Day Twenty

Friday was a very hectic but also humorous day. I stationed myself by Audrey and Mary for the majority of the morning. While I sat there, a nice lady came in to do a horticulture lesson with the residents. We made a big, long table for everyone to sit at together. We laid down newspaper, gave everyone a bin and filled them up a little bit with some dirt. Everyone got pots and was told how to plant their plants. At this point, everything was going well. That was until a nurse looked over and saw this man Steve eating the dirt. She ran over and said "Steve stop! You can't eat the dirt! Spit it out!" Then he proceeded to say "Well why the hell not!" This made us all laugh a bit. Steve is a very laid back guy who keeps to himself most of the time. However, try and take his food away and he will get very angry. The nurses did get him to spit it out and rinse so everything was going well again. Then this other lady started to eat the dirt. Only when she was asked to spit it out, she did. But the thing was, she took it upon herself to spit it out on this lady Rose I work with. She wore a pretty yellow skirt to work that day and it had dirt all over it at that point. We felt bad but she was laughing so we all started laughing. Lesson learned, don't take "food" away from Steve and don't wear nice clothes to Woodcrest.