[Nfb-or] Student Meeting

[T. Joseph Carter]

Mike,

Corvallis is perhaps a little more difficult, unless you've got a way 
to get to Albany.  From Albany, you can make it a day trip for little 
more than the cost of cab fare across town via Amtrak.  I used to do 
it from Eugene--though when I did it was a particularly long day with 
a very early start and a fairly long walk to the train station before 
the bus system started running.

Our board meetings are likely to always be held either via telephone 
conference or at either our state convention or members' seminar.

I recently went up to Portland since I knew there were several 
interested students in the area and from Monmouth I can make the trip 
using only city buses (though it's quite an amazing trek!)  It was a 
lot of fun, so I hope to be able to do it again.

I'm not sure how to get to Corvallis either, but I know how to get to 
Albany.  If you know how to make the connection work, and especially 
if you know of other blind students in the area, we might want to 
organize a gathering in your area as well!  There's also Jimmy down 
in Eugene.

Probably it won't be practical for all of us to attend any given 
gathering in a particular area.  For half the week, I cannot make the 
trip even to Portland, and it's easily done for me.  If we get enough 
students interested, that won't be a problem at all.

Joseph

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:19:01PM -0700, Mike Sivill wrote:
>Hey guys,
>In one of the previous messages someone mentioned that transportation is
>doable. I would love to participate and help out with the student affiliate
>but I live in Corvallis and haven't discovered a very cost-effective way to
>get up to Portland. Any ideas? 
>Mike Sivill
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-or-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-or-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of Haben Girma
>Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:09 PM
>To: NFB of Oregon mailing list
>Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] Student Meeting
>
>
>Anyone else have a preference of activity? Bill says hiking or climbing, 
>Joseph says climbing sounds fun.
>
>Another option is to do just meet at a cafe/restaurant again (how about 
>Paccini's again?) and decide there for a climbing/hiking activity in the 
>future. Want to try for next week?
>
>Haben
>
>T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>> Some of us are very outdoorsy.  Others not so much (or not at all).  I 
>> love the idea of having another meeting, and I like the idea of 
>> scheduling some other events to get blind students active together 
>> (our isolation has been the greatest problem thus far), but I wonder 
>> if we're not big enough for an event that several of us wouldn't be 
>> interested in.
>>
>> Rock climbing sounds like fun.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:58:12PM -0700, Haben Girma wrote:
>>> Hey Joseph,
>>>
>>> I would love to have another meeting in Portland! We need to divide 
>>> up  the labor of sending letters to agencies for the blind and 
>>> schools in  Oregon. What do you think of combining the business 
>>> meeting with hiking,  tandem biking, rock climbing, or social 
>>> dancing? Hiking would involve no  costs, rock climbing and social 
>>> dancing would be about $10 per person,  and tandem biking would, I 
>>> have to say, probably be out of our financial  reach to organize. I'd 
>>> be fine with the food or meeting room, of course.
>>>
>>> Joe Orozco is the webmaster of the NABS website and he made it sound  
>>> like he could easily have a site up for us. If I understand you  
>>> correctly, Oregon definitely needs a website so since Oregon will 
>>> get  one, might as well have the student page at the same place. Right?
>>>
>>> How do you all feel about a regional event with Washington and Idaho?
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Haben
>>
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