Sunday, November 8, 2009
. Grace - T01
11:51 AM
Dialogue in the Dark. From the name, it's doing something in the DARK. Sound scary to me in the first place. Dark is uncertainty, unknown and lost to me.
Before the tour, we had briefing on DiD and what is it all about. Dining in the dark, walking through the dark. I wonder, how was it like to experience it. How we will we know the obstacles in front of you, how will we know how much money did we actually hand to the cashier and many other hows and questions. Basically, I was super excited about the tour.
On the tour day, I was trying out how to differentiate a 2 dollars note and a 5 dollar note. I tried to figure out but still did not manage to do it. We had white cane for us to aid in the tour, and my initial imagination of the tour is, we had to either be blind-folded or something else. I didn't except that the room is so dark until I place my own hands in front of my face and still did not manage to see it. The tour guide was great, very sensitive to the surrounding. He's able to tell that we are far apart or we are afraid from the sound of our voice. He made sure that we are safe during the tour. Being a 'blinded person in the dark' we had lot of disadvantages, we are uncertain, unfamiliar to our surrounding. That's this part when I had to walk in the front and find a bench, it took me so long to find it. Got no idea how the bench looks like, where is it and how big it is.
The whole experience was great, having a chance to be a blind person, experiencing the journey of daily life. Also it made me know that we can't take things for granted and know more about visually disable person feeling. I also really thank God to give me the sight, to see things and how beautiful the world is, even though the tour is just a temporarily blindness but imagine those who never ever see this world before. How do they picture Merlion as? How do they picture the surrounding they are in? It really makes me wonder...
GRACE.L
T01
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