Wheelchair Adventure

One of the most interesting, and challenging, assignments we've had this year was our wheelchair assign. We were assigned a list of things to do, and we had to do all of them while in a wheelchair. At first I thought it would be a piece of cake, but it definitely wasn't. The first task already proved a challenge since I didn't know where the elevator was to get to the lower floor, and once I found it I had trouble turning myself around inside it.
Everyday tasks like opening doors and getting from one building to the next were much, much harder. If a door didn't have wheelchair accessibility, like the Architecture Library, I had to maneuver around it pulling the door while trying to simultaneously moving the wheelchair out of the way. Not an easy task.

 
And I learned how much I take my legs for advantage when we had to make our way from Daggy to Carpenter Hall. My usual path was way to steep to safely roll down so we went on a bit of an adventure to find an alternative route. The path we found was manageable at first, but about halfway there the sidewalk had be torn out and replaced with gravel! I had no choice but to use my legs to scoot myself along. If I hadn't have had use of my legs I would have been stuck.

This assignment proved a lot more worthwhile than I first expected. I learned how much harder everyday tasks become simply by being confined to a wheelchair. I have so much appreciation for people who must deal with this everyday now.