Once, I have a schedule to visit one of High School in Bambanglipuro. I was five altogether with friends of mine in one team. We were going to demonstrate final exam try out to the pupils. Having divided the classroom, we directly went to the class with a package of question and answer sheets. I got the "A" room.
As the standard operational procedure, I introduced myself, distibuted the question and answer sheets, and so on. Came to one of student who sat in the front row, he whispered to me,
"Miss, he's unable to see," he said while pointing the one who sat next to him.
"Excuse me?"
"Yes, Miss, he can't see.He's blind. Yes, he is."
"W...w...what?! Ehm, I mean, ho he does the try out, then?"
"The teachers always read him the questions."
"About the Math? Uhm, I mean, how he does the numerical questions such as Mathematics, Physics, and so on."
"Don't worry Miss, he's the master."
"???"
"He's the second runner up of National Mathematics Olympiad."
"W...wo...wowww... That's incredible!"
I let him sit near the teacher's desk, so it would ease me to read him the questions and didn't disrupt the others. The try out would be going in ninety minutes forward. I read him those eighty questions starting from Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Bahasa, and English.
"Could you read it faster, Miss?"
"Oh, okay."
What? This is Math, and he said I read too slow.
I didn't stop wondering he could answer all Mathematics and Physics questions before I finished reading it for him. Whenever there's a picture on a question, he asked me,
"Can you figure it out?"
"I'll try."
"Or...you can point my finger on the picture."
"Okay."
He was finally able to answer all the questions in sixty five minutes.
Could you imagine, how a blind guy learn at school just like the others? How he studies at home? How he's so familiar with numbers? Could he figure out how're number one, two, three, nine look like?
