experimental learning

To start off my experimental learning I began by waking up on Monday and putting on a blind-fold. I wanted to know what it was like to try and get ready for the day being blind. My room was really messy and I had to walk slowly over to my closet. I had a general idea what drawers I had put types of clothes in but I had no idea exactly what was on each shirt. I tried to feel the lettering on the shirt, but I really had no idea what I was putting on. It was hard to know if I looked presentable. It took a lot more time to get ready than normally, it took about 8 minutes. I ran into another problem when I could not find my wallet. I thought I had put it on my desk but I was not for sure. I spent five minutes feeling around trying to locate it. Somehow I got lucky and accidently stepped on it; it must have fallen off the desk during the night. The biggest problem I kept running into was trying to figure out what time it was. I didn’t want to be late to class and I had no idea what time it was. I knew my alarm went off at eight o clock but after that I was just guessing what time it was. Another big problem I ran into was when I tried to make a phone call to a friend. When I call someone I normally just scroll to my phone book and click on their name and it calls them. I had no clue what to do because I didn’t know his number off the top of my head. I could make an educated guess of where the numbers on the phone were but I did not know what to type. In the end I could only keep up being blind for thirty minutes. Experiencing this made me have a lot of respect in people who are blind. I didn’t know how organized they had to be. They probably know where everything they own is. Also they must have a really good memory. I never even thought those were involved in being blind and I find that amazing.