Meet my host and housemate! Tashi Bradford Nataluti is the linguist advisor to the Cambodian Sign Language dictionary project of the Deaf Development Program. She has had this role for the Vietnamese project as well, having spent four months two summers ago in Bien Hoa.

In Washington DC we shared a wonderful big apartment in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. Every time she went abroad or home to her parents during her Phd studies, I would fly in from Honolulu and take her place. It was a wonderful arrangement, although it didn't give us much time to get to know each other since we only saw each other as one was leaving or coming.

It's wonderful to get reacquainted with her and to work "together" at Deaf Development. We seem to come and go in much the same fashion as our DC housemating. I come to work after she arrives, usually about the time when she's leaving for meetings or lunch. She leaves in the middle of the CSL class I'm taking. More than that we only see each other over the dinner table.