Reach For The Stars With Abbie

Hi guys  This is my first blog in ages. I wrote this for an amazing organisation. I hope you enjoy it. Mainstream and special needs settings: The differences  I have attended both mainstream and special needs schools and college and I have noticed there is a lot of differences between them.  For instance, when in mainstream school I was the only one who was disabled and in a wheelchair. This was hard for me to be able to keep up with my fellow peers as I found that everyone was doing their own things and I wasn't able to keep up because it was too difficult for me to join in. Therefore I was a bit isolated. However, when I started and attend a college for special needs students I felt that there were lots of people in the same position as me and I felt we were able to understand each other on another level and understand how we think and feel about situations that mattered to us. I did enjoy going to a mainstream school as I was able to feel like a typi

Hi everyone  I did this piece of writing just for a article at college, however I had a good idea to share it on my blog too!  I hope you enjoy My ski trip to Andorra I had an amazing time when I went skiing in Andorra for a week in January. Leading up to the trip, I was very nervous because it was the first time I have been on a plane or travelled outside of England without my family. However I felt really happy and safe with the staff and students who I went with, I didn't even find it scary as I had such a great atmosphere on the way there, I completely forgot about being nervous. I skied for 5 days and in them 5 days, I overcame so many fears and just took everything by both hands and went for it! It took a few days to get to grips with how the sit ski worked and I learnt how to move it to side to side using my body by leaning to one side and then to the other to get it going and carry on moving. Then I learnt by controlling how much I leant my body weight