Butterfly Time

As a special educator for the blind, I was accompanying a fourth-grade class on a field trip to a science museum. I was assigned the care of two children, one of them blind. My job for her was to give verbal descriptions of the various exhibits. It was a long day because the blind child couldn't touch most of the exhibits. I was becoming very frustrated by what I felt were my woefully inadequate descriptions, although I noticed that the two girls were having a great time.