Back to class

Monday April 3rd - It was tough going back to class after our exciting weekend, but at least I find the class content interesting. This morning we went over the assessment process and developing lesson plans. Assessing a client for O&M training has a lot in common with doing a home interview for a guide dog applicant. We learned about the ways in which clients are referred to GDV and the varying levels of information you may or may not receive before your assessment.

Ron’s Aussie of the Day – (Brought to us today by Jhaneen) “Flat Chat” which means that you are swamped or overloaded. “I didn’t have time to do my laundry as I was flat chat all weekend”

After lunch we returned to our long cane skills. We learned how to ‘shoreline’, the 3 point touch technique, slide and drag, and how to go up and down stairs. We also crossed our first intersection which was a little scary.

After class Sue and I went to the gym, and returned to an empty dorm again. It seems that the client who was supposed to be training this week postponed until next week. Grant, Ron, and Carrie have some maintenance type things to do here but aren’t spending the night if there are no clients, so we have the dorm to ourselves all week. The only bummer is we have to fend for ourselves for dinner each night, I’m already missing Christina & Grant’s cooking, boy am I spoiled! Before bed I spent some time sending emails and doing some computer work and, of course, blogging!