One thing about DC that most people don't know about is that it has a sizable deaf population. Especially those of secondary education age. DC happens to host the only university in the world for the hearing-impaired, Gallaudet U. Obviously they take hearing students as well, but they'll need to be able to sign and understand ASL to follow the classes. I suppose that might be one of the reasons why the deaf population is quite large around here compared to other major cities in the States (or even the world for that matter).

As a self-declared armchair-linguist, I can't help staring at them signing... just like I can't help eavesdropping at people speaking in languages that I have no idea about. LOL, I hope I haven't offended anyone in the trains as I stared in fascination of the sign language.

Anyway, the main idea of the post is... tonight, in Chinatown, as I was having dinner, there were two groups of deaf kids. They're either highschool seniors or college freshmen. I suddenly came to a realization that for some reason, most of the deaf people I saw in DC were goodlooking and quite stylish as well. At least the ones that I saw looked like they could have come out from an H&M or Urban Outfitters catalog. Hmm... was it just my post-yoga hungry stomach playing tricks on me or does anyone notice it as well?