where to enter. i met with terry and had my interview. very informal. then he asked me if i would like to go on the tour so i could see it from a different side (since i had already been on a tour previously)...of course i said sure. so i hung around the store for a bit, and i noticed a group of 4 people who were signing. i overheard a conversation with someone else that they didn't have an interpreter. as we started the tour, i kinda fell behind the small group of 4 and helped them out the door. then i decided...why not...and i tapped the lady who appeared to be in charge and told her the leader's name was terry. (i finger spelled it out to her.) i explained (well she got the idea anyway) that i knew very little sign and would try to help them out as much as possible. she said her name was bev (spelled) and asked me my name...so i spelled out my name. so i think that made her feel a little better. i explained to terry as we were going into the building that i knew a bit of sign language and that i would try to help out as much as possible. during the information part of the tour, i spelled a bit, signed a bit, and mostly used paper to try to explain to them what was happening. it seemed to work. they got the idea. then we went through the factory. again i spelled, signed, and wrote as much as i could to explain what everything was. they all appreciated it. at the end we finished at the shop again. i told them that was the end of the tour, and bev thanked me. i told her that they could look around and see if they wanted to buy anything. then i waited for terry. he said that i needed to talk to someone else...i think her name was vivienne or something like that. she got my resume and we started talking. oddly enough she asked me if i was at pantheacon this weekend. i said yes and she said she was on staff there. she worked the auction. i felt a bit more at ease. she also made comment about me working at the ren faire. we talked about that a bit. it was more like friends who haven't seen each other for a long time talking versus an interview of sorts. we were interrupted by one of the other employees asking about faires...she's from new york and wanted to know more about faires out here. i would have liked to talk to her about it, but i knew that i should be more focused. then we started talking about days that i would need off for meetings and i knew that would put me in the part time category. she wrote down the days and made notes. hopefully i will hear more soon.
i think i made a good impression by taking on a challenge, but he was so straight faced and didn't say thank you for helping...i have no idea what is in his head. the hard part for me is that no one seemed to want to help these people out at all. i knew that somehow they wanted to go on the tour and they needed to know what was being said. so i'm wondering how i can take classes and have them paid for...we'll have to see what happens.
now i'm at home and about to start working on baycon stuff. i need to get my act together for that convention 'cos i know that i'm not together enough right now. i've been very scattered for a long time already and that's not going to work when push comes to shove.
so i went to SBC for my interview this morning. got there in about 30 minutes. traffic wasn't too bad. so i waited outside for someone to let me in, and i was approached by a really nice man who asked me if i was there for an interview. i said yes and he showed me where to enter. i met with terry and had my interview. very informal. then he asked me if i would like to go on the tour so i could see it from a different side (since i had already been on a tour previously)...of course i said sure. so i hung around the store for a bit, and i noticed a group of 4 people who were signing. i overheard a conversation with someone else that they didn't have an interpreter. as we started the tour, i kinda fell behind the small group of 4 and helped them out the door. then i decided...why not...and i tapped the lady who appeared to be in charge and told her the leader's name was terry. (i finger spelled it out to her.) i explained (well she got the idea anyway) that i knew very little sign and would try to help them out as much as possible. she said her name was bev (spelled) and asked me my name...so i spelled out my name. so i think that made her feel a little better. i explained to terry as we were going into the building that i knew a bit of sign language and that i would try to help out as much as possible. during the information part of the tour, i spelled a bit, signed a bit, and mostly used paper to try to explain to them what was happening. it seemed to work. they got the idea. then we went through the factory. again i spelled, signed, and wrote as much as i could to explain what everything was. they all appreciated it. at the end we finished at the shop again. i told them that was the end of the tour, and bev thanked me. i told her that they could look around and see if they wanted to buy anything. then i waited for terry. he said that i needed to talk to someone else...i think her name was vivienne or something like that. she got my resume and we started talking. oddly enough she asked me if i was at pantheacon this weekend. i said yes and she said she was on staff there. she worked the auction. i felt a bit more at ease. she also made comment about me working at the ren faire. we talked about that a bit. it was more like friends who haven't seen each other for a long time talking versus an interview of sorts. we were interrupted by one of the other employees asking about faires...she's from new york and wanted to know more about faires out here. i would have liked to talk to her about it, but i knew that i should be more focused. then we started talking about days that i would need off for meetings and i knew that would put me in the part time category. she wrote down the days and made notes. hopefully i will hear more soon.
i think i made a good impression by taking on a challenge, but he was so straight faced and didn't say thank you for helping...i have no idea what is in his head. the hard part for me is that no one seemed to want to help these people out at all. i knew that somehow they wanted to go on the tour and they needed to know what was being said. so i'm wondering how i can take classes and have them paid for...we'll have to see what happens.
now i'm at home and about to start working on baycon stuff. i need to get my act together for that convention 'cos i know that i'm not together enough right now. i've been very scattered for a long time already and that's not going to work when push comes to shove.
