Audio Transcript Auto-generated
- 00:00 - 00:04
Hi, I'm Nicole Donohoe and this is my personal history timeline.
- 00:05 - 00:08
First we have E. S. L. In elementary school.
- 00:08 - 00:13
Now this picture is actually the elementary school that I went to and there the E. S.
- 00:13 - 00:13
L.
- 00:13 - 00:16
Program was introduced whenever I was in second grade,
- 00:16 - 00:19
students from my class as well as other classes were pulled to
- 00:19 - 00:23
fill this classroom in and honestly I was a little bit jealous,
- 00:23 - 00:25
I didn't really understand why these certain
- 00:25 - 00:27
students were being pulled and I wasn't,
- 00:27 - 00:29
it didn't really make sense to me.
- 00:29 - 00:35
Um but as I got older I learned why they were being pulled and why I wasn't being pulled
- 00:37 - 00:37
next.
- 00:37 - 00:40
My first friend that spoke another language,
- 00:40 - 00:44
her name was Kourtney and her family moved to my
- 00:44 - 00:47
town whenever we were both in fourth grade she was
- 00:47 - 00:49
in my class and she ended up sitting next to
- 00:49 - 00:52
me because our last names were really close together.
- 00:52 - 00:56
We instantly became best friends and we taught each other all about our lives,
- 00:56 - 00:58
our cultures and our languages.
- 00:58 - 01:00
She even taught me a little bit of korean.
- 01:00 - 01:05
Um We would always take cheesy pictures together. I don't have any with me.
- 01:05 - 01:07
But the picture in the slide
- 01:07 - 01:10
can kind of emulate the kind of stuff that we would do together.
- 01:10 - 01:14
She ended up moving away in seventh grade but we still keep in touch today.
- 01:16 - 01:20
Alright so whenever I was a junior in high school my
- 01:20 - 01:23
sister was a freshman um for three years I had taken
- 01:23 - 01:27
spanish and I was really encouraging her to take spanish too
- 01:27 - 01:30
that way I could help her out in her classes.
- 01:30 - 01:35
However, she was very adamant in taking french, she wanted to do things her own way.
- 01:35 - 01:38
And together we both learned how different the
- 01:38 - 01:40
languages that we were each learning were,
- 01:40 - 01:42
we would try and do homework together.
- 01:42 - 01:43
Um
- 01:43 - 01:45
but it ended up not working out very well,
- 01:47 - 01:50
but that is the two of us in the picture, in this slide
- 01:52 - 01:53
next,
- 01:54 - 01:57
I ended up taking another year of spanish in college,
- 01:57 - 01:59
so that's four years altogether.
- 01:59 - 02:04
Um I actually did notice a lot of differences however, between these classes.
- 02:04 - 02:07
Um whenever I was in high school,
- 02:07 - 02:11
I noticed that a lot of the lectures and the lessons that
- 02:11 - 02:14
we were being taught were not only about the spanish language,
- 02:14 - 02:16
but also about the culture and
- 02:16 - 02:21
the food, the travel of everyday lives, that kind of stuff.
- 02:21 - 02:26
Um while compared to my college classes, it was very different.
- 02:26 - 02:29
My professor was strictly language.
- 02:29 - 02:32
We did vocab every single day and we didn't really
- 02:32 - 02:36
learn a whole lot about anything other than the language
- 02:37 - 02:40
and this leads us into our next slide.
- 02:40 - 02:45
In high school, one of my math classes had a substitute that mostly spoke spanish.
- 02:45 - 02:48
He barely spoke any english at all.
- 02:48 - 02:49
Um
- 02:49 - 02:53
he had a very strong accent and because of
- 02:53 - 02:55
that my classmates were blatantly rude to him,
- 02:55 - 02:59
they ignored his instructions, which my art teacher left for him
- 03:00 - 03:02
and they disrupted the class just because they felt
- 03:02 - 03:05
like they could and I heard comments like,
- 03:05 - 03:07
oh, what is he going to say?
