Annotations for Participant مشارك: Abdelaziz

I learned because my parents are Deaf.

I developed my signing from my parents and then I enrolled in the Al-Amal school for the Deaf and kept learning their from my peers.

Hey, Tell him that the association here is like our mother.

Hey- So in school we just learn a little bit. After finishing school, we go to the association.

This place is where they learn. This place is the mother to all the Alexandrian Deaf community. Does he understand?

The association is old-- it's been here since 1957.

Hey, so there's a Deaf school and there's a Hard of Hearing school and in the end they both come here to the Association.

In school here there is no proper upbringing at all-- zero at all.

I was motivated to learn myself.

Regarding learning, my parents taught me a little bit, and I add a bit to that bit myself.

That's all.

Also, I'm strong in mathematics.

Hey- OK, so first ask me the question and I'll answer. Ask me and I'll answer.

Hey look at him.

Hey look at him. He'll ask me and I'll answer. He'll ask me and I'll answer.

My name-- in Arabic or English?

There in America will they understand though? Oh you're going to change [translate] it, ok.

Yes, ok I consent. Let's get started.

I'm Abdelaziz. This my name sign.

His turn.

In IS: I'm thirty-nine years old.

In LIM: thirty-nine, 39.

I was born in 1984.

Ok, ok.

Ok, ok. [In LIM]: 1984.

Well, Alexandria. I was born in Alexandria and my father is from a rural area called Mansoura. I've always been in Alexandria-- my life and activities are all here.

Now it's his turn.

I was just born Deaf. I grew up Deaf just since birth.

I had a fever [to become Deaf].

I'll talk. Years ago, my mother and my father had me and I was born Deaf. Then one month I got a high fever.

So I was checked into the hospital and then well that was it, I've always had no hearing.

My mother and father didn't know each other, and they gave birth to three deaf kids.

Never.

I have deaf relatives one one side and deaf relatives on my mother's side, but the two families had never met before.