I was thinking over my opinion on expectations of blind children this afternoon. Well, I’ve been thinking it over a lot over the past few months, but still. I found myself criticising the NFB philosophy to Sigrid last Saturday when we were going to the mall. I told her that blind people aren’t poor, helpless [...]
Archive for May, 2004
On Labels (Depressing Ramblings)
Posted in Autism, Blindness, Personal on May 31, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Residual Vision and Orientation
Posted in Blindness on May 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I do usually rely on my cane for O & M, cause I know I can’t trust my eyes
anyway (whether sunny or cloudy or whatever weather). What is annoying to me
is when I try to concentrate on cane use I’m distracted by sights like
shadows and changes in colour.
Not that I don’t use my vision when [...]
Corrected French1
Posted in High School, Personal on May 27, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
So, we’ve corrected the first half of unit 5. We got less far than I’d hoped, but that was also cause I was a bit late and Mrs. Van O. had to leave earlier to supervise the exams.
At times, I felt pretty weird, when Mrs. Van O. sat next to me, looking at my screen [...]
French and V-Periods
Posted in High School, Personal on May 26, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
I just took a look at my French1, which I’ll be correcting tomorrow. I’d expected I had done units 5 and 6 pretty seriously and unit 8 not so, cause I wouldn’t get a mark anyway. Surprise! Unit 8 appeared almost totally serious and units 5 and 6 were full of skipped exercises and quickly [...]
Textbook Blues
Posted in High School, Personal on May 24, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Oh no! Textbook blues again! I feel sooo bad…
A few weeks ago we started with the theme of philosophical anthropology in philosophy class. I had the textbook and, as it was shortly after I’d noticed my Latin book wasn’t complete (which I could’ve known before, cause the discussed chapter was in the table of contents [...]
French1 Can Be Cool
Posted in High School, Personal on May 24, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Today I had French1. I worked on the new unit 9 and suddenly realised how easy French1 actually is, while still being interesting. It was my first French1 activity since May 13. (Admittedly, I hadn’t worked on the new units yet.) The text we read was pretty cool. It was about an organisation that tries [...]
Thoughts on Michael Moore
Posted in Politics and Current Events on May 23, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I heard on the news that Michael Moore has won the Golden Palm at Cannes’ movie festival. I like his critical judgement of George W. Bush and the other folks involved. I’m way against Bush – not that I’m pro Kerry or any other democrat, as they’re still very conservative, but still. Fahrenheit 9/11 [...]
Dinner with the Future Reflections in Mind
Posted in Blindness on May 23, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we had rice, chicken wings and vegetables for dinner. As Dad put rice on my plate and put chicken, chicory and the other vegetabbles over it, I thought about Barbara Pierce’s article Please Pass the Manners, and I tried to cut the chicory by myself. It went pretty well. Then, when I started eating, [...]
Thoughts on Slate and Stylus Use
Posted in Blindness on May 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I can’t keep my plans, can I? I came across some pretty interesting articles in old issues of Future Reflecions. No, this time they aren’t depressing, althoguh they do highlight the importance of a skill I’ve never been taught. But I think I might teach myself slate and stylus use someday if I can [...]
Latish Night Ramblings
Posted in Journaling, Personal on May 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
So, yeah, I’m still awake. Searching Google for journalling/diary stuff. I’ve been a diarist since October, 1997, have had a digital journal since August, 1999 and have kept various online journals since October, 2002. My longest existing online one is the Dutch diary at myDiary.nl, but rarely update it now as I have this journal [...]
