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Job shadowing! October 21, 2013

“Survived 3 passenger assistance alarms on the TTC just now.. Good thing I got out of the house with lots of time to spare and am still somewhat early. *shakes fist at the passengers who caused the delay* #mypoorbladder” Those … Continue reading

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Captioning the Asian Film Awards with Jade King

On March 18, 2013, I attended the 7th Annual Asian Film Awards with Jade King in Hong Kong.  I met up with Jade at 11 that morning to get to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.  I was beyond … Continue reading

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Steno Progress

Six students passed their speed tests this weekend.  Woohoo!  So happy when I got the e-mails informing me that they passed and and four of them were my former theory students.  YAY!  

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Heading to Music City in August!

Yay!  I just booked my plane tickets to Nashville, Tennessee for August for the NCRA Annual Convention!  Yay!!!  I’ve also just registered for the event too.  Heh.  I got excited reading about the resort that the Convention is being held … Continue reading

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Translation Statistics

On Friday, I shadowed a fellow friend and former CCVS grad and now court reporter at an examination for discovery.  There was an interpreter for this examination and it pertained to a local business!  I was pretty excited for it … Continue reading

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Short shadowing session

I shadowed Lisa today again on a case!  Yay!  To my surprise, the case was only 48 minutes lol. We started at 10 a.m. sharp and before we even had any sort of break at all, the lawyer announced he … Continue reading

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Job Shadowing at the Federal Court

Cool beans! I got to shadow a court reporter today at a Federal Court trial. 😀 This doesn’t happen very often since special permission needs to be asked; students from our school typically sit in on cases at the reporting … Continue reading

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A Look-back at Teaching Phoenix Theory at CCVS

It was a Thursday afternoon in late August 2012 when I received an e-mail from CCVS asking me if I was interested in teaching Phoenix Theory at the school. My first reaction after reading the e-mail was, “No way, I’m … Continue reading

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Job shadowing Lisa Lamberti

I shadowed another court reporter today. Yay! I’ve actually shadowed her before too, Lisa Lamberti, so it was quite nice when she came into the room and said, “Hi Karen! Good to see you again!” This was another examination for … Continue reading

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So close

I know I’m going to be saying this a lot as I continue testing for speed tests in my journey towards the 225, but I was SO close.  I got back my test result for my LIT 160 wpm test … Continue reading

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