I took the challange

Alright, so my main goal in life is to live it to the fullest. Mainly I want to do things that are unique and will make my life full and enjoyable. So that is one of the purposes of this blog to show you all my adventures.

To start, yesterday Marcie Glad and I decided to take the challenge of adopting a disability for a day. At precisely 9:32 a.m. I met Marcie at the RB at the Disability awareness booth and we signed up to have a walking impairment (AKA we just really wanted to ride in wheelchairs.) So after we latched our backpacks to our chair on wheels, we headed to the top floor, via elevator, so Marcie could have her professors interview with Dr. Tanaguchi. After about 5 minutes we realized that this was not as easy as it looks, maybe we are a little weak in the arm area, I don't know.

After the fantastic meeting we thought it would be a good idea to head over to the Tanner building, little did we know that construction would completely prevent any progress to the next building, so we decided to take the big hill between the RB and the Tanner. Now I know what your thinking, that hill is about a 0.2 grade (almost flat), but when you are in a wheel chair things are much different. Not only was it uphill, but we had the disadvantage of a right side downward slope. So we inched ourselves up the hill laughing so hard we were almost crying. Finally... we made it to the top! YEAH! What usually takes about two minutes took us a half an hour and our arms were like jello.

Another goal of ours was to use the handicap toilet, which by the way you can only fit one wheelchair in one bathroom at a time. Also something we never thought of I'm sure you never thought of was what happens to your pants from the wheelchair to the toilet? How do you take them off? It seemed neigh impossible so we may have cheated just a little and used our little legs. Woops!

Anyway, the whole experience was amazing, I have never though about time restraints of using a wheelchair or the fact that in order to open a door you have to throw yourself into it. All I can say is as always I am grateful for life and the ability to have such amazing opportunities to learn.

P.S. The free t-shirt for the challenge was also a highlight of the day :)