I'm scheduled to head to Nepal the first week of September, which gives me 2 months to get a rediculous amount of stuff accomplished. Lists will come first: Timelines for what I need to do for both travel preparation and my thesis, packing lists, etc. Next it will be time to actually start getting everything finished!
In deference to my talent for procrastination, I'll give a mini-background to tell you who I am and how I got to this point before I begin the preparation/orginzation/mad thesis writing :)
Why I'm going to Nepal: I recently received a grant to study deaf education and literacy in Nepal for 10 months, and I'm hoping to understand how the Nepali people approach deaf education, learn Nepali sign language, and otherwise return far more knowledgeable than I am now.
What's all this mad thesis writing about? I'm finishing up a MS degree in Deaf Education and Literacy at Idaho State University. My master's paper will be on teaching vocabulary to the deaf (in the United States).
What exactly is "almost-deaf"? Basically, I'm more deaf than I was a few weeks ago, not as deaf as I'll be a few weeks from now, and changing all the time! And that's the beauty of a progressive hearing loss....
That's all for now - on to more productive things!
