1. I was originally born in the country of Hungary, and thus have traveled to nations such as Slovakia, Austria, Poland, and Ukraine.
2. I have a twin sister who is 2 minutes older than I am – but is not visually impaired.
3. When I was 7, I chased my dog and fell down a set of basement stairs. My head got stitched. Two weeks later, the same incident occurred again – but this time, the dent in my skull became permanent.
4. I had my hernia removed around age 3 because I kept jumping back and forth from and to my sister’s crib.
5. I dislike Chinese food, primarily because of what happened the first time I tried eating it – a very upset stomach, for a week.
6. I speak three languages: Hungarian, English, and Spanish.
7. My favorite school subjects are English and History.
8. My beliefs contradict the paradigm, and I have researched philosophical topics such as the New world order, 2012, UFOs, Indigo Children, Auras, past lives, and the Paranormal at least for the past 5 years.
9. My favorite food is meringue cookies.
10. In a meatball stuffing contest, I could stuff 6 meatballs in my mouth (without chewing) and was about to get the 7th in before I couldn’t handle it.
11. The highest distance I have climbed ever on a rockwall is 60 feet – to the top.
12. When I was smaller, I once ate some grass – and dislike vegetables because of it, since they taste just like grass. I usually can only eat onions, lettuce, cucumbers and peas.
13. I am deathly afraid of skeletons (when I say deathly I mean it), walking trees, and avalanches. Therefore, I have a hard time showering in unfamiliar places since my mind keeps making me feel like skeletons are somewhere in the shower.
14. I learned the computer programming language Pascal when I was 8 from my father and still remember parts of it.
15. Currently, I can program moderately in Python, Java, and to a light level, C++.
16. For three years straight, I was part of my school’s robotics team as the programmer.
17. In 2005, I tested Windows longhorn (now Vista) and began writing reviews of it on eurpod.com . Today, I have tested at least 13 pre-release Windows 7 versions and my reviews are there to inform the blind AND sighted on how the product functions.
18. I translated the free screen reader, NVDA, into Hungarian. Although I no longer update the translations, my friends from Hungary still maintain the project. NVDA has now become a very popular screen reading choice in that nation for the blind, since it is free and open source.
19. I have played in a talent show with my sister and her friends. I was on bass guitar, playing Animal I have Become by Three Day’s Grace.
20. I am a licensed Ham operator. I passed the FCC Amateur radio Technician class exam in 2005.
21. Perhaps my favorite hobby is doing my online talkshow, The World’s Perspectives show. To date, I have had over 30 shows, and they are all archived.
22. The numbers 22, 33, and 44 always seem to be everywhere in my life – I wonder why? 22 grams of fat, 33.3 kbps download speeds, it’s 11:22, my Youth Slam registration number is 44…
23. I love peanut butter, mainly MNMs or icecream!
24. I have an interest in timetravel and quantum physics.
25. Recently, I hiked the Grand Canyon 2 weeks with an organization known as Global Explorers. There, I also met Erik Weihenmayer: the blind mountain climber who summeted MT. Everest.