Sunday, October 30, 2011

Happy Halloween from Ben!

I'm not sure if I mentioned that Ben went to his high school Halloween dance on Friday night. Apparently a group of girls asked him to dance, so he did. Ben transferred to a regular high school in our board in September. It has a deaf/hard of hearing program where the students have some classes on a separate unit and others in the mainstream with interpreters. I just received this message from the head of the program. She sent it to all of his teachers and the principal:

"Ben was our one and only DHH student who showed up to the Halloween dance! His costume was totally awesome! The best! He's got guts! I am so very proud of him! He is one remarkable young man who is displaying his spirit to the fullest."

7 comments:

DeeAnn said...

Well? What was Ben's costume for the dance? Now I'm curious.

BLOOM - Parenting Kids With Disabilities said...

Hi DeeAnn -- He went as a musketeer --we got the costume from a costume shop that serves the theatre industry. We were looking for an armadillo -- which is what he wanted to be -- but they didn't have anything like that. So we went with the musketeer. How are you guys doing???

Talley Images said...

awesome... and he looked great!

Sherry C said...

Way to go Ben sounds like he will have great memories from that event and perhaps made a few more friends that wonderful.

Danielle Sanders said...

Aw, that's wonderful! Glad he got a chance to boogie with the ladies too :)

tekeal said...

that's SO great!! guts runs in the family... hug, tekeal

DSW said...

Oh man, I am so glad you posted something on this. I was lucky enough to watch Ben boogie hi butt off, even when he was sitting. I saw helped up by the girls to dance but didn't see the actual dancing as I had an important phone call to take. He had such a great time and man does he know tons of people at that school, from all grades. He is definetly making himself known there!!!