[nabs-l] how to meet more people and get involved in activities

[Serena]

Hi Beckie,

As others have mentioned, looking on the college web site for activities or 
contacting the student activities office can be helpful.  If these options 
aren't accessible or don't work, if you happen to be religious, ask the 
priest (or whatever religious figure) on campus for guidance.  Religious 
figures are often open-minded people and quite tolerent of people who are 
different.  Also, if you use readers for books that aren't available in 
accessible format, readers could become your acquaintances or friends.  I 
even met some of my friends randomly on campus and they became great 
friends.

I'll admit, going to events off-campus isn't always simple.  Besides the 
issue of transportation, there are other barriers that may exist, depending 
on your skill level in cane travel.  One time, I really wanted to go to a NY 
Knicks basketball game.  (The trip was sponsored by the school, so we were 
all going on a bus from there.)  Nobody I knew was going--many of my friends 
hated sports ... some wanted to go, but had other obligations that night.  I 
called the student activities office to ask for names of students who were 
going, but, for some stupid, bureaucratic reason, the person in charge 
refused to tell me!  Finally, I asked the priest if he knew of anyone from 
our church group who was going.  Unfortunately, he didn't.  Before I knew 
it, he had called the student activities people and got them to tell him the 
chaperone who was going.  (This was a chaperone for all the students, 
nothing to do with my being blind.)  It turned out that I knew the chaperone 
from a club I was in.  She helped me stay with the group in the city and I 
had a great time!

Serena


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "becky sabo " <beckyasabo at gmail.com>
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:28 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] how to meet more people and get involved in activities


> Dear List,
> My name is Becky Sabo.  I live in Englewood Colorado.  My question is how 
> to
> get involved on campus and off campus to meet more people and also get
> involved in other activities.  I do not have a lot of friends and on the
> weekends I am usually board because I do not have plans to do anything or
> with any one.  If any suggestions I would appreciate that a lot.
> Sincerely
> Becky Sabo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Rachel Jacobs
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:12 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] question about Jaws and PDFs
>
> Hello. I am a jaws user and I can't seem to get PDF files to read using
> jaws. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Rachel Jacobs
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