August 12-16, 2013
From what I can recall, this was a pretty stressful week. Bryan arranged for orientations with about 5 visually impaired (VI) students to get acquainted with their new school.We spent about 2 1/2 hrs with Jack and his parents at Palm Harbor Middle School. This was a very long process and I remember Bryan telling me that this kind of thing usually did not take this long. It seemed to take a lot of time to appease both his parents and Jack as well. Plus, this was a fairly large school and I almost felt sorry for the poor guy that had to change classes and get in and out of his locker 7 times during the school day.
Then, we met Michelle at Palm Harbor University High School and helped her get acquainted with her classes. She was a superb student and was basically guiding us. I could tell she was taught O&M techniques well and she put them into practice well. I was impressed by her ability to get around the school independently.
On another day, we met at Forest Lakes and showed some other students (Jon, Grace, Ella, Alex) their classrooms. This was important, because they needed to learn the routes to class (either from bus or car circle) and routes in the classrooms (before all the noise and distraction of other students hit).
All of this was really good for me to see. I had no idea so much of this kind of planning went into it. I came home after this week completely spent. And, I remember Bryan continually reminding me that when the schedule set in, it wouldn't be as stressful as the first 2 weeks of pre-planning. I was hoping he was right, but I was still really enjoying it.
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