Please advise me on my situation.
Hi guys.
Right off the bat, I'd like to warn you that this is potentially going to be an extremely long post.
Anyway, I'm moving to a new school.
In South Africa, main streem (or public) schools have a choice on weather to accept someone with a disability or not.
Its completely up to them.
I've been in schools for the disabled for over 5 years now and change is rather frightening.
This new school is quite unique in the sense that it only has 25 or so students, is situated in a house and has no uniform to speak of.
I'm hoping that the other students will be deasant.
What I'm saying is that most high school students can only talk about the drugs they take, the girls they bang and the bad things that they get up to in there spare time. I know the're all teens, but there is a limit. They can often be quite rude, antagonising, or just down right childish and immature.
Again, they're teenagers, and I get that, because I am one of them.
I just really hope there are some that can hold an intelegent conversation without discussing there sex life and drug habits.
I've also had instances where people charged with assisting me with certain tasks will often degrade me for not doing them to there liking, while the other blind student is helped and praised for doing the same (or even worse) then I did.
For instance, we were doing a science project, nothing big, when i was required to spoon yeast from its packet into a cup.
The science teacher was standing next to me and assisting me to pour it without making a mess.
Anyway, I accidentally almost got yeast all over and the teacher aid said "don't let him do it, he's just fooling around."
I don't know about you, but to me that seems rather heartless.
Anyway, I'm going to be the only visually impared in a group of sighted students. I really don't know what to think or do, my nerves are probably going to kill me.
I had a strange dream about the place last night.
Anyway, it was my first day and I was quite nervous. My friends and I had spent the previous night stealing books from dead spirits (it was a dream), and taking there photos and hanging them so that there pictures were facing the wall, upside down.
Doesn't that seem a bit disrespectfull to the dead?
Anyway, I get to school and this russian guy of about 17 comes up to me.
There's one problem.
He can barely speak a word of english, or any of the other South African languages for that matter.
I try telling him my name, and he can't seem to say it.
My name is an extremely common english name.
The head of the institution arrives along with the other students.
I introduce myself to a young African guy who screams "what's up bro, so good to meet you!".
Then the head comes up to me and tells me that the students bring there dead relatives to school by way of there body parts.
She then shows me an arm belonging to an elderly women who was writing her final exams (she was dead and stil writing them).
She then tells me about a skeleton named Brav Bones who had attended. She then said "The other students had to move his body parts manually for him to be able to do things.
He couldn't eat shit, and shit is from america." I sware that's what she said! Remember it was a dream.
Anyway, we go inside and there are 2 doors. One on my left and one on my right.
I then ask one of the girls "which one should I use?"
And she responds "which ever one you feel comfortable using."
They all went right, but I went left.
In the room, I found my BrailleSense polaris and my pearl camera. There were also empty boxes and tins and papers with sighted text on them.
Every time i touched something with sighted text, a random song would start playing in which the students were singing that it would be fine as they would read everything for me.
I then woke up.
This post is quite long, but I have more to say.
So, I'm not someone who socialises a lot.
My family doesn't like this.
Upon there insistence, I have to do one physical and one cultural activity.
As some of you may know, I'm a voice actor by trade and not much else.
I tell them I want to do acting as my cultural activity, but they don't want that as "I already do that for fun".
My brother is talking about a guy who does drumming lessons for a nominal fee.
The problem is that I absolutely do not (do not!) want to do anything that involves music as I was forced to do music in primary school. What else should i do?
I feel that they are trying to push me in a cornor where the only choice i have is music.
I tell them that I've tried it, but they don't seem to listen., and god forbid they choose my physical.
I want to do judo or karate, but they might want me to do swimming or something similar.
Please help?
Thanks in advance.
PS. Should I publish this post on audible? JK.
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