[nabs-l] my introduction

[ryan bishop]

Hi Sami,
Welcome to NABS and the NABS List!
Ryan

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-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Darian
Sent: 22 January 2014 17:38
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my introduction

Hello Sami,

Thank you for the wonderful introduction and welcome to list!

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> On Jan 22, 2014, at 4:15 PM, sami osborne <ligne14 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I just registered to this list a few hours ago and this is my first post
here so let me introduce myself so you guys can know me better.
> My name is Sami Osborne.  Just to clarify: Sami is spelled S, A, M, I.
I'm just clarifying that because I know that unless you edit the
pronunciation, those screen readers always pronounce my name wrong...
> I am 16, and I am totally blind since birth.
> I live in the state of New York, in a town called Nyack.  It is directly
to the north of New York City, and it's nice.  I've been living there as
long as I can remember.
> I don't want to brag, but I speak 3 languages! I speak english of course,
and also French and Spanish.  I know French because my mother was born in
France and we go there every summer.  Not my dad, though, he's American.
But he does know French because he studied it in school.  That is of course
handy because then he can talk to my family in France, since the majority of
they don't speak English.
> I know spanish because I used to study it for school, for, you're not
going to believe this, 9 and a half years! I don't study it anymore because
last year I took an exam that would determine if I would continue with
spanish or if I was finished, and I passed it.
> When I grow up, I would either like to be a language interpreter or a
French or Spanish teacher at a school.  I actually am practicing those jobs
at school, because I now have 2 jobs involving languages.  One of them is
that I help the spanish teacher translate documents such as the school's
news-letter into Spanish for hispanic parents who don't speak English.  My
other job is that I teach one of my other teachers French and she teaches me
how to be a good teacher.
> I attend a school for the blind in New York City, which is about 45
minutes away from my house.  The name of the school is the New York
Institute for Special Education.  I have been attending that school since I
was 12 and am enjoying it very much.
> During my free time, I like to listen to the radio, go swimming, biking,
going on the computer, and playing the piano.
> I go to a music school for the blind in Manhatan every Saturday for my 
> piano lessons.  I also enjoy that school alot, and I think that my teacher
is very nicedd I am also a big tech guy...  I own numerous types of
technology at home, including a Windows computer with Jaws, a BrailleNote,
(which I am using right now to right this post), a Victor Reader Stream, and
the new Ipad Air, which I got last Christmas.
> By the way,   I hope you all enjoyed reading my introduction, and am
excited to be part of this list.
> I hope discussing on this list will be fun and interesting.
> Sincerely,
> 
> Sami.
> 
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