[nabs-l] Studying abroad

[Greg Aikens]

I also highly recommend study abroad if you can make it happen.  I spent a semester in Salamanca, Spain during my undergrad and took my Seeing Eye dog with me.  The hardest piece related to taking my dog was that it took me some time to actually discover where to buy quality dog food over there and the constant travel without settling in one place meant near constant stress on my dog.  Even though I spent most of my time in one city, I never stayed in one place for more than two weeks at a time, taking my weekends to travel around and then returning for classes.  I had to take steps to give my dog time to destress and relax in between.  As always with dog vs. cane travel, there are trade offs.  

Best of luck as you investigate this opportunity.

-Greg


On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Traveling abroad is an amazing opportunity.  Having never been outside
> the continental U.S before, and now being in a major that is even more
> rare outside of American boarders than it is inside, I'd do just about
> anything for the experience.  (I'm thinking a summer abroad to work on
> my minors in psych or philosophy).
> 
> That being said, not every student gets this chance, so I'd take it
> and figure the stuff out to make it happen as you go.  Yes, it sounds
> risky, but it will probably be well worth it, and what Mary said about
> the language barrier not being too different from the one the sighted
> students will experience sounds right.  I'd go for it.
> 
> Best of luck!
> 
> On 10/11/13, Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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
>>>> 
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>>>> 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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