(VICT) Re: Drumroll! We Rode Max!
- From: "Gisele Mesnage" <gisele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:03:38 +1000
Hello Karyn,
Good on you both! I gather "Max" is a super speed train ? I had heard that
there were streets with no sidewalks (we call them "footpaths" in Australia) in
the US, and I had wondered how I would walk along such streets. It sounds so
scary to me. So you are in Oregon? It's interesting to read about where
people live. I'm in Sydney.
Cheers,
Gisele
gisele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Karyn and Thane
To: Vi-clicker
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 8:34 AM
Subject: (VICT) Drumroll! We Rode Max!
I am so proud of us! We have come so far and manage to handle so many things
together. Last month I did not do near enough with Thane and especially with
transit and it was showing some, but today was different- despite a comedy
of errors- all my faults not Thane's, he really shone.
So many things went with Murphey's Law today- one after the other from
getting up late, to my phone software not working, to me accidentally
straddling the ramp because I got on at a weird angle- not Thane's fault at
all, then I took the train in the wrong direction, then I chose a busy
street with no sidewalk much of the distance to walk down to get where we
were going, then construction to deal with that was very chaotic. There was
enough wrong that many a sane person would have gone home. I knew though
that if we just rolled with the punches we would gain a lot as a team- in
figuring our way around, in figuring what works best in various situations
and even in working as a team in general which as a result builds not just
our individual confidences but our confidence as a working team. There were
a couple places where the train vibrated a bit more than comfortable for
both of us, but we still did fine. I would not have continued at any point
that I felt I was going beyond what we were capable of, but Thane just
really rocked today. In the end it all worked out and I feel such
confidence at exceeding what Met and I had done together since my move to
Oregon.
For a time, I thought I would never be able to ride max. The website makes
it sound so hard and so scary honestly for a deafblind person. I got great
insites from a couple of people on an Oregon guide dog list I recently
joined- its just a chatty life list, but I have learned a lot about the area
from these people. Smile
And my thoughts for this day are *So what if I got on the train going the
wrong direction, we really rocked and that is all that matters!*
We will take some time off to contemplate and rest up before trying anything
else new.
Who knows one of these days we just might wind up in Portland!
Karyn and Thane
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