The Adventure Begins

Welcome to this new blog of mine, I wanted to start doing this blog cause recently I began to volunteer as helper for the visually handicapped.

On the 26th of August I met with this nice woman who we shall call Tabbie, through her I started to volunteer as a helper for the visually handicapped. In that meeting I talked about myself and told her why I wanted to help, she was very pleased that I was interested. She told me that they needed young volunteers, since most of the volunteers were older people. I got to try out these special glasses, each one simulated different levels of visual handicaps. There were 10 of them, the 11th one of course was the loss of sight all together. Anyway, she was pleased that I was offering my time. She had been looking for someone younger, since she had these two 20 year old young men. For privacy and security purposes, I will not use their real names. So we shall call them Andy and Odie, they are twins, but not identical.

Now lets move forward to 2nd of September, just last Monday. I met with Andy and Odie at Tabbie's offices, I was nervous to say the least. Still I think it went well, both Andy and Odie seemed like very nice young men. They were very shy, barely saying much at all. Well we arranged that I would meet them at their home on the 6th, which was today.

So today after attending a meeting at the offices, I went to meet them at their home. Andy and Odie lived in a very nice neighbourhood  there was a lake near them and lots of forest around them. I love forests and lakes, so it was great. Still as we met, I could see that they were nervous. They did have a chocolate coloured Labrador dog, she was very VERY energetic and a happy dog. I did get to meet Andy's and Odie's mother and their brother, looked like a nice family.

For our first outing, we just went for a walk around the neighbourhood. I did most of the talking, tried to get to know them a bit more. They were very shy, but were very nice. I know I'm repeating myself, but it's true. Anyway we went to the local store and bought some ice cream, after that we came back to their place after we walked a bit more.

Back home they did start to talk a bit more, Odie told me that he likes cooking, baking and swimming. Andy is still a bit more shy than Odie, but then again his sight is quite bad since he uses one of those walking canes. Well they showed me their rooms and showed me a bit of a PS3 game, it was a wrestling game and they had made this funny looking custom wrestler. The guy looked like some steroid experiment gone horribly wrong, overly muscled with tiny tiny feet.

Well that was my first day with Andy and Odie, it was a nervous start. Still I have faith that it will work out just well, next time I meet them is on the 11th. Until then, keep an eye out ^_^