[blindkid] Jordan Is In!!

[Andy & Sally Thomas]

Hey Carrie,

I have a question for Jordon.  David wants to play the trombone in band--we 
even HAVE a nice trombone so that is a plus.  Yesterday I was told that 
blind kids should consider playing instruments that can be played with one 
hand so they can read music and play at the same time.  This is important 
for competitions, I'm told.  It appears that Jordon has been successful 
enough with the trombone that he wants to continue playing into adulthood. 
Does he have any regrets about not playing a one handed instrument?

Sally Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carrie Gilmer" <carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)'" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Jordan Is In!!


> Hey Kassondra, thanks! He is currently most interested in Constitutional
> Law. He just finished his first course focused on Politics and Law and the
> teacher told him the last day that in her 35 years he was the most
> passionate student about the subject she had ever had. He got a very easy
> "A" in it. He has been bouncing around--he was planning on becoming a
> lawyer-scientist-chemist-who is a Spanish translator who teaches band and
> plays the trombone on the side-smile. I told him to decide by looking in 
> his
> heart for the passion and what set him on fire the most.
>
> Now it looks like he has narrowed it to here come de judge (who can also
> translate Spanish, understand scientific data and environmental law, stand
> up for human rights, plays trombone for stress relief, and reinstates the
> white British wigs to the court)!
>
> We shall see, smile.
>
> It is so hard to believe this is the last half of his last year...time 
> just
> flies. It seems like just so short ago that we sat on the picnic table
> outside BLIND, Inc. in the summer and you and Shawn were not even married
> yet and Jordan was just 8 years old!
>
>
>
> Carrie Gilmer, President
> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
> A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
> NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
> Home Phone: 763-784-8590
> carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
> www.nfb.org/nopbc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Kasondra Payne
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:33 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)'
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Jordan Is In!!
>
> Carrie,
>
> Congratulations, from my family to yours!  I am glad he got in.  What will
> he study?
>
> Kasondra Payne
>
>
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