Justine Harrington

Justine embarked on Travel Training a year ago aiming to be able to access her local shops independently. Justine is visually impaired and the walking route to the shops is approximately 15 minutes long and quite complicated. After several months of walking the route together I started shadowing Justine and although she became very frustrated if making a mistake she persevered and is now able to walk the route independently. Justine is currently using Travel Training to help learn her second journey accessing the bus from her home in Pitsea to Basildon Bus Station.

After a discussion about poetry I challenged Justine to write a poem themed 'travelling'.

Here is Justine's poem.

Basildon Bus Station Basildon bus station the right destination. Always the place for inspiration. Waiting for a bus on a cold, damp seat, old and young people stamping their feet. The squeaking of prams and kids whining for food, while the parents are hardly in the right mood. Then on the bus people joke around and chat, at some idiotic thing - what's so funny about that? It goes on and on It's driving me crazy, The bloke behind me looks like Patrick Swayze. Finally the journey comes To a halt, and if you feel sick the Drivers at fault. The bus goes round the corner and begins to fade, people go round the shops like a crazy parade. So when you've reached here you're at the right station, apart from all this there's no other explanation!