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Show .m.im..j, 7' J Larry Cardon g M ,", iWe'ZZ woik together f or you! Commercial Life Homer Auto r . Cardoifi Insurance Agency 174 W. Main, American Fork 756-9643 American Fork CitizenLone Peak New Utah! - Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - Page 5 itudents get first-hand experience with challenges By Barbara Christiansen City Editor .Native Americans are reported to have said the way to understand someone else was to walk a mile in his moccasins. Today, students stu-dents at American Fork's Ensign School have learned ' about others through a sim-;. ilar method, rolling a mile in their tracks. dent3 received their assignments assign-ments through drawing names, then started their role playing. That first day it was just fun," said Roger Otis. "The second day it started getting get-ting tiresome. Now they realize there are definite limitations." " The students agreed. David Gann spent the As part of a handicapped first dav Dortravin? a blind awareness week; some; of f; student. Due to the extreme : the students at the private t limitations .that handicap, school took on the roles of put ton the learning process, several aitierent handicaps that particular handicap facing their peers. Some portrayed the blind, others were confined to wheelchairs, wheel-chairs, some walked on crutches, and others had arms in slings. ' v School directors Roger and Sue Otis used the same concept when they taught in California, and it brought the same results of increased awareness and compassion. At the beginning, , stu- faery ?J? , 5 , $ - ; Students uses crutches to go from Devotional to her class. was only used for one day instead of throughout the week the others did. ,rWhen I first got the blindfold put on, it seemed neat," he said. "I didn't really real-ly think about all the stuff that you can't do when you are blind. I though it would just be harder, but there are so many things you can't do, like work on a computer. It was really hard to do my work. Somebody had to read me the questions and I would tell them what to write." David indicated indi-cated he learned a lot about the hand-, hand-, icapped. "It made me think about what so many people go through every day," he said. "I felt cut off from everybody every-body else because I couldn't do what they did. It made me think about it. By the end of the day I was very relieved to take it off. "What I had the blindfold on, . people would try to help me and it was kind , . of scary because sometimes they did things too fast."- 1 ' '' He learned how to help others who are blind and a , little, bit about how they are feel- inS- bail Temporary wheelchair students learn the challenges faced by the handicapped at the grocery store. "If I saw somebody who was blind, I would ask what ; they need," he said. Then I : would ask what I could do to help them." David also learned that sighted people may have different expectations from blind ones. "I learned about personal space," he said. "A blind person per-son doesn't feel how close he is to you and that you may find it uncomfortable. I learned not to be offended 'I ( going fast. "It looks like fun to go fast f not!" she said. Saren had to ask someone some-one to get her lunch and heat it up for her, then had to wait until it was ready because there were big lines. It was hard to have to impose on others, she said. . , "It is also hard because people, have control of you," she said. "I felt embarrassed when we were supposed to stand for the Pledge of by that and I will try to ' Allegiance or kneel down understand more." Saren Henrikesen spent the week in a wheelchair. "It was : not really fun after even only 15 minutes," she said: "You get tired and stiff. People don't realize it but they leave things on the ground and in the aisles and you can't get around it." - Sometimes students would push her where she wanted to go and they tried to make it interesting by "for prayers and I couldn't." -, She said she has learned a lot about how others feel and how ' she will treat them. "Now it lets me know when other people are in a wheelchair how I will help them," she said. "After going through this I feel more sincere sin-cere and more devoted to help people." Many of the students learned a little of the loneliness loneli-ness that comes from having hav-ing a handicap. At first, other students pay a lot of attention to them and try to help. Then they are interested inter-ested in continuing their regular life and tend to leave their handicapped friends behind. "Your friends go on and you experience loneliness," said Otis. 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