[nabs-l] Fw: Register for Bay Area Disability Seminar on International Exchange

[T. Joseph Carter]

Franandah,

If travel is a goal for you, then know that it is a goal within your 
reach.  Perhaps not this year, but it will happen because you will 
make it happen.  Perhaps as a student--or perhaps after you've 
finished school.  Maybe you'll convince the people around you that a 
blind person can travel the world independently.  Or maybe you'll 
travel on your own despite others' mistaken belief that you can't.

The point is that if you want it, and if you're willing to work for 
it, you can make it happen.  Know that you have the support of the 
National Association of Blind Students, and the whole of the National 
Federation of the Blind behind you.  We're not accustomed to giving 
up when someone tells us that we can't.  We ignore such people and 
get ourselves the results we need.

Joseph
Who has had his feet on the ground in nine states this summer...


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:43:31AM -0400, Franandah Damstra wrote:
>Man, this is what I ALWAYS wished to do! I signed up for an exchange
>programme just this pass year, but they couldn't find a family who
>would take in a Blind girl. I would love to go, but my parent's
>wouldn't allow it and we live on the other side of the US. Is there
>any way I could get the information and get into contact with these
>people? My dream always has been to travel abroad and if it is indeed
>possible, I would love to do it.
>~Franandah