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I enjoyed your first pizza vlog. It came to me as shock that even a Deaf person would be shocked upon meeting a Deaf pizza delivery guy. It says a lot about our attitude towards hearing people.
I was bothered by your comment that we are “alone” when going into the hearing world. This is not always true. While there are many ignorant hearing people regarding this type of topic, there also are many hearing people out there who know that we can do absolutely anything.
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As a former deaf employment specialist for almost a decade, I was impressed that you sold yourself well, to convience owner to give you a trial period of two weeks. I heard from others that they tried this way too and ended up working for long time. True, must show determination and motivation to show that you can do it job! Overcome their doubts! Thanks for lessons to not give up. Pizza? Two days ago already! Frozen one, opps. 🙂
As always you never cease to make me laugh!
However I love the point you made – sometimes a Deaf person have to go out into the hearing world for jobs or whatever but he or she is always welcome to come back “home.”
Very true – As a graduate student I am surrounded by hearies and if I want to stay in San Diego to teach, it is likely I will have to teach at a public high school, again, surrounded by hearies. It’s nice to know I have a comfort place to go to if I need or want to.
Thanks, Jon!
wonderful as always! Insightful, positive, poetic, simply great. Thank you. I am truly blessed to have met and worked with you. You inspire me. Sending you many hugs.
How about organic pizza? Shall we eat together? I am willing to wait for you to delivery to my home in two weeks since you live in California. 😀
Thank you for sharing with us! I have a few friends work as pizza delivery.
i love u so much! my fav part is ur conclusion lol
Everytime I see your blog name I drool on “Pizza”.
Great expression on your face as you spoke with ASL. Thumbs up
Just wanted to tell you… your ASL and your facial expression are great and funny!!! I’m learning so much from you. I used to work with hearing people and I was only deaf in big company… really I had hard time with people who talking too fast and told them to write down… I wasn’t feel that lonely. Depends on people who is shy and quiet can be lonely and focus on their jobs… and come home to relax and feel comfortable as you said.
Keep it up… KEEP GOING!!!
Gotta have Pizza tonight for dinner 🙂
about your saying these that make me thinking even those I’m not alone 🙂 but I take challenge no matter who I’m. but your end show ha pizza you gone order for us! hey save me some! ship over FEDEX hehehe
hi Jon, I didn’t know how to reply to your video reply to my vlog (the google link doesn’t have a comment page)… can you go to my site and in the comments page, see the link of my video reply to your video reply 🙂
Here’s my vlog about my experience as pizza deliver for Papa Johns. Here’s the link – http://www.xanga.com/FlaKyboy
Hi!
I’ve read your vlog about delivering the pizza. It is very interesting, because I am working as window treatment installer, my duty is to install the blinds at customer’s home/factory/hospitals/police station/hi-rise buildings/etc in Washington DC area. Funny thing is that I haven’t met a deaf customer yet. I’m 5th generation deaf, and my family/relatives lives in Moscow, Russia. My Russian friend, who is also working as installer, and he is the one who recruited me. Now, back to the point, I’m working with hearing people everyday, and it was very challenging in the beginning, but once I get used with hearing people, it makes my “work life” more enjoyable, because every hearing person are different. Most of the times, customer and I communicate through the gestures. It’s cool to see some hearing people sign with a funny creative gestures that you would never think of. Of course, working as pizza deliveryman, and window installer’s duty are much different, because of time. Now, I’ve wondered why you’re having awful moments about deaf people, eventhough you are in deaf world? I think those (deaf) people need to learn how to approach hearing people properly, such as giving tips (15%), not signing ASL to them, etc. It is definitely immature. Oh, maybe deaf schools’ fault? parents? … damn!
Hi Jon!
I am an ASL Deaf teacher at E.C. Drury School for the Deaf in Milton, Ontario, teaching the ASL Curriculum to ASL Deaf students from grades 4 to 8 (there is another ASL Teacher for Junior Kindergarten to Grade 4).
My ASL Deaf students love your vlog about deaf pizza delivery persons!
I have been teaching my grade 8 students how to effectively use “pauses” when doing ASL storytelling, and your vlogs on the pizza topic showed excellent examples of “pauses”.
May I get a copy of both your “Can a Deaf Person deliver pizza?” and your response ‘Response” , either by email or by DVD for educational purposes, so I can use for my lessons and show to my students why we use pauses in ASL storytelling.
Looking forward to receving your response!
Linda