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think to myself, "Hey, this braille thing is pretty easy." That thought was soon
crushed by the pile of rules that came along with the English Braille Code. I
felt as though there were too many rules for my brain to consume. As the
semester continued on and I learned more and more about the English Braille
Code, the more I realized how important each of the rules actually were.
While it seemed like many of the rules did not make much sense, over time
they began to become clear to me. Making sense of the rules was a very slow
process, but I eventually got there. However, I still question why the
contraction "and" cannot be used in the word Vandyke.
Finally, my semester of braille had come to an end. I was officially fluent
in braille. This was a super exciting time in my life and I often found myself
checking braille on public bathroom signs for accuracy and labeling objects in
my apartment in braille. The idea that I would eventually get to teach braille to
students and open up the world of reading and writing to them, made me
ecstatic. I felt like my dreams were coming true. That was until I was informed
that the Braille code was undergoing a big change from English Braille to
Unified English Braille.
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