Status Updates From The Silence Between Us

Maya is a deaf student that just moved to a new city in Colorado. She used to go to a school with people that were deaf or hard of hearing. Where she moved to they don't have a school for the deaf. Therefore she has to go to a public school. Maya is embarrassed because she has to have a interpreter follow her around to her classes and everywhere she goes.

I feel same thing to her because " I hadn't set foot inside a hearing school in almost five years"(Gervais 9), she was nerove about it.

Maya is deaf and she just moved to a normal school In Colorado, from a deaf school in New Jersey. She just met her new interpreter named Kathleen. She is a little nervous and her mom is trying to be there and support her, but she is still having a hard time.

I can understand why Maya is nervous to go to a hearing school again, and why she doesn't really want Nina showing her around all the time. Nina "talks a lot" (Gervais 18), and seems to be annoying Maya with all of her enthusiasm.

This book is so good so far. I like how the text is what maya is thinking in her head and i like that it shows what the mom is signing. I wonder if her mom is going to school with her because it says: "Dr. Rivera was standing behind his desk when the three of us entered his office" (Gervais 13).

I felt same as her when I was go to hearing school first time. " I hadn't set foot inside a hearing school in almost 5 years."(Gervais 1). She very neruos about go to hearing good and hope she not embreess to them.

As I started one thing I really liked was how they showed the signing such as "she signed, GOOD MORNING" (Gervais 12). she also seems to really dislike her new school especially since its a hearing school.

There is an interesting dynamic with the deaf main character and the hearing people around her. Maya describes how others treat her when they discover that she's deaf, stating, "I wasn't surprised to see the look that came over Beau's face as he watched Kathleen sign to me" (Gervais 21). On the topic of meeting new people, she has met Kathleen, Nina, and Beau. They seem nice, but she's skeptical, assuming it's pity.

In my book the silence between us Maya does not want to go to a "hearing school" she is very scared and worried people will think that she is weird. She shares to her mom many times that "Wait not ready help me" showing that she doesn't even want to step foot into her new school. I wonder how people will treat her when they arrive to school and have class with her.

whats with the weird repulsion towards CIs??