Teaching still doesn’t feel very natural, but I think it’s coming along. I still worry about keeping Lauren safe without interfering with her learning. I’m obviously still working on striking a balance. It makes sense to me to let her keep walking in the road until she’s not safe, and the longer she’s in the road, the longer she has to learn, but I have a hard time letting it happen. I get SOOO nervous when Lauren’s in the road, especially the last few times when she was in Duval. I feel like she’s playing chicken with the cars and doesn’t even know it, and it’s up to me to tell her when she’s unsafe. It makes me really uncomfortable because I want her to learn, but I get a little too paranoid.
Traveling under blindfold was really interesting because I’d never seen most of the route I took. Lauren did a good job helping me figure out the few things that threw me, and I think she gave me a good amount of time to figure out everything else myself.
I never did understand the area around the post office. I’d like to go over the area again next time because I didn’t understand where the traffic was and how I used it to get everything straight. I think I just got lucky. I was suddenly very overwhelmed with the traffic noise and the sounds from the truck, so even though Lauren was asking the right questions, I didn’t really understood the conclusions she was leading me to.
I have concluded, though, that I really don’t like to walk down hill in a new area. It makes me feel really uneasy. I think it’s partly because I’m getting all the signals that I’m about to fall. That’s one of those things that I would never have thought about making a student uncertain until I did it and felt it myself. So, there’s definitely something to our being a little uncomfortable to better understand what it’s like to travel without vision.
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