--imm

heart for lifting up so many people in a shit storm

Frankly, I never even look at Bloomberg. She's just too fascinating to watch. The star of the show, for sure.

we were entranced by her enthusiasm and upbeat delivery.

And not much entrances us, usually. Delightful young lady, absolutely.

What she's doing is not a "performance" for you, but communicating Bloomberg's message to the deaf/HOH community in a language we understand.

Indeed, she is very skilled, but its the ASL that makes it beautiful. I wish this would inspire more people to learn ASL, rather than watch it like a "performance" or mock it (a la Chelsea Handler/SNL)

The year the student teams performed Michael Jackson songs, I remember thinking how unfair that was, because whichever team was giving "Thriller" was going to win!

The students are amazing; people drive from different states to attend this event-

Hint: If you don't know what ASL is, then you probably aren't fluent in it!

Edit to add: Four people posted ahead of me while I was typing out this reply - what timing!

Nice to meet you. I studied ASL years ago but not many opportunities to use or practice it in a long time.

I'd like to talk with you more sometime, maybe through a PM, if you'd like. More soon!

I used to interpret while I was in high school. I was the only one who learned ASL and the only one who could speak Spanish, so I was the one who conversed between our front store staff and the staff in back of house.

...would be at every major political and government press conference.