- 03:08 - 03:12
It's still not ok to act like that, even if the teacher can't say anything back,
- 03:12 - 03:14
it was really rude and disrespectful,
- 03:14 - 03:18
and I still think about that to this day and I wish that I would have stood up for him,
- 03:19 - 03:21
but back then I was really shy. So,
- 03:22 - 03:24
alright, next
- 03:24 - 03:27
Alright, so whenever I moved to Corpus Christi,
- 03:27 - 03:29
it was because I was moving away for college.
- 03:29 - 03:33
This was actually the first time I've ever moved away from home in my life.
- 03:33 - 03:36
I lived in the same house all 18 years.
- 03:36 - 03:41
Um and I grew up in a very small town, not a lot of culture, not a lot of diversity.
- 03:41 - 03:42
Pretty much
- 03:43 - 03:47
almost every household looked the same to put it lightly.
- 03:47 - 03:51
Um whenever I moved to a big city, it was so different.
- 03:51 - 03:53
There was so much more diversity.
- 03:53 - 03:55
There were so many different languages,
- 03:55 - 04:00
like every single day I would hear a different language, and it was honestly,
- 04:00 - 04:02
it was a little bit shocking at first,
- 04:02 - 04:07
I didn't really realize how many different languages there were in
- 04:08 - 04:09
where I lived, you know?
- 04:09 - 04:13
Um but it was very eye opening and I really, really loved that college,
- 04:13 - 04:15
especially because of the diversity.
- 04:15 - 04:18
I met a ton of amazing people.
- 04:18 - 04:21
I made a ton of friends and I actually really miss that place.
- 04:23 - 04:24
Speaking of college,
- 04:25 - 04:28
zoom into the picture of Corpus Christi. My apologies.
- 04:29 - 04:35
Alright, so speaking of college I took A. S. L. As my next language.
- 04:35 - 04:37
I wanted to try something a little bit different than
- 04:37 - 04:39
spanish just because I had done spanish for so long,
- 04:39 - 04:42
it kind of felt repetitive at that point.
- 04:42 - 04:43
Um
- 04:43 - 04:47
So I decided to try a sl and my professor was actually
- 04:47 - 04:52
deaf so he could not hear us and he couldn't speak english.
- 04:52 - 04:54
Um The only way,
- 04:54 - 05:00
the only day that we ever had an interpreter was the very first day of class.
- 05:00 - 05:03
Other than that we kind of had to go off of
- 05:04 - 05:08
our own interpretations and it was actually really easy to catch on.
- 05:08 - 05:12
Um I really loved this language and I want to
- 05:12 - 05:16
learn more about it and it was really exciting to learn
- 05:17 - 05:21
about like a whole new community of people that I had never really learned about.
- 05:21 - 05:24
And deaf culture is something that I think
- 05:25 - 05:26
we should be more educated on.
- 05:28 - 05:31
And with that we get to our last slide which
- 05:31 - 05:36
was the first time I watched anime quote unquote subbed.
- 05:36 - 05:38
Um If you don't know what sub means,
- 05:38 - 05:41
it means that the audio of the show is in
- 05:41 - 05:44
its original japanese audio and the subtitles are in english
- 05:45 - 05:46
growing up,
- 05:46 - 05:50
I watched a lot of animate but I would only really watch it dubbed because
- 05:50 - 05:53
that's what was available to me and whenever I learned that I could watch it
- 05:54 - 05:59
another way I was really excited and Death Note was the first um
- 05:59 - 06:02
the first anime that I watched subbed all the way through.
- 06:02 - 06:07
And it was actually, it was a very different experience. I'm used to being able to
- 06:08 - 06:10
do other tasks while I'm watching a show.
- 06:10 - 06:14
However, I had to sit and pay attention to the show,
- 06:14 - 06:16
which actually really got me into it.
- 06:16 - 06:20
And now I really only watch my enemies with subtitles.
- 06:22 - 06:25
And with that, that is the end of my presentation.
- 06:25 - 06:28
Thank you for listening and thank you for watching
- 06:29 - 06:31
and I hope you have a great day.