People Choose Their Personal Goals
Spring 2004
My name is Jeany Shui-Jean Pak. In the years I have been with the Association I always wanted a computer of my own. For a very long time - the last seven years - I was putting it on my Personal Support Agreement but it never happened to me till this past Christmas. Ill give a brief history so you understand how the outcome of "people choosing their personal goals" became a reality for me. I never thought in a million years that this dream would come true for me.
Getting back to my Christmas story, I thought it would be a very sad and lonely Christmas without my mom and my nephew, who have both passed away, here with our family. I went to my very close, best friends house for Christmas for our annual Christmas gift exchange with some chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate for a snack. We took turns. My friends Harold and Geoff Sutton went first, and then I went to open my gift which was in a very huge box, so I just starting ripping the Christmas paper like a five year old would do.
And to my surprise, I got my very own computer to use! I was really shocked and very happy that I finally did get one of my personal goals. I dont have Internet yet and Im just waiting for a long time, but I go to the LACL office once a week for the Self Advocate Council Executive Committee meeting and use our computer there because it is free for us.
My sister Wendy came home for a visit and installed some more computer programs on my computer for me. But I still cant find Mah Jong, a computer game that I like.
So Im really happy that I have my own computer now.
My success shows that our dreams can happen to anyone when supports are in place to do so. I would like to thank very much the Sutton Brothers and Suzanne Perrier-Clark for helping a lot to achieve my dream.
Jean Shui-Jean Pak
The Advocate for Community Living
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