[nabs-l] Studying abroad

[Carly Mihalakis]

Hi, Minh,

         I have always been very hungry to travel abroad 
particularly, after meeting my childhood friend, Tieu, whom was 
adopted from the Nguyen Dinh Chieu blind school in Hanoi. While a 
kid, I always wanted to visit the school and aexperience Tieu's world 
before being adopted by white people. In fact, Tieu recently visited 
Nguyen Dinh Chieu as an adult.

I did get a chance to visit Kukizaki, Japan in '97 with my 
juniorhigh's sister city when, a delligation of kids visited that 
town where we lived with homestays, touring  some major tourest 
attractions such as Niko shrine, a historic monestary  as well as the 
sakura (cherry blossom) festival, a day trip to Tokyo, my homestay 
itself was an old temple. In my case, a girl, Yuri, lived amungst my 
homestay enviroment since, I think nowadays, although it wa great 
having access to Yuri's uunderstanding of the Japanese languag, I 
didn't get the experience to complete isolation caused by blind 
people being without the ability to communicate. Good luck, Minh!
   studied abroad this last summer with my University in France. I 
took Stockard with me, my guide dog, and had a great time! You have 
my contact information I think, feel free to get in touch with me off 
list and I can tell you all about my experience. :-)

>Laurel and Stockard
>
> > On Oct 11, 2013, at 11:32, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking into studying abroad in Italy my junior year and I was
> > wondering if any of you have had experience studying in a foreign
> > country as a totally blind student? I also have a guide dog so any
> > experience from students with guide dogs would be most helpful to me.
> > I'm trying to weigh all my options before I go any further with the
> > application process.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Minh
> >
> > --
> > "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
> > recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
> > but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on
> > their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." T. E. Lawrence
> >
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