Re: Digest for braille-alumni-connects-students@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic
michael
I competed in the braille challenge three times and I came in second place twice. The only thing I
didn't like about it was the part where they play a tape and you're supposed to copy everything it says. I just
couldn't get the hang of that one. But other than that the braille challenge was cool.
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>What do you remember most about your Braille Challenge experience?Braille
>Alumni Connects Students <ls...@brailleinstitute.org> Mar 05 10:55AM -0800
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>Hey Alumni!
>A couple weeks ago, I heard about a student who got to compete for the
>first time in her regional competition. She didn't realize that it
>would be one of the most exciting experiences!
>So to those who have taken the Braille Challenge regional competition
>(or even the finals in Los Angeles), what are some of your favorite
>stories or memories that you can share with us?
>Amber Attaway <missanon...@gmail.com> Mar 05 06:44PM -0600
>Mine is when I went to the finals for the first and second time. Both
>those times were really cool because there were tons of other blind
>kids there that were normal just like me. You know how sometimes it's
>hard to find blind people who are normal, who don't have social issues
>or other disabilities that effect them mentally, and so when I went to
>the finals in L.A., it gave me the opportunity to sit around a coffee
>table until 1 in the morning telling dirty jokes and laughing and
>talking with people my age the same way other teenagers do. Formost
>blind people stuff like that is a big deal, at least it was for me,
>because to this day I have had and still do have trouble finding
>friends who are sighted. They can't get past the blindness factor and
>they just treat me different, no matter how hard I try to show and
>tell them I'm just a person. I just do things a little differently.
>But either way, the fact that I could meet new people and we could
>just get to know each other right off was really cool. Plus it was
>always a nice vacation.
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