A little birdie told me

I got this set of crazy bird stamps

in the mail yesterday .  There's 4 more 

in the set.  Guess how much I paid

for them?  Nothing!  I ordered them 

from Amazon with gift cards that I

got from Bing Rewards (now microsoft

rewards).  It only takes a few minutes

a day and about once a month

I get a 5.00 gift card.  It doesn't sound

like much but it adds up quickly.

This card is for a lady in our sign 

class who broke her wrist....

Last pic (obviously) is a top view.  I think I've

posted a double zed card before.  Or "Z" as we

Americans call it.

I started the interpreter prep class last night.

I was scared to death and about to run when

I heard what we were going to do.  Seriously.

I thought about "getting something from my

car" and leaving!  We had to write a card about

ourselves, why we wanted to learn sign, where

we thought we might go with it, things like

that.  Then we passed it to the person

on the left.  They familiarized themselves

with what was written, then the person who

wrote it read it and you had to interpret.

Naturally I got my teacher from last 

semester who, of course, already interprets.

Now I'm really freaked out.  So she begins

to read and there were only two, maybe three 

words I wasn't sure of so I tried to use a

different word that meant the same thing.

When I was done she looked at me and

said, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe how

well you did!  She even looked shocked.

I think she had her doubts about me in

the 3rd class, but much of my problem

is that I just can't understand what 

someone else is signing very well.  I

hear that will come...eventually.  That really

boosted my confidence.  I'm just so shy

about signing in front of people and don't

have confidence that what I'm signing

is right or that it will be understood.  So I'm

glad I decided to take the class in the

first place and decided not to run at the

beginning!