[blindkid] Jordan Is In!!

[Bonnie Lucas]

Carrie, Is Jordan's Spanish learned from school or are there Spanish 
speakers in your family? How did he learn it well enough to translate?
Bonnie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carrie Gilmer" <carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Jordan Is In!!


> Hey Kassondra, thanks! He is currently most interested in Constitutional
> Law. He just finished his first course focused on Politics and Law and the
> teacher told him the last day that in her 35 years he was the most
> passionate student about the subject she had ever had. He got a very easy
> "A" in it. He has been bouncing around--he was planning on becoming a
> lawyer-scientist-chemist-who is a Spanish translator who teaches band and
> plays the trombone on the side-smile. I told him to decide by looking in 
> his
> heart for the passion and what set him on fire the most.
>
> Now it looks like he has narrowed it to here come de judge (who can also
> translate Spanish, understand scientific data and environmental law, stand
> up for human rights, plays trombone for stress relief, and reinstates the
> white British wigs to the court)!
>
> We shall see, smile.
>
> It is so hard to believe this is the last half of his last year...time 
> just
> flies. It seems like just so short ago that we sat on the picnic table
> outside BLIND, Inc. in the summer and you and Shawn were not even married
> yet and Jordan was just 8 years old!
>
>
>
> Carrie Gilmer, President
> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
> A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
> NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
> Home Phone: 763-784-8590
> carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
> www.nfb.org/nopbc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Kasondra Payne
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:33 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)'
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Jordan Is In!!
>
> Carrie,
>
> Congratulations, from my family to yours!  I am glad he got in.  What will
> he study?
>
> Kasondra Payne
>
>
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