[nagdu] freelance classes?

[Tracy Carcione]

It sounds like what Pilot calls an achievement walk is what TSE calls a
solo.  There are a few solos during class, starting off fairly easy and
moving up.  The first-timers have a really long one, which the retrains
skip, probably because retrains leave earlier.  They're not really solos
either, since you have another student partner.  On our first solo, I got
a bit mixed up.  My partner and I were trying to get directions from some
day laborers, who didn't know what street we were on, either.  Then we got
ready to cross a busy street, instead of walking along it, on my bad
advice, and our instructor had to come over and set us straight.  Oops.
Tracy

> Hi, Chantel,
> Each guide dog school program varies from each other.
> Since Pilot is in Columbus, OHio, they are smaller than denver, Colorado
> is
> for instance.
> They do have a public transportation bus system that the staff and
> trainies
> ride on into further downtown where training routes do take place.
> Denver, Colorado has a monarail system known as the Regional
> Transportation
> District (RTD) light rail.
> Columbus doesn't have any monarail systems since it's smaller than Denver.
> During training when you go down to work inside the shopping mall, there
> will be plenty of things for your dog to be exposed to like kids and the
> food court alike.
> i"m sure if you were to speak with jay Gray, you can share your concerns
> and
> what you'd like to learn during your training session.
> Pilot doesn't call their final walk a freelance, but the achievement walk.
> As for the achievement walk, the instructor is there with you, but they
> allow you to do majority of the work.
> Only time they will step in is if a dangerous situation were to arise.
> There was one particular street that I had trouble with and had to wait a
> while until I could get a direct opening.
> If I couldn't get a direct opening, the instructor would call out the
> light
> for me.
> In Columbus where Pilot is and the shopping mall, there are no crosswalk
> buttons, but the cycles are set to where you do have enough time to cross
> the street.
> There are bricks on the ground at the corner where you can line yourself
> up
> to cross the street safely.
> Bibi and Odie
> the happy spirited bounty labra wolf
>
>
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