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Andrew Meyer, 19, has been blind since birth. He was abandoned in an alleyway in the Philippines when he was a baby, and was adopted by an American couple with four children.
Early on, Andrew learned that he could see, just not with his eyes. He learned to not only walk with a cane, but to run in track meets.
When he decided to go to college, Andrew spent the summer learning to navigate the Oregon State University with his guidedog Racine. This first person collage piece details a day during Andrew's first year of college.
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Andrew Meyer, 19, has been blind since birth. He was abandoned in an alleyway in the Philippines when he was a baby, and was adopted by an American couple with four children. Early on, Andrew learned that he could see, just not with his eyes. He learned to not only walk with a cane, but to run in track meets. When he decided to go to college, Andrew spent the summer learning to navigate the Oregon State University with his guidedog Racine. This first person collage piece details a day during Andrew's first year of college. This story has not aired on any network.
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ANDREW AND RACINE
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Animals play an important role in many of our lives. For people with visual impairments, guide dogs provide entr?e into the world. The relationship between a guide dog and a person who is blind is based on trust and responsibility. Nineteen-year-old Andrew Meyer has always been independent. He ran track in high school and was on the swim team. When he decided to go to college, Andrew adopted a black Labrador named Racine to be his guide dog. They trained for six weeks to learn how to work together. Then Andrew and Racine mapped out the campus at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Here is the sound collage of their time together during their first month at college.
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SOUND: WALKING
ANDREW: Good girl! There you go! Racine, forward? Racine, forward?
SOUND: WALKING, DOOR OPENING
ANDREW: Welcome to my room. Sit! S...
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Timing and Cues
IN: SOUND: WALKING
ANDREW: Good girl....
OUT: ....Racine as long as I can, yeah, definitely.
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Posted on November 14, 2003 at 10:42 AM | Permalink
Review of Stories1st: Andrew and Racine
A day in the life piece from a blind college student and his guide dog. The listener gets a sense of how scary it must be to negotiate busy roads without sight, as the trucks and cars thunder along en route to classes; and how being sightless throws up barriers beyond the obvious visual ones.
This is a free flowing piece, which has some intriguing parts, but also left this listener feeling a bit disoriented and wanting to know more. Despite the personal nature of this piece I was left without a true sense of the subject or his dog, or the bond between them.
It's length makes it amenable to airing with other pieces as part of a show on disabilites, student life or animals. HW.