watched _survivor_ at a deaf friend's place where we all the deafies watched every christy's move. i was kinda disappointed to see christy bawling on the first night. i thought she should have known better that she was gonna face a huge communication barrier with these seven ladies. i have to admit that she did let me down, but i was just HAPPY to survive the first tribal council as the female group received an immunity from the challenge game. now, i'm hoping that she can make through the 2nd tribal voting.
afterwards, i had a nice dinner with my ex-staffs from my bouldering gym. it was thoughtful of them to provide a farewell dinner for me. we had dinner at twisted spoke and guess whom i bumped onto there? jorge from my old college! it was nice to see him and caught up all the old news about our old friends.
so it was nice to go out after being a movie freak for a while, but sadly, i've still rented two movies today and plan to watch one of 'em tonight. one's action, prolly a bloody one as one's called _our lady the assassins_ and another's a comedy from france called _taste of others_
Posted by gamma888 at February 14, 2003 12:36 AMgee, what was that? it's too bad that you felt that christy let you down because she cried. or was it just a reminder that it's happened to you before and that we're not supposed to show our feelings? i'm surprised that you felt that way but that is your own opinion. don't tell me that you've been successful at every communication barrier - cos that would be a load of bs. it's perfectly normal to feel left out at some point.. what we dont know is what goes on behind the scenes.
christy didn't go on this show to please the deaf world - she did it for her own self. i can imagine how tough it was on her because she was going to be stuck with a bunch of hearing people for 39 days and of course, the communication barrier was going to be there no matter what.
at least, be human for once.
Posted by: muck on February 14, 2003 10:20 AMwell, i guess i was being too optimistic about it. i know for sure that i wouldn't even communicate in a big hearing group. but i thought she could have done much better with her leadership and try to educate them because she said herself that she's a competitor and i really don't see her competitive spirit there (or maybe the producer isn't even showing where i would like to see?). i just wish that she could try to get close with shawna because i'm sure that she knows what's like to be a deaf as she probably knows caya. they're a year apart in our high school. still, i'm pulling for christy to come up better in the second episode!
Well remember the show is heavily edited, and they're certainly trying to make it seem sensationalistic. So it might be a very narrow (and skewered) view on what really occured there. We don't know what stuff they're NOT showing us... So I'm taking the whole show with a great big grain of salt.
afterall, it's only the first show... give everyone time to adjust ;)
Posted by: muck on February 14, 2003 01:45 PM