Today I had a listening test for English. It’d be the first two hours, and on Tuesday I’d been told that I’d have to do it in Mr. De B.’s room, cause I’d do an alternative test (cause the others get a listening and watching test). So, everything alright, I thought, and off I went [...]
Archive for January, 2005
English Listening Test
Posted in High School, Personal on January 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
More Next Year Frustrations
Posted in College / University, Personal, Rehab on January 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I think there’s a lot about the next year stuff that I have to sort out. There are practical things I hardly talk about. I still haven’t applied at IB-Groep, and, beside some casual notes while on the open day, the folks in Nijmegen have no idea that I “want” (blessed are the quotation marks!) [...]
Rants about an English Book and University
Posted in College / University, High School, Personal on January 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to find Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in the library. The folks at the library for the blind only have it in recorded format, and I hate that with English literature – I tried with Ulysses. Dad said that I was actually asking Mum to go to the library with me to [...]
Feeling Dizzy, French Book Update and Fitness
Posted in Health, High School, Personal on January 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
As I woke up this morning at 7:00, I was very dizzy. I fell almost immediately and hit my head on my desk. Ouch!!! It still hurts and there’s a large bump on my head. I still feel a little dizzy. Have no idea why that was, cause as I woke up at 6:25, I [...]
French Book Frustrations
Posted in High School, Personal on January 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I got a book for French – La Chute by Albert Camus. I showed it to the teacher and she said it was a very good book. Then when I got home Mum said there’s a vocabulary list at the back of the book. Ooops, I thought, isn’t this an edited version? Mum said that [...]
Thoughts on Anger, Expressing Feelings, and Assertiveness
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties on January 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago, Mum, Sigrid and I somehow got to speak about when we were little. Sigrid made remarks about kids bullying me and I doing nothing about it. She always stood up for me, cause I just let it happen. Then Sigrid and Mum got like that I should have bitched them off. [...]
Upcoming Course Update and Dentist
Posted in College / University, Personal on January 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I am feeling frustrated. I got the programme for the course of February 9 to 12. I hate it. Besides a walk through the city of Groningen, cooking a meal, and an example of a college class, the entire course is full of presentations and information rounds. I don’t like going one bit. I know [...]
Rants about Upcoming Course
Posted in Blindness, College / University, Personal on January 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I received an E-mail this evening from a folk at the school for the blind in Groningen. They organize a three-day course for blind folks who are about to go to college, in cooperation with the University of Groningen. The folk had sent the E-mail already in December but had made a typeo in my [...]
More Sentimental Memories from 1994/1995
Posted in Memories on January 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I heard on our provincial radio station about the flood in 1995. It was not only in Itteren and Borgharen in Limburg but also in my province, Gelderland, but I didn’t live there at the time. I remember watching TV in those days in early 1995 and making drawings of flooded areas. For some reason, [...]
Lots of Feelings about Blindness and Other Issues
Posted in Blindness, Multiplicity, Personal on January 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I know many writings that highlight the implications disability – including blindness – may have. I know many blind people who, like me, have had emotional difficulties relating to their blindness. The articles I linked to yesterday also point to these issues. Still, I feel a bit ashamed of having these issues. It’s not even [...]
