Erdem Yigitoglu, a blind man from Turkey, was accepted to a summer international honors program at Stanford University in California. He speaks about the hesitations of locals leaving a collectivistic disability culture and entering a more independent culture in the U.S. Hear from Erdem about his experience in the U.S and his first time surfing!

For more information and transcription of this episode, visit www.miusa.org/resource/podcast/erdem.