Business class

Three times a week we meet for a class called the Business of Blindness. The class alternates between three different times during the week. In this class we discuss all sorts of things that affects us and the people around us. We may have a speaker come in to discuss resume writing and interviewing for jobs, a counselor come in and tell the younger students what they will need to do to get ready for college or our director will discuss various items relating to blindness.

On Friday she talked about alternative ways of doing daily chores and other things. She read an article from Kenneth Jernigan telling about how different ways of doing things is fine and dandy. Just because it is different doesn't make it a bad thing to do. For instance, he wrote about how a blind man and his wife differed on brushing their teeth. She applied the paste to her toothbrush and was annoyed once when the paste fell into the sink before she got it into her mouth. He was surprised when he heard that was how she got the paste to her mouth. He simply bit off a small amount and never lost his toothpaste to the sink.

This is just an example of how a blind person can achieve almost anything, only they may have to do it in a different way than a sighted person does it. More later.