[Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Halinka,

Thanks for this post. Very interesting. You are a hard worker, I can 
tell, and a happy one, too!

I will pray for your mother.

Blessings,

Linda
At 01:22 PM 6/22/2013, you wrote:
>dear rhonda and all,
>It is me again.
>I decided to put here another piece of my introduction. some may 
>know it already meeting me on some other lists but it can be anyway 
>maybe interesting for someone else, smile?
>so here it is:
>My name is Halina, a soft version  Halinka and it means Brightness, 
>The shining one.
>I am totally blind, with only a little light perception. I was 
>partially sighted but when I was 15-16 my sight got worse and worse 
>and when I was 17 years old I went blind.
>
>I studied Russian and then I also did some studies which prepared me 
>for working with blind and partially sighted children.
>I am the teacher. Almost 25 years I worked as a school councelor, an 
>advicer at school for blind and partially sighted children. I tried 
>to help especially these who lost their sight not long ago. I tried 
>to help them to accept their new situation. I worked with parents of 
>blind children helping them, advicing them how they should treet 
>their blind son or daughter, what attitude they should have toward them.
>I also had some individual lessons with  an autistic blind girl who 
>was also diabetic. It was really a hard job and for any results you 
>had to wait even for ages.  I am married. Since 1986.
>My husband is also totally blind. He lost his sight when he was 12 
>years old,  from unexploded bomb. He studied mathematics at 
>Yagellonian University and computer science and now he works at the 
>university helping blind and partially sighted students working in a 
>special computer centre.
>We have 18-year-old sighted son Dominik.
>Dominik is a great teenager. He is a very good at maths, plays the 
>piano, likes reading  and he really reads many many books.
>He passed all his final exams in his high school on the highest 
>level. From october e will be studying maths .
>he also passed his exam on car licence. We are all so happy here.
>He spent two weeks on yachting on Baltic sea, and will be back at 
>home tomorrow.
>
>Although my husband uses computer for many many years I had 
>something like computer fobia. I really thought that it is not for 
>me that I will not be able to use it. But some time ago  everything changed.
>First through Matilda Ziegler Magazine I found some nice blind 
>friends in different countries and wanting to    be in touch with 
>them I couldn't all the time ask my son to read or write emails and 
>I started to learn.
>Warmly, halinka.