Vision Australia and the Comedy Festival

Tuesday May 2nd – Today we went on a tour of Vision Australia which is an agency that provides many of the same services that GDV provides except for training guide dogs. This agency recently merged with two of the other large organizations who provide services for the visually impaired (Royal Blind Society and Royal Victoria Institute for the Blind). They have a low vision clinic there which sells various supplies like magnifiers, large clocks, phones with large readable buttons, etc. They run a Braille library and a print radio station which reads newspapers, books, and other entertaining and informational items. Vision Australia also provides technology training and employment services. It was an interesting tour.
In the afternoon we continued working on our long cane routes under blindfold. My route went pretty well overall although I did whack a homeless guy sitting on the sidewalk with my cane. Of course I apologized profusely.
This evening we went with Jhaneen into the city centre and saw a comedy show. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is happening right now and the city was parked with people going to various shows. We saw a group called “Tripod” who are hilarious! They play guitars and sing playful funny songs poking fun at themselves and the world. Check them out at www.3pod.com.au