I survived a week at the Gurney Training Center (GTC)!!

Today is Friday! I survived one week of training. But it was just a very free week because apparently the timetable was not ready yet. I wanted to ask my teacher "Is the timetable prepared by a blind person too?" but decided not to be too sarcastic instead...

One thing I realized from this five days is, blind people are more closely bonded to each other, its inevitable especially if you are fully blind (you need people to help you around) and also if you are partially sighted (you need to help those that are fully blind). I've never helped a blind person in my life, and actually it feels great to be needed, and it gives me a sense of self worth. Being blind also brings people closer and there are less racial discrimination (can't choose your seat if you are blind!). There was actually a funny thing I've encountered, we were lining up in a line, and behind me was two chinese who were both fully blind (ie,cannot see at all) and they were talking to each other in Malay. I turned around and said in mandarin to them "why are you two speeaking in malay? Did you know that both of you are chinese?' Both of them burst out laughing and started conversing in Chinese (way lot faster).

This week I've only started learning braille. My class has seven students and they all are at least SPM graduates. The teacher said we were learning at a very fast pace. But it was a very relaxing week due to no timetable.Braille is quite difficult to learn for me because my fingers are not sensitive at all! I can type but reading is difficult, and becasuse I had partial vision, I look with my eyes too! which according to the blind it is cheating!I have many more things to write, but I think my eyes need some rest now...will update again soon....