I had the opportunity to work with some signers and some interpreters at the Supreme Sign Institute (SSI). This is a new and private Sign Language school in Accra. Dr. Oppong asked me to teach. The training was to last two-weeks, but ended up only going for one-week. I taught on Monday and Friday. We covered linguistics of signed language, Deaf culture and Deaf Community, translation, and Demand Control Schema. These students were lovely and so hungry for information! Working with them and talking about interpretation work was a pleasure and a delight. My hope for this institute is that a partnership may be fostered between the the Deaf Community and the Executive Director. He has passion and a vision. What might move this venture forward is a Deaf person with the same passion and vision.

I had a wonderful day on Wednesday when Timothy Mac-Hadjah came to Winneba to meet with me about his research on number marking in Ghanaian Sign Language. What is it about linguists? They feel like family to me, especially one who is looking at morphological minutiae in a signed language.

I asked him if he would present to interested parties and he agreed to do so. I set up a presentation for him at 2:00. Due to traffic in Kasoa, Tim ran a little late. The 400-level students were in a lecture, so they started arriving about 2:30. There were about six Deaf students and 5 hearing students. They ranged from 100-level to graduate students. Tim signed his presentation. He and his research were well-received. We had a lively discussion after the presentation with lots of questions about the data, the results, and research, in general.

Tim and I went to my house where we talked about his data and the work he has done to date on his thesis. We did not have enough time, but when is there ever enough time to talk about linguistic minutiae?

I am ever so grateful to him for sharing his work with me. I look forward to seeing him publish and present his work. Ghanaian Sign Language is being researched and documented. That is good news!