Even after four years, I am still having trouble adjusting to this new life. My days seem longer and my nights seem shorter. What I mean by that is during the day, the reality of not being able to hear cars, birds, voices, music, television, and being able to talk on the phone among other things are all gone now. Since it is summer break from college, (no stress of college) my days are filled with nothingness. My only escape is sitting on the computer and typing this blog. I am good at editing HTML coding and I do so on both my websites periodically just to have something to do. Although I'm glad it's summer break, I'm a bit bored in life. My nights are shorter because I sleep much better now that I can't hear anything. So I guess being deaf does have it's perks.
As I'm sitting here typing and taking a deep breath. I begin to visualize my life five years from now. I see myself working on a Software Development Team editing code. My dream is to one day be able to work from home either for someone, or for myself. But how do I communicate on my new job with my hearing co-workers? Is it such that I can have a full-time interpreter while I work an eight hour day? If there are any deaf employees reading my blog, please comment and share some light on this subject. Otherwise, what will become of my life now that I'm deaf?
College is certainly not easy for me because as I'm learning in my class (say English class), I'm also having learning sign language (while watching my two interpreters) at the same time. While my grades so far are pretty good, however, I have hit a few bumps here and there. The stress level last semester almost caused me to drop out. But luckily, I made it to the end of the semester, and it helps that I have people who are in my corner. It is in part because of them I've decided to continue pursuing my Computer Programming Degree.
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