[blindkid] Why you should go to the NFB national convention (by Lindsay, age 7)

[Carol Castellano]

I wuv it!

At 01:46 PM 6/1/2010, you wrote:
>My 7-year-old daughter, Lindsay, just finished first grade.  (Yeah!)  During
>her last week of class, her teacher sent home lots of things the class had
>been working on throughout the year.  One of their projects was "writers'
>workshop," where the students had to independently write a journal-type
>entry for 5 to 10 minutes a couple times per week.  I loved reading
>Lindsay's journal entries.  The following is Lindsay's entry for 4/30/10,
>exactly as written on her Mountbatten Brailler, spelling and grammar
>mistakes included:
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>In Jly I am going to Inefbe Canp.  I will have lots of fun.  I will right a
>book if I want to.  I might go swiming.  And I am going to stay in a hotell.
>It is going to be lots of fun.  I know I will like it a lot.  My nana and
>grandad are coming with my mom and I.  I think I will be very happy.  I
>think I will read some books.  And I will meat some new blind people.
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>I think that says it all about why we go to the NFB national convention
>every year.  If Lindsay is excited about "meat"ing new blind people,
>reading, and "right"ing, then we must be doing something right.  ("Swiming,"
>staying in a "hotell," and nana and grandad are just bonuses!)  Hope to see
>you there!
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>Laura Bostick Weber
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>Please support Lindsay in the 2010 NFB Race for Independence:
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>  <http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/lindsay.adair.2010>
>http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/lindsay.adair.2010
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Carol Castellano, President
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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