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i volunteered for the vermont adaptive ski program.its for skiers with disabilities...mental, blindness, deafness, and handicap.i need ten hours of comm service for my school, so i thought this would be sweet.it turned into something i actually liked
it showed me that there are some people out there that are basically willing to go to any lengths to ski, and it was a whole intro thinger on it. it was a whole group of people super passionate about skiing and it made me want to share the joy n such with people that have a hard time with it.
and they make everyone tryout those sit ski things for handicapped people...
so ill tell u guys how that goes..it looks really hard
i now have wayyy more respect for those people and if anyone else wants to get involved with it tell me. they do it at killington also...
its a really rewarding experience i think
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you would be a better person if u did it for more then 10 hours. right now your just doing it for a project right? but yeah good work anyways!
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you took the words RIGHT out of my mouth. Get out of my brain!
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you are a better person than me aja
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u shud take them in the park
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it also looks really good on a resume, i have a friend who did the volunteer work for a few seasons, and when he applied for a paid position at another mountain he was basically snatched up, even when hes a crass pimply teenager.
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not for a project my school requires ten hours a year...
and i actually like the program so might just do it more than ten hours...like maybe on a regular basis
haha we do take them in the park.
there was this kid named mike that had a disease of somesort and he said his dream was to go in the halfpipe.so his instructor took him in it and he did went like three feet up the wall like 25 times that day. they started calling him halfpipe mike.
so yeah...i wanna get a kid pumped on something that simple..thats the rewarding part.i guess ill find out how much i actually commit to it.
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If you really want to feel like a better person go volunteer your time at a hospital. I have to do it for medical school, and so far have volunteered for about a year. Not only do you gain really valuable experience, but you also get brownie points for applying to competitive programs. Best of both possible worlds.
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i dont really feel like i want to be a better person...but i just thought it was different from normal stuff i usually do with my spare time
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yeah i think im going ot take my cads course this year (canadian association for disbled skiing) so that i can teach it. looks like it would be really rewarding.
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in my school we need 25 volunteer hours...which sucks
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that sounds great.
im glad its ahving an impact on someone other than the person being helped.
and yes i bumped this because, well, it's a respectable thread.
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why yes it is respectable thankyou...and i'll tell you how my blind guiding training goes on saturday...should be interesting..i bet it will be pretty hard too.well see
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is there a problem with taking them to the park?
for sure the would be problems with the blind but the deaf could sure rip in the park.
oh and my father is a eye doctor and i have met the paralympic team for australia and some of those guys are nuts some have to wear blacked ut goggles to make sure they cant see anything,
and this guy michael milton is the fastest man on 1 ski cause he is a amputee 298kmh and he is working to break 300. its nuts.
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at my school we need 60...
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i think its ill what shes doing. we saw some of them at suggy the other day and i think it takes skill. pure skill. mucho props to you aj'. you are a better person and i love you. yes yes i love you mannn tehe
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we need 0??? my school is dumb.
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My school needs 0. I don't like retards anyway.
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fuck you man.
Unfortunately alot of people are born with the short end of the stick. Im glad you did that for them, I bet it means alot.
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I do something like this in NY its called the HH Hole in the woods ranch. It is a winter and summer program. Over the winter it is totally dedicated to adaptive skiing
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it was really cool it takes sooo much trust though...holy adkfj;asldjf potatoes. trusting your life with someone you cant even see. alot of hte blind people out there are wicked funny too they are wicked confident and you basically have to make sure you dont run them into anything cuz they go really fast...you just have to stay with them and make sure they dont kill themselves.
so cool...so glad i did it. and im pretty sure im not a better person cuz of it haha it was just wicked fun
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you should bring that kid on ns.
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maybe i will...his ns name should be halfpipemike.
hed be the man.
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yah crazy noog! I love you!
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Read the post closer. She said it started as like a project but then she realized she liked it and it was more than a project to her...
And I had to have 100 hours of community service with mad stipulations to it.
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omgomgomgomgomg EASTKIKI YOUR MY HEROOOO
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when i used to ski at sugarbush i loved watching the adaptive ski program because it just shows how everyone loves the sport
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yeah for sure...thats what i really like about it. its pretty much the most laidback love for skiing ever. those people put everything in perspective for me and make me appreciate every day i have on snow.
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yea that sounds like it would be a good self esteem builder
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not really. u must be crazy if looking at disabled people makes you feel better about urself. ur a jackass.
helpin these people doesnt make u feel better about urself at all. its just a positive experience. take from it what u want.
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I was an assistant coach last winter for the central new york special olympics ski team, and I have never ever come home from skiing with such a huge smile on my face. Every single day I worked with the kids, I was given the biggest feeling of satisfaction.
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If you want to be a really good person save all of your money from being a doctor and send it to africa, then spend the rest of your days poor but helping those people by living with them and helping the. thats an even better experience and im guessing it would look good too...
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i want to volunteer for maine handicap skiing but i'm not 18. But next winter i'll do it.
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we need 40 hours.. it's ridiculous. if you don't do it, you can't graduate.
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