The straight dope on being deaf.

The other day, after a long hike with Nate Weaver resulting in a lot of extra photos, I was about to go into my dorm when I stopped to take one more picture. We have a student on campus who used to be completely deaf. He got some sort of implant which allows him to hear a little bit, and he can talk, but I always feel awkward because I have a hard time understanding (partly because I'm hard of hearing in one ear). But when he saw me taking a picture of this, he thought it was cool and said it looked like a feather. Right before I went to post this photo, my newsreader gave me this article on what language a deaf person thinks in; so I guess it's God's way of saying that everyone needs to read it and expand their understanding of deaf persons.

It's possible this will be my last post before spending a week hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. (It's supposed to rain all week. Yeehaw.)