[nabs-l] re college classes vs high school classes

[Josh Kennedy]

Hi

Personally I cannot wait to graduate from college. When I went to 
college I spent much time at the numan center at least I think that's 
how it's spelled. Anyway its the place on campus for people who are 
catholic. Actually looking back on it I wish I had gone to a college in 
Pittsburg or Baltimore Maryland. I would have had access to good public 
transportation. Seems like so far in my life I grow up in a small town, 
go to college in a small town. get married move to another even smaller 
town. Then move to a town that in my opinion is pretending to be a city 
where nothing happens anyway. I don't care if it takes me 20 years I'm 
getting my degree from capella. And then if it takes me another 20 years 
to get a good paying 40k a year job well fine then. I attribute my 
current and past failures to growing up in a small town. When my mom 
realized she had a disabled child she should have moved us to Baltimore 
or Philadelphia at least in my opinion. then I would have had a better 
opportunity. I may be wrong about this completely but I think that blind 
people who grow up in farely large cities have more opportunities from 
the get go versus those who grow up in small towns. Grant-it my parents 
did the best they could. I got to go to costa rica, florida, bism, and 
one or two other places. But the rest of the time I was living a in  a 
small very small town. As a child it was fine maybe up through 8 or so 
years old. But after that it became so very boring nearly ever day I 
wished I lived somewhere else, anywhere else. in some place where 
something was happning. If I were my mom and I was raising me I would 
have given up the little safety zone of my small quiet town in the 
middle of nowhere and moved to a big city not for my own comfort but to 
give my child every opportunity to succeed I possibly could.
Another thing I don't get with sighted people is again lets take my mom 
for example. she drives 1 and a half hours to work each day. so that's 3 
hours of driving each day. 15 hours a week and 60 hours a month. that's 
about 3000 hours per year just driving back and forth to work. Now if we 
would have moved closer to where he worked. as in if we had lived in the 
same city then she could have spend thousands more hours with me. So 
part of my moving out getting married having a child means also that I 
have to not only take care of my family, I also have to correct my 
parents failures and the failures of the educational system. Oh it'll 
happen, slowly but surely it will happen I will correct ehrie their 
gheir failures.

Josh