Every week in the past Lau and Andrea did not even know one another and at the moment they cook dinner collectively, go for a stroll infrequently and even do the procuring on the identical time. They are roommates and all due to an commercial signed by Lau’s information canine, a 34-year-old blind girl who presents lodging to college students on the University of Seville.
Every 12 months Laura Mejías enrolls within the Student Coexistence program, however this time the course progressed and nobody requested to remain at house. For this motive, in December, he determined to put up an advert in a number of colleges… however signed by his information canine: “Hello, how are you? I introduce myself. My identify is Abby and I’m a information canine. I’ve put this letter there to let you know that my proprietor loves you. she wants. She would not see something.”
The message supplied free lodging and hid a small lie. Lau would not want anybody, she was simply searching for firm. “It’s not the identical to be alone,” says Lau. And so every week in the past Andrea González, a younger journalist who had simply arrived from Colombia to review a grasp’s diploma in Political Communication on the University of Seville, arrived at her door, the place she didn’t know anybody. “I noticed the advert and it actually touched me,” says Andrea, “as a result of I additionally love canine.”
Announcement revealed within the University of Seville.NIUS
They instantly met to speak and naturally the information canine got here to the appointment. “As quickly as she noticed Andrea, she greeted her with some licks,” a check for Lau that this was going to work. Days later, the 2 started residing collectively. “The very first thing Lau instructed me was what she did not want from her,” says the younger Colombian, “she did not have to deal with her or her canine.”
studying to stay collectively
Lau’s independence has shocked Andrea. Not solely how she strikes round the home, but additionally once they exit collectively for a stroll or procuring. “She has a psychological map to find herself,” says the younger scholar, who had by no means lived with a visually impaired particular person earlier than. From there, the 2 are studying to stay with a incapacity that they already share. “I educate her to verbalize extra,” Lau says, referring to specifying when she says phrases like right here or there.
Andrea, for her half, is studying to take heed to how Lau speaks to her along with her arms. “She makes use of them to inform me how far to pour the water or the place to chop one thing.” She can be cautious to place the knives down when she scrubs them. “I’m studying to do issues along with her in thoughts,” says Andrea. Because on this coexistence day-after-day is a lesson and the to start with is empathy: whether or not they see it or not, two stay on this home.