[nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

Wed Jun 25 13:06:51 UTC 2014

Hi, Helga, Hope you're doing well! RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helga Schreiber via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
To: "Carol Hummel" <angelic.sweetpea90 at gmail.com>; "National Association of 
Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Introducing Myself:


> Hey!! Carol!!, this is Helga! What's up? Welcome to the list!! Hope you 
> like it!! By the way, sorry I haven't contacted you by skype yet! I have 
> been very busy with college and activities! However, I'm going to contact 
> you tomorrow by skype ok? In fact, feel free to call me to my cell phone 
> if you would like to talk to me!! My cell phone is located below in my 
> email signature!! Hope to hear from you soon!! Thanks and God bless!! :)
>
> Helga Schreiber
>
> Fundraiser Coordinator for Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Delta Iota chapter
>
> Member of National Federation of the Blind and Florida Association of 
> Blind Students
> And member   of The International Networkers Team (INT)
>
>
> Phone: (561) 706-5950     Email: helga.schreiber26 at gmail.com
>
> "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that 
> whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 24, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Carol Hummel via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thank You all for the warm welcome. I appreciate it. I am pretty sure
>> some of you are curious about what my plans are after high school. I
>> plan on taking some online Bible Courses. I also plan on going to
>> school and learning about music. I was happy to share with you about
>> my testimony. If yall would like to message me on Skype. yall can feel
>> free to but I am letting you all know that I do have a bad internet
>> connection. So I can't talk during the day. here is my Skype name:
>> southern.bell90
>> Carol Ann Weeks
>>
>>> On 6/24/14, Matthew Dierckens via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Welcome aboard. :)
>>> Matthew Dierckens
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>>> On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:13 PM, sami osborne via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Carrol,
>>>>
>>>> Nice intro and welcome to the list!
>>>>
>>>> I hope that you will like and feel comfortable with our discussions 
>>>> here
>>>> after your rather tragic teenage life.  This is what this sort of
>>>> community is for.  We are all here to discuss our feelings and emotions
>>>> among our friends and make one another feel better.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry to here that you suffered a car accident that made you loose
>>>> your vision.
>>>> That must have been tough for you and your family to adjust to.
>>>>
>>>> How do you feel now about yourself after about 8 years of being blind?
>>>>
>>>> To introduce myself to you, I am currently 16 and in high school as 
>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope to go to college and become a language interpreter or teacher. 
>>>> (I
>>>> speak 3 languages: English, French and Spanish).  My mom is French, and 
>>>> I
>>>> used to take Spanish at school.
>>>>
>>>> Don't know if you're interested in languages just wanted to point this 
>>>> out
>>>> since you are a new member and you probably want to know about the rest 
>>>> of
>>>> us here on list.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any hopes for your future after you graduate from High
>>>> school?
>>>>
>>>> Welcome again to the list, and hope you enjoy!
>>>>
>>>> Yours,
>>>>
>>>> Sami.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Carol Hummel via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>>> Date sent: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:45:55 -0400
>>>> Subject: [nabs-l] Introducing Myself:
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> For God so loved the world, that he gave his ever begotten Son, that
>>>> whosoever, believeth in him shall not perish, but have ever lasting
>>>> Life.  John 3:16 Carol Ann Hummel
>>>> Hi, My name is Carol Ann Weeks.  I am 24 years old.  I am totally blind
>>>> but I haven't been that way all my life.  I was in a bad car accident
>>>> when I was 7 years old on December 7th 1997.  According to my family
>>>> the vehicle rolled on my head five to six times.  I died on them six
>>>> times had a heart attack and a stroke.  The whole left side of my face
>>>> was broken and the optic nerve in my left eye was cut away.  I survived
>>>> somehow and I was visually impaired until I was sixteen.  While sitting
>>>> in my Biology class one day I lost my sight completely and I thought
>>>> it was just because my teacher wouldn't let me go get my medicine for
>>>> my eye that was in August of 2006.  My mom came to the school to take
>>>> me to the doctor cause she was like oh no she can't be losing her
>>>> sight.  I cried the entire time.  My eye doctor sent me to another
>>>> doctor in Dothan Alabama and he performed two cornia transplants the
>>>> first in September of 2006 and the second in October of 2006 but they
>>>> both rejected that is when we all discovered that I hadn't just lost
>>>> my sight by normal means I had had a second stroke due to no feeling
>>>> near the right eye.  I was out of school for several months after I
>>>> lost my sight it took my will away.  I thought there was no use cause
>>>> see I would read up to two or three romance novels a day and now I
>>>> couldn't so I was miserable.  My parents had no idea what to do with
>>>> me.  I soon went back to school in FSDB , I wasn't there for long
>>>> though I couldn't with stand the distance.  I was sixteen going on
>>>> seventeen and scared because I wasn't able to see anything.  When I got
>>>> out of FSDB my parents put me back in public school at Taylor County
>>>> High School.  That is some place I new really well I grew up there from
>>>> when I was T13 years old.  It was nice to be back home around my
>>>> friends and people I knew.  Then in December of 2008 we moved to South
>>>> Carolina.  That is where I currently live.  I attended Senica High
>>>> School.  I was in and out of the hospital in 2009 the year I graduated
>>>> but I got a District Certificate and I am currently working on my High
>>>> School Diploma through Hadley.  I believe it is all God that has gotten
>>>> me this far and I hope and pray he can get me much farther in life.  I
>>>> have never been to a NFB convention but I am trying to figure out away
>>>> to be able to attend next years.
>>>> Fill free to contact me by email: angelic.sweetpea90 at gmail.com
>>>> Skype: southern.bell90
>>>> or Facebook: angelic.sweetpea90 at gmail.com
>>>> thanks II hope to hear from yall soon.
>>>> God Bless,
>>>> Carol Ann Weeks
>>>>
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>> -- 
>> For God so loved the world, that he gave his ever begotten Son, that
>> whosoever, believeth in him shall not perish, but have ever lasting
>> Life. John 3:16 Carol Ann Hummel
>>
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