Personal Narrative: My Life Experiment

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Life Experiment My life experiment was to learn and memorize 5 new signs a day. Along with learning new signs, once a week I did a worksheet from a workbook I got for Christmas. After getting sign language flashcards, workbooks, and a sign language dictionary, I was and still am feeling motivated to learn five new signs a day. This was my choice for my life experiment because in college I want to major in Communication Sciences and Disorders, to eventually become a Speech Pathologist. A Speech Pathologist helps either kids or adults who have a difficulty in their speech which, in some cases, means working with patients that are hard of hearing. Learning Sign Language is essential in becoming my dream career. Throughout the two weeks I participated in the Life Experiment, I was both …show more content…

Thoreau says, "we do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.” I did not "ride on the railroad," through the time I spent with this experiment. I made the railroad ride upon me. I took control of my own life, using sign language to help me express my emotions. Similarly, I hope I will never let life control me, I want to control the way I live. I didn't let my problems stress me out by using American Sign Language to calm myself down and to live life to it's full potential. I became a person who remains faithful to my personal vision, to become a more moral, idealistic individual. In conclusion, I chose Sign Language as my two week life experiment. I learned to use Sign Language to express and control my emotions. I learned that working hard and succeeding is a great achievement. Emerson believes, "the reward of a thing well done is to have done it." The best reward is completing what you put your mind to. Completing and succeeding in the Life Experiment is a sense of an accomplishment and it comes with great

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