[nabs-l] my introduction
sami osborne
ligne14 at verizon.net
Thu Jan 23 23:09:14 UTC 2014
Hi again.
First of all thank you to all for making me feel welcome on this
list! :were
Now I'll try to answer to everyone who asked me questions.
Ashley, I can't really compare piano lessons at a music school
for the blind with having them with a regular teacher, I think it
adepends on the teacher.
Before I started coming to that school, I actually did take piano
lessons with a teacher in Nyack when I was 4, and I quit that.
I don't remember why, because I was so young back then, but now
that I think about it, it is probably because the teacher focused
more on my disability then myself as a person, since for example
I actually do remember that we didn't learn any actual pieces, we
spent more time on the layout of the piano.
My teacher at the music school, however, isn't like that at all.
I feel that she really feels toward me as a person, rather than a
"blind" person.
Lilli, France is very nice.
All the people there are very nice, and the food is delicious,
and the citys are beautiful.
Would you like to go there some day?
Ben, thank you very much for your offer! Yes, I do have Skype.
To make sure that nobody here who I don't know yet just adds me
to their Skype contacts, I also won't post my Skype name here
either. I will email you personally off this list and I'll give
you my Skype name so you can add me. Wow, I can't believe that
you know Italian and Portugese! I also want to learn those, since
I already know 2 of the romance languages (French and Spanish).
Helga, it's same for you, if you have Skype you can email me your
skype name. Is Peru nice? I would like to go to a
Spanish-speaking country some day so I can practice my Spanish.
I also would like to learn German like you, since I know English,
and I personally think that your great-grandfather made the right
decision to imigrate here to the Kmericas, since Hitler and those
Germans discriminated against the Jews.
Yes, looking at your messages, I think that being on this list
will be lot of fun!
Thanks.
Sami.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben J Bloomgren <ben.j.bloomgren at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:48:55 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] my introduction
Hello Sami,
Since I'm no longer a student for the moment, I've become quite a
lurker on this list; however, your intro woke me up and peaked my
interest. My name is Ben Bloomgren, and I'm from Scottsdale,
Arizona. By the way, it was 75ºF today here in Phoenix! Anyway,
I'm a language freak like you, and you have three of my
four/five, depending on if you count English. I also speak
Portuguese and Italian. I'm an interpreter myself, and I'd love
to work with you on those things. If you're on Skype, I'd love
to contact you. Being that you're a minor, I'm not going to put
my Skype name out here. Otherwise, however, c'est un plaisir de
te connaître. It's a pleasure to meet you!
Ben J. Bloomgren
Manager
CLG Productions
Http://www.clgproductions.com
704-256-0067
Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Eastern accept holidays.
On Jan 22, 2014, at 20:33, Lillie Pennington
<lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
Hi Sami and welcome to the list. I really liked your intro.
Wow, three languages. How is it like in France compared to
America?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:27 PM, "Ashley Bramlett"
<bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
Sami,
Welcome! I'd like to hear about your experiences at the school
for the blind. I rarely meet people from schools for the blind.
Do you study all subjects the regular ed kids do?
What is it like going to a blind music class? I did not do
that, but I did take piano lessons privately.
I'm Ashley and I am a graduate of marymount university and I
obtained a certificate too at our community college. I have a
liberal arts degree in communication and psychology and a
certificate in writing. I am now hoping to obtain at least a
part time job and am contemplating attending a center for the
blind to learn more skills.
In free time, I enjoy listening to the radio, surfing the
internet, chatting with friends, exercising, playing cards, and
reading.
Take care.
Ashley
-----Original Message----- From: sami osborne
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:15 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] my introduction
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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