NFB Youth Slam!

1. I love to read.
2. I like Brussels sprouts.
3. I try to be optimistic.
4. When the seventh Harry Potter book came out, I read the whole book in a week and got a blister on my finger.
5. Sports put me to sleep.
6. I have two younger siblings.
7. My parents got divorced when I was seven.
8. I try not to judge people by my first impressions of them.
9. I would like to travel to every continent in my lifetime.
10. I love the color green because even though I can’t see it I associate it with the smell of evergreen trees.
11. My favorite subject in school is English.
12. I try to associate colors with smells or things that I can smell, hear, or touch.
13. The subject I hate is math.
14. One of the things I like about traveling is meeting new people.
15. I have a bad sense of direction.
16. When I am in unfamiliar areas I get lost often and ask for directions.
17. My favorite holiday is Christmas.
18. In middle school I participated in Marching Band.
19. I began using a cane when I was three.
20. My middle name, Britt, is my mom’s maiden name.
21. I want to teach English but I can’t spell.
22. I don’t like tomatoes, but I love ketchup.
23. I love classical music.
24. I want to do something that really matters with my life.
25. I used to be in Chorus before I transferred schools.

1. I have glaucoma.
2. I was born in Abu Dhabi.
3. I am black and Egyptian.
4. I love swimming and am training to be a life guard.
5. I wrestle folk style and Greco-Roman.
6. I love music and can play the drumset and bass.
7. I did a backflip on my bike and surprisingly didn’t break my neck.
8. I lived in DC.
9. I now live in Atlanta – GET ME OUTTA THERE!
10. I love horror movies.
11. I wanna get a boat license.
12. I tried to backflip an ATV – it didn’t go so well.
13. I have the best shot in the family.
14. I am about to get a job at Dixieland.
15. I am very stable.
16. I work on cars all the time.
17. I worked on my friend’s car for drag racing and we came in first place.
18. I know how to ride a motorcycle.
19. I once rode a banana boat.
20. I am the best Gears of War player ever.
21. I hate musicals.
22. I have horrible allergies.
23. I can play the saxophone.
24. I love slamball.
25. I enjoy deep sea fishing even though I nearly lost my finger.

1: I was born in Acapulco, a famous tourist attraction in Mexico.
2: I don’t think I have a least favorite food but I’m very picky, and there are millions of things I do not like.
3: I’m not much of a sweets eater, preferring the salty food groups in my time of snack food needs.
4: I don’t think I have a favorite song or type of music, as I listen to anything that has a catching melody and rhythm.
5: I tend to gravitate toward people that are loud and outgoing, believing myself to be more of a mixture between introvert and extrovert.
6: small things make me cry, while earth-shattering problems make me apathetic.
7: I don’t often show negative emotions.
8: I’m very self-conscious.
9: My very best friend in the world was who inspired me to want to pursue a career in the Cultural Anthropology field.
10: My greatest dream is also my greatest obstacle to overcome: to travel.
11: I do not fear death.
12: I hate my smile.
13: One of the reasons I like having long hair is that I can hide behind it whenever my self-consciousness overwhelms me.
14: I have no middle name; a fact that made me angry when I was younger, as I had no trade when kids would secretly tell them to each other.
15: The only thing I hate about being blind is that I can’t walk with my cane and eat a box of fries at the same time.
16: When I was a trumpet player in the marching band, I hated it; not because I was blind, but because, as an actual individual, I wasn’t very good at it.
17: My one pet peeve is racial prejudice, as in, making fun of someone because they “sound” a certain race.
18: My favorite subjects in high school were always English-Lit and French.
19: Writing is like a substitute for comfort eating.
20: I never tell one single person all of my secrets.

21: I have often been described as flowing and charismatic, but people’s first impressions of me are usually negative.
22: My favorite color changes every year.
23: It takes a lot to make me truly mad.
24: I don’t think I could ever be a mother because I’m not firm or strict enough.
25: I often see and admit my problems but don’t ever really know where to go from there to fix them.

1. I write, make, and produce my own music.
2. I lost my vision playing football.
3. I walked into the girls’ bathroom today trying to get outside.
4. I’m tall.
5. I meet a lot of people, but I don’t talk much.
6. I laugh a lot.
7. I give really great advice.
8. My shoes always match my outfits.
9. My favorite color is blue, but I hate the color sky blue.
10. I play video games.
11. I can’t stand being hot.
12. I play basketball by using a beeper on the goal.
13. I love comedy.
14. I love being in the spotlight.
15. I write poetry about myself and things surrounding me.
16. I planned to be president of NFB.
17. I love challenges.
18. This is my second youth slam.
19. I like to beat box.
20. I am the president of Maryland Association of Blind Students.
21. I am not a computer whiz.
22. I like interviewing people.
23. I hope to have my own fashion line.
24. My rap name is Boss Dogg.
25. I plan to be successful in life no matter what.

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.