Let's hear it for friendship

I consider myself fortunate to have

many friends that I know I can count

on in any situation.  I hope they know

they can count on me as well.  To have

a friend you have to be a friend, right?  

I try to be the best friend I can be.

This card came out pretty well.  The first

time I made it I made the music background

waaaay too dark.  So I redid it and stamped

off once before I stamped it on the card.  

Now it's just visible without being obnoxious.

I'm looking forward to church today as always.

If I can stay awake that is.  I had trouble sleeping

last night and as is always the way, I started to

sleep well very early in the morning.  Promptly

at 450 am my carbon monoxide alarm started

chirping.  Chirp................Chirp..............Chirp.

Well, I knew what the problem was, it wanted

new batteries.  As soon as I replaced them

it shut up.  Meanwhile, I was wide awake.  Sigh.

I've been working on my assignment for

tomorrow's class.  This is what I have to

interpret:

Fortunately they will be reading it

sentence by sentence so you can interpret

it after they read the sentence.  I think

I will do OK.  In "real" interpreting, you are,

of course, not afforded the chance to read 

and learn what the person is going to say

ahead of time.  I recorded myself saying it

(my voice sounds terrible on a recording!)

and pause it after each sentence. I still

falter on a couple of words that I know 

but for some reason have trouble recalling

quickly, but other than that, I think I'll

get through it.  The interpreting isn't even 

the biggest hurdle, I don't think.  It's probably

 going to be nerves getting up in front of everyone.

I've survived so far, lol, so I guess I'll get 

through this too.   I guarantee you one thing:
Nehemiah is getting a sign name!  Finger spelling
that name every time will take me hours
and the class is only two hours long!