Graduation

One of my close friends graduated today. Even though we only knew each other for a month we had a good time around each other. I really enjoyed her company. Anyways she finished her big meal for 50 that is done on graduation day. Also finished her mega monster route early this week. It's a trip we have to plan out and make for a day that involves four city locations to visit, catching all of the transit required for it, and meeting everyone at a restaurant of choice. She picked the Ave. Grill in Denver. It was pretty stressful but she did it. Also to graduate we are required to do complete a project in technology, organizational skills, a 30 page braille recipe book for home management, a mini meal for 15, a woodworking project, a braille project, the monster route for travel, a support drop in the middle of the city, a drop alone in the city, and then our final meal for 50. I am most nervous about the drops. We are dropped somewhere, can only ask one question, and need to find our way back to the center.

This program is definitely a very intense training program and requires a lot out of us. It's very good for me to have high expectations placed on me in order to be prepared to do anything I put my mind too as a blind person. Going to graduate school for a doctorate in Biophysics will demand a lot, even more as a blind person. I know I can handle the academics behind it, but I will also know that I can handle the affects blindness will have on me as well. It's a confidence building program, but it can also feel discouraging as we are muddling our way through. We just can't give up b/c we can do it. I know that given what I have faced in my life as a hearing impaired individual and, overcome, I can now do the same thing with blindness.

Good Luck out in the world Shelby! I will treasure our time together!!!!