Yesterday was the big day! Malachi's left ear cochlear implant activation! Here is the video I put together. We had about 23 minutes of video I had to cut down. Now it's about 7.5 minutes. I'm not sure you will be able to view this in a email. So if you are receiving it via email, go to our blog address to watch it.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
9.11
Several family and friends have been talking about where they were 10 years ago on 9.11 so I decided to share my story.
My alarm went off around 6am to get ready for school. In those days my alarm was a radio and I had it set to Z100. The talk show hosts were discussing something about the world trade centers...I had know idea what those were. I was 14 and it was the first week of high school for me. What was on my mind? A boy I liked wanted to "go out" with me and I was planning on surprising him by walking with one of my best friends to a different bus stop farther away so that I could ride his bus to school.
After I was on that bus and on our way to his bus stop I hear over the radio again that the world trade centers have been hit by an airplane. My best friend told me that they were big tall buildings in New York City. A billion questions ran through my mind. Who would do that? Why? Are there people in those buildings? What time is there?
After I was in class at school there was a TV on with the news. It was live. I literally watched the news cover the second plane hit as it happened. I didn't know what to think. Every one of my classes had a TV hooked up to the news. We didn't do any work that day, just watched the news.
When I went to seminary the Church did it's news conference and we got to watch that live as well.
I've always felt like that was the day I was introduced to a whole new world that I had no idea existed. I didn't fully realize that people hated the USA. As far as I knew it was a pretty great place live and why would anyone hate that? Part of my innocence was lost that day, but I think it was for the best. I started to understand the larger world around me.
What's kind of funny is that Brian was in the MTC on 9.11 (he's 5 years older than me). He didn't really know anything about it because they only let them watch the Church's broadcast about it. To this day every year when there are videos and pictures on TV about it, a lot of it he has never seen before.
Where were you?
My alarm went off around 6am to get ready for school. In those days my alarm was a radio and I had it set to Z100. The talk show hosts were discussing something about the world trade centers...I had know idea what those were. I was 14 and it was the first week of high school for me. What was on my mind? A boy I liked wanted to "go out" with me and I was planning on surprising him by walking with one of my best friends to a different bus stop farther away so that I could ride his bus to school.
After I was on that bus and on our way to his bus stop I hear over the radio again that the world trade centers have been hit by an airplane. My best friend told me that they were big tall buildings in New York City. A billion questions ran through my mind. Who would do that? Why? Are there people in those buildings? What time is there?
After I was in class at school there was a TV on with the news. It was live. I literally watched the news cover the second plane hit as it happened. I didn't know what to think. Every one of my classes had a TV hooked up to the news. We didn't do any work that day, just watched the news.
When I went to seminary the Church did it's news conference and we got to watch that live as well.
I've always felt like that was the day I was introduced to a whole new world that I had no idea existed. I didn't fully realize that people hated the USA. As far as I knew it was a pretty great place live and why would anyone hate that? Part of my innocence was lost that day, but I think it was for the best. I started to understand the larger world around me.
What's kind of funny is that Brian was in the MTC on 9.11 (he's 5 years older than me). He didn't really know anything about it because they only let them watch the Church's broadcast about it. To this day every year when there are videos and pictures on TV about it, a lot of it he has never seen before.
Where were you?
Monday, September 5, 2011
Adventures of Bionic Boy
I just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started up a new blog. I will continue to update this one for our family in general, but I needed a different blog to post about everything to do with Malachi's deafness/CIs etc. I wanted to have something to share our experiences so that hopefully someone else that becomes in our position will have the chance read it and feel comfort and possibly find answers. You can find our new blog and subscribe or follow it at: http://adventuresofbionicboy.blogspot.com
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