[nabs-l] A few unrelated questions

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Kaiti. My travel abroad was only to Australia, but I remember that
the customs forms were completed on the plane, so I asked a flight
attendant for assistance. At the airport you should just give the
customs official your form and possibly answer a few questions
verbally. As for finding your contact, can you email or call ahead and
explain you are blind so instead of waiting for you to find their sign
or see them, could they look out for a person with a cane? That is
probably the easiest way to broach the subject. Generally when I am in
places where English isn't the main language, I tend to accept more
help than I normally would, partly because it's harder to get verbal
directions and partly so as to not offend the locals. Will you be the
only American on this trip?
Arielle

On 1/16/15, Joseph Hudson via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi, I found one groups. That might interest you for your first question I
> hope it helps.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
> via nabs-l
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:46 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] A few unrelated questions
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a few unrelated questions here, but if anyone could answer any
> combination of them I would be really grateful.
>
> 1.  International travel.  I'll be flying internationally for the first
> time
> in June for a study abroad trip.  I am by no means a frequent flyer having
> only flown once before to a National Convention, and I am a little unsure
> of
> the differences between international travel and domestic travel.  It was
> very easy going from one airport to the other when I went to Orlando, but I
> don't know what the procedure is for filling out customs forms.  Would I
> want to call ahead to the airline to make sure the personelle are aware
> that
> someone will ned to help me fill out the customs paperwork?  I am also a
> little nervous about reaching my contact person once in the airport in my
> destination.  Thankfully English is the main language and the patois is
> pretty easy for me to understand, but I also understand that due to
> religious norms the disabled are seen as people "to be taken care of."  Not
> that this is extremely different from treatment we receive in American
> airports (I was surprised when I wasn't greeted with a wheelchair after
> getting off the plane in 2013), but I guess I'm just a little nervous going
> into a third world country where refusing unnecessary help might be more
> offensive than what I'm used to in the states.  Has anyone flown
> independently to another country, especially Jamaica or another island in
> the Caribbean?  If so, would you be willing to share your experiences?
>
> Second, I am interested in bluetoothing my IPhone and BrailleSense On-Hand
> together.  I now have an IPhone 6 so my IOS is up-to-date.  I royally
> screwed up when I tried to do it with an IPhone 4, so if anyone has
> resources for how to do this, that would be awesome.
>
> 3.  Has anyone here taken human anatomy?  I'm looking to take it next
> semester, and my DS office is starting to prep for it now.  I'm thinking
> that I will want to take the lab along with the lecture even though it
> isn't
> required for my major, mainly because I think having the lab will give me a
> chance to touch some of the things we talk about in the normally very
> visual
> course.  Some of my sighted friends struggled in Anatomy and think they
> also
> would have benefitted from taking the lab with the lecture, so I do think
> it
> will be even more important for me.  I know many science majors have had
> issues with getting profs to allow them to participate in disections and
> other hands-on activities with sharp objects, and being a music major I
> have
> no experience navigating these kinds of issues.  Any advice would be very
> useful to me, as I think I'll actually start meeting with the professor in
> February to make sure that she is on-board and has some input with her
> expertise into how we can accommodate me in these courses.
>
> --
> Kaiti
>
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