Day Three

Day three and I think I've got the whole routine down. We start off the morning with cleaning up after breakfast. Then, we give out coffee and cookies. After, we have to get everyone into a big circle to start off the big discussion. It begins with going through what yesterday was and what today is. Then, we discuss whats going on in the world by going through the days newspaper a bit. Once that is finished, we get the residents to exercise a bit. The majority of them are in wheelchairs so its limited with what we do. It mostly consists of upper body stretches. By the time all of this is finished, its time to start getting everyone set up and ready for lunch. I help out with handing out lunches, feeding some residents and cleaning up afterwards. By the time we run through all of this, its about 12:30 and time for me to head out. It doesn't seem like a lot, but we do have a good amount of residents on the third floor which makes it time consuming to do each activity. We were even able to get some singing in today which was great because the majority of the group sang along. And it wasn't like when you try to get a bunch of little kids to sing and their all off pace. Instead, it was very nice because everyone sang together. It was sort of like a peaceful moment of bonding for all of the residents and everyone else there. Even for the people that don't normally get along.