today started out fairly normally, dr. j got mad at us for not reading our textbook. then we went on a field trip in my intellectual disabilities class. we went to central state hospital (yes, the infamous insane asylum) to their education and work activities center (ewac) and a nursing home for patients with mental retardation and more serious health concerns. ewac was fun, it was a little bit of a stretch for me cause i'm a lot better with kids than adults, but they were all so friendly. this one guy walked around our group shaking everyone's hand about 5 times. they were all in love with the ladies in our group, and who wouldn't be?!? (i know that i am.) we got to see the work that they do there (such as stuffing green scrubbing sponges into the cardboard sleeves and untangling and wrapping old wires). the nursing home was more of a stretch. feeding tubes and tracheotomies aren't the most pleasant things to see. what made the visits worse was that it had to have been at least 80 degrees in there. our last stop was the baldwin service center where we got to hear about all the stuff GC&SU students do there. we went into this trippy sensory room with black lights and fiber optics and chill music. we went out back and got to talk to a lot of them, which was rough at first but got a lot easier when you actually make an attempt. isn't that what life's about? being nervous about something until you try it, when you find out it's not so bad after all. i did a little growing today.
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