[humanser] New member saying hello

[JD TOWNSEND]

Greetings:

Welcome to the list.



Your nation has such a history, making us in the USA seem as babies.  It 
makes me wonder, knowing only the tiniest part of your history and nation 
how the various ethnic elements come together to form a nation.  We in the 
USA are a rich coming together of cultures, but mixed in a bowl without the 
history that your nation has  (our native peoples having been suppressed 
almost to non-existence).  Your role as a teacher of English, an outside 
tongue, must bring this cultural mixture into a clear focus.  I imagine most 
of your students speak Demonym or, perhaps, Albanian, or do most speak 
multiple languages?

As a clinical social worker I especially seek to understand the cultural 
diversity of the populations in my area.  We have such a mixture from former 
African and Greek slaves who worked sugar plantations in this area to to 
recent immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands.  These 
various populations never felt an ownership of the land, never fought each 
other for cultural or economic control over it.  Your students, I imagine 
teenagers, are the people who will, eventually, bring your nation into NATO 
and the Common Market, but most especially, form a fuller concept of the 
nation-state.

As you can see I'm a big mouth with more ideas than knowledge.  I am a 
Clinical Social Worker, blind, working in a mental health program for 
children and adolescents.  This group has helped me to feel more a part of 
the blind community and to receive help regarding the many ideas of living a 
professional life among the sighted.

There are similar groups for blind teachers and I would encourage you to 
join those groups as well.


JD Townsend, LCSW
Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth, Sol System
Helping the light dependent to see.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "adrijana prokopenko" <adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com>
To: <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 2:03 PM
Subject: [humanser] New member saying hello


> Hi to all,
>
> I just joined this group, so thought to write and introduce myself. My
> name is Adrijana and I am a 30-year old blind lady from Macedonia. I
> work as a teacher of English in a school for blind children and have
> been working there for almost 4 years. I really enjoy my work a lot,
> but in my own area I am the only English teacher with visual
> impairment, so it is at times hard to learn from others and share new
> experiences with people like myself. And since teachers also work
> closely with rehabilitation counselors and psychologists, I would like
> to think that this group would be of use to me as well. I would also
> be happy to make some new friends along the way, so if you would like
> to write me on or off list, feel free to do so.
>
> Happy holidays,
>
> Adrijana
>
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