In the first week of class I was over whelmed because of many different parts of signs and how complicated the sentence structure was to learn because it was different than English. What I mostly expected the class to be was a lot of memorizing of signs. Although, that was a small part of the class there were many other things that I would have to learn in order to fully understand and communicate in ASL. The first part of understanding ASL was its history. Like any other language ASL had a

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