The Winners of the Essay Competition for Students
Published 2 February 2022 | By surdocecitate.ro
It has been a real pleasure for us to enter the universe created by the students who took part to the essay competition ”What would a day in my life look like if I were a person with deafblindness?”. Each of the four winners responded to the challenge we launched last year, on December 3 – The International Day of People with Disabilities – and they wrote down their thoughts, emotions, states, showing empathy and imagination.
On behalf of the jury consisting of Etelka Czondi, Director of Sense International Romania; Ramona Antonie, Programmes Manager Sense International Romania; Viorel Micu, member on the Board of Directors Sense International Romania; Univ. Lect. PhD Ioana Tufar, Special Education Department, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Babeș Bolyai University Cluj Napoca and Emina Socolescu, person with deafblindness, we congratulate all and wish them success.
Here are the winners:
1st Prize: Iulia Mikloș
First year student at Babes Bolyai University, Special Education Department at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences.
The prize consists of the Vasile Adamescu Scholarship to attend the Initiation Course in the field of Deafblindness, organized by Sense International Romania between February 28 – April 15 2022, a pack of 3 books about deafblindness, a T-shirt with the organisation logo.
Excerpt from Iulia’s essay:
“What would a day in my life look like if I were a person with deafblindness? My imagination was not enough to be able to answer this question. Thus, I took the path of discovery. One Saturday morning, while at home, I took a pair of headphones that my dad was using to maw the lawn, a sleep mask from my mum’s bedside table, and I took off. I tried to fulfil the tasks of the day.
[..] After this day, I would encourage everyone to try this; if not for a whole day, at least to try a seemingly common task, like brushing the teeth in the morning. More than anything, it is about becoming aware.”
2nd Prize: Georgiana Neacșu
First year student at Babes Bolyai University, Special Education Department at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences.
The prize consists of the Vasile Adamescu’s Autobiography in 3 volumes, a pack of 3 books about deafblindness, a T-shirt with the organisation logo.
Excerpt from Georgiana’s essay:
“For a single day, I could have my own world, my true world. Even so, without colour. Yes, no problem with that. I will build it the way I think the world should look like, an ”outside” where I feel that I belong somewhere. I will use lively colours that I can tough every time, or at least... for one day.”
3rd Prize: Raluca Bradea
Third year student at Babes Bolyai University, Special Education Department at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences.
The prize consists of a pack of 3 books about deafblindness, a T-shirt with the organisation logo.
Excerpt from Raluca’s essay:
”I stepped into a new life. A life where the light is dimmer and a child’s scream seems like a whisper. A life where time is shorter that I thought, because time requires time. Time to move forward, to do one thing or another, it all takes time. Everything lived by me like in slow motion, in this world of deafblindness.
[..] I may be different, but I am still a being capable of a lot and gifted with many things, only time remains unchanged and it’s way of passing in my life.”
Special mention: Salomea Bercea
First year student at Babes Bolyai University, Special Education Department at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences.
The prize consists of a pack of a book about deafblindness, a T-shirt with the organisation logo.
Excerpt from Raluca’s essay:
“It is late at night. The lights that used to dimly flicker in the windows begin to slowly fade away. The sounds, so vibrantly colouring the air, are now melting in a ceremonious silence, and the only voices that pierce through are the wind uproars. And thus, laying down with my eyes looking up the cold ceiling, a thought comes to my mind: «And wat if this was the reality of my life? What if this darkness casted a shade on my world and this silence overwhelmed me evermore? What if I were to live with deafblindness?»”