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What is important the eyes cannot see, truly we can see only through our hearts.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Stories from the school

With kind consent of the authors we prepared for you a few stories of both our caretakers and the blind. In case you too want to contribute, pls send your story to info@vycvikvodicichpsu.cz.

How I move around my home

Pavel Nedvěd / I have already admitted that my travelling outside home or orientation inside are not outstanding. I am going to talk about the inside today. It is not going to be a list of housework, that's what self-helping manuals are for. More likely I am going to share some of my personal experience.
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How I move about my city

Pavel Nedvěd / However it is, I must unfortunately admit, it is far from elegant. Sometimes unfortunate bypassers trip over my stick and nearly fall, sometimes I don't manage to stop myself in front of an obstacle and my head gets slashed or bruised. Then I secretly curse the lamppost or the traffic sign that is to blame, and cry over my fate.
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Walks and tramps

Pavel Nedvěd / Were they walks or tramps, those lovely activities I devoted myself to until I was about 58 years old? They might have been tramps, walks are not too risky, they are shorter and the pace is more comfortable.
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Diaries of a caretaker – Pavel

Pavel David / Bringing up a puppy, that is supposed to become a guide dog within about a year and a half, seems to be a good tool for determining the character of its caretaker, his family and friends.
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Are guide dogs sufferers?

Světlana Karfusová / Sometimes I hear this comment while I'm with my dog on a tram. Because I'm the very one concerned – I am blind and I have a guide dog – it makes me wonder, if the sufferer is really my dog who is with me all day or the others that are locked at home all day. Let's just employ the principles of logic here.
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