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Wow! I earned my paycheck today lemme tell ya ok...in the high school where I interpret, we should have 5 interpreters. That's only after consolidating some of the students who had the same classes but different periods. Otherwise we were going to need 9. Anyway...right now we have 3. 1 interpreter had a doctors appointment this morning so didn't come in until 11, so we had to deal with 2 interpreters for..oh..i dunnno...18 or 20 students!!! Yeah..fun. Actually ..the toughest part was creating a schedule and figuring out who to pull from the least important class. Ok, you can miss gym because there needs to be an interpreter in the reading class.. etc. Anyway. I don't understand why some classes have 2 and 3 teachers. Why do they speak at the same time? Why do they repeat each other? HOLYCARP!!! My hands were Smokin'!!!! Even on the absolutely WORST day (and I think today was it lol) It's still about ten million times better than any serving job!!!!! hahahahahaa |
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I'm don't help or encourage. Well..not techincally. I just interpret what the teacher says...what the student does with the information after that is their business. High schools need interpreters because the Deaf students can't hear. LOL And the thing is with Sign Language..there is no voice over...Soooooooo that means we do what's called Simultaneous Interpreting. I am signing the same information that the teacher speaks, but I'm about 4-7 seconds behind him/her. It's a constant barrage of information. Unlike spoken languages which do consecutive interpreting....The presenter speaks a sentence or 2 and stops and waits for it to be interpreted and then speaks again. Same idea when the deaf person is signing..I'm speaking what they just signed 4-7 seconds ago, but am still paying attention to what theyre still signing while I'm speaking. Either sign-to-voice or voice-to-sign, it's the same process...taking information and expressing into the target language. It's multi tasking job..but I love it. I'd be bored otherwise. lol OH..and I've had this job, but have been out for the summer. That's why I overloaded myself in the restaurants.
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HAHAHAHA it's my old job back again cause summer is over. LOL It's just different because they used to have block schedule ( 4 classes a day/ 90 minutes each) and now it's traditional schedule. Plus there were only 3 deaf seniors who graduated last year but 6 kids moved up from middle school..means more classes,,,more students..need more interpreters. Spanish I'm still working on my degree in that..classes started tonight. Chinese? I'm all set..you can have that one. LOL
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