Hello from Champaign, Illinois! Whitney and I are doing our annual presentation for an animal sciences class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today, but this time, we’re adding a special video. From an email I sent to the teacher:
Mike put a Hero GoPro (is that what they’re called?) on Whitney to videotape her leading me around our urban neighborhood for a few blocks. He added written captions to explain to viewers where we’re at — in the end, it’s a city walk from a Seeing Eye dog’s point of view. Just dawned on me that maybe, just maybe you’d think this video Mike took of Whit and me working the streets of Chicago together might be good for your students to see? The link is here, you could edit it or just show a minute of it during our presentation if you think the kids would find it interesting:
http://bethfinke.com/blog/2018/01/01/mondays-mike-walk-mile-paws/
Whitney has been guiding me for six years now, and I think the video might show how confident and comfortable she seems with her work. After that I’ll go over some of the qualifications necessary to become a guide dog instructor and take some questions. The hour will be up before we know it!
I haven’t commented lately, but I wanted to say I faithfully read and enjoy your posts and Mike’s both. Thank you for educating the world and entertaining your loyal fans!
Lauren, so good to hear from you. Just the other day I was wondering about you all — comforting to hear you are still out there reading. Thanks for the compliments, high praise coming from a fine writer like you. Or would that be “a fine writer like yourself.” Hope you know what I mean!
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