[blindkid] Jordan Is In!!

[Carrie Gilmer]

Bonnie,
Jordan started freshman Spanish his eight grade year (they offered the full
high school Spanish I at his middle school). This year he took Spanish V,
and it was an AP course. He is not capable of fully translating yet, but he
loves Spanish and wants to become fluent. He also is interested in learning
French now too. There are no Spanish speakers in our family, I had some high
school and remember enough to talk with him about simple things, like what
do you want to drink, is your home work done, clean the bathroom now!, where
is the...etc. and did so to provide him some practice. He tries himself to
find speakers to talk with, and when he finds someone some where he goes for
it--otherwise he learned a lot this year by listening to the BBC Spanish
news and Spanish television and soap operas. I know some immigrants who
learned a lot of English by watching T.V., smile.
He just had a great compliment, a federationist who grew up in a Spanish
speaking home told Jordan, Jordan's spanish was more correct and proper than
what he had from growing up. That was cool to hear.

 
 
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 Bonnie Lucas
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:15 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Jordan Is In!!

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)'" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
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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