User:Urness.sam

User:Urness.sam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents [hide] 1 Sam Urness 2 My Life With cerebral palsy 3 Transition Plus 4 Transition Plus, second year 5 My PCA

[edit] Sam Urness My name is Sam Urness. I am a 20-year old male living in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. I currently go to Transition Plus, in Eden Prairie. I enjoy working on the computer, going to work at Shalom Home, and looking stuff up here, on Wikipedia. I also enjoy watching DVDs and listening to music on my iPod nano. I believe that President George W. Bush should have either been impeached or never run for a second term. He is the worst American President in the history of this country! I believe that we should have a competent president who doesn't engage in a vendetta for their father just for the heck of it! That's immoral and wrong. George W. Bush should never have been elected President of the United States! Al Gore should have become President! He would have taken a stronger lead on climate change and global warming, I'm sure of it!

My favorite movies are: Tin Man (miniseries) & The Shawshank Redemption (movie). My favorite TV shows are: CSI & Modern Marvels. My favorite book right now is: Dog.

Other Stuff: I have a brother named Zach, who lives in Grant's Pass, Oregon. I also have a second cousin named Lydia, who lives in Salem, Oregon. I hope to see both people when we go visit my brother this summer!!

I have a Border Terrier named Monty, who doesn't get along with the two neighbor dogs, Tilly and Otto. My grandma used to have a West Highland White Terrier, but can't have a dog anymore at her current residence.

[edit] My Life With cerebral palsy I have lived with cerebral palsy for my whole life. It never really bothered me until junior high. When puberty hit, I would break down a lot over the smallest things. For a time, I wanted to commit suicide, but thankfully never did. I had a teacher named Mrs. Mignone, who was very hard to impress. I was terrible at math, and couldn't do it in my head. That's what she made me do. There were no calculators allowed in her math class! I tried to sneak one into class once, but as soon as I took it out, she swiped it from me, giving me a lecture on how most people won't have a calculator when they go shopping, and how I needed to learn to do math in my head. I couldn't do that very well, and I soon found out why. In my sophomore year, I was diagnosed with a non-verbal learning disability (NVLD). I didn't accept that I had an NVLD until about a half a year later, but now I have learned to accept that I have it. I learned to deal with Mrs. Mignone, and eventually grew to respect her. She told me that she was going to cry when I graduated from St. Louis Park High School. I never found out if she ever did or not.

[edit] Transition Plus When I graduated, I was accidentally given my high school diploma. I was told that I would be allowed to keep it for the summer, but would need to return it on my first day of Transition Plus. I forgot to bring it, and kept delaying its return. My parents later found out why. I was proud of it, and wanted to keep it, but knew that I couldn't do that. I felt that I was unable (or maybe even unwilling) to return it myself. I asked my parents to return it for me. They agreed, and hid it from me, knowing that I might try to get it back from them. I only tried this once, but gave up, knowing I couldn't go to Transition Plus without its return. When my parents and I came in for an IEP review, they gave it to my new IEP manager. My first year, I was given a job coach that I would have for my whole time there. I was assigned to work at Eisenhower Community Center. I delivered mail and shredded confidential material. I really enjoyed that job, but I bought too much at Wetlands Cafe which was in the building. My parents soon became concerned, and contacted my job coach, and she asked me to stop buying so much unhealthy food. I eventually did stop, and everything was good for the rest of the year. When I went to the Transition Plus graduation ceremony, I noticed that the leather covers that I had when I left the St. Louis Park High School weren't there, and Lynn told me that they had been returned to the respective high schools. I was disappointed, and wondered if I could have it when I graduated. She told me to ask St. Louis Park High School about that. I'm very glad that I don't go to school there anymore, but also miss the building itself. I heard that Mr. Laney, a principal that I liked, got switched to another school. I sure hope he likes it there. Every summer since the year of my sixteenth birthday, I have been going to a Summer Work Program through Tree Trust.

[edit] Transition Plus, second year When I came back from the summer, I was assigned to work at Sunrise Senior Living. I went there, liked it for a while, but eventually didn't like it. It was too repetitive, and I wasn't allowed to talk to the residents. I didn't deliver mail like I did at Shalom Home. I didn't deliver mail at Sunrise, but just set and cleared the dining room table five days a week. I didn't enjoy it at all, because a lot of times, there would be nasty food or liquid medicine spilled on the tables or chairs. That was disgusting, having to clean that up! After a trimester there, I switched to working at Shalom Home, where I delivered mail, shred, and talk to the residents whose mail I delivered. I can't bring any food, though, because it's not Kosher. I don't mind that at all, though, because I get a meal ticket every day other than the two days I was there during Passover. Then, I get free food, but no French Fries those days. A co-worker of mine would have been really disappointed had he come, but he wasn't there those two days. He's back now, and glad that he was gone during Passover. I told him that he would have been really disappointed because there were no fries. He came back just recently, which I'm really happy about. He was gone for a month, and I really missed him!

[edit] My PCA This summer, my parents and I decided to get a Personal Care Attendant through Metropolitan Center for Independent Living (MCIL), where I got a PCA named Rob. He's a great guy, and I really enjoy hanging with him. He once took me to Iron Man (2008 movie), which was the best movie I've seen since Tin Man (TV miniseries)!

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Urness.sam"