Sarah Blake LaRose

We are done with our first route. Today my partner and I walked the route without guidance from the instructor. This meant that not only did we have to remember all the instructions for walking through this place where we don’t live, which we have only been learning for the past three days, but anything strange that happened along the way was our responsibility to handle. At some point I heard a nasty growly dog across the street. Of course, I had no idea whether it was on a leash or not. I should say that I am very afraid of dogs that growl. So I did what I was supposed to do: I told pepper, “Leave it.” After I figured out that she didn’t care about it, I decided that she could care about getting me away from it so that my heart would stop the wild pitter patter. So I made her go faster. When I couldn’t hear it anymote, I told her what a good girl she was. Later we sent by a yappy little dog and she didn’t care about that one either.