Ok so what's went on this week then... On monday, as i wrote last week, i went to the college to do the orientation i had scheduled, i had rang twice, but when i went in, they were cleaning so i couldn't do it, was so frustrated! Then myself and my resource worker from NCBI(national council for the blind of ireland) came back to the house, and she had some tea seen as our orientation attempts had been unsuccessful, and we got to talking about my various ups and downs with zonta, after that, i did a walk, which she accompanied me on, just as a pair of eyes(not a guidedog instructor) very important to clear that up, and she was able to tell me some things about the walk, some of which didn't really please me, so much so that when i came home, i rang irish guidedogs, and was given some tips which i've since implemented, and things have gone fine since thank god! Tuesday paul came up, me and zonta got wet on a trip to the shops to get him, all because a bus driver forgot to tell him when he was at the proper stop! On tuesday night, we played at a benifit for a friend of our's brother, i don't think it went fabulously because i didn't do enough practice, but i'll know better for next time! On wednesday, i played at a barbeque in the NCBI, and had to struggle some more with zonta's dislike for music which i'm not impressed by at all! On monday evening i was trying to pick out stuff to play for the gig, and she was barking at the music i was playing, not not good! but anyway, the barbeque turned out well in the end, and we even got a taxi home, and zonta settled right down, in fact, i think i could safely say she was the most settled she'd been that night in that taxi! Thursday was nothing much really, paul was meant to go home, but because of a music technology workshop which was on the following day, he stayed up that was great! On friday then, we went to the msuic workshop, it was fasinating stuff! in the morning, we learned about braille music, and in the afternoon, we learned all about a program called sonar and the way in which jaws can interact with it thanks to a set of scripts which have been developed. for anyone who doesn't know, jaws stands for job access with speech, and is the screen reader widely used by blind people to help them access the internet and other aspects of a computer. Paul definitely wants sonar, and i would love it two it would come in handy for college! today then i met a friend in town and zonta was absolutely amazing! She behaved absolutely fabulously i'm so proud of her today! Really feel we're going from strength to strength!
Next week, my biggest thing is that i'm starting classical guitar, i cant wait! I got some guitar cd's today, so will enjoy listening to those!
I will write next week to tell how things are going, i also have an aftercare visit from guidedogs two so that should be interesting!
Till then, thanks for reading!
