This Saturday I went to a Home for the Aged to do volunteer work. All the member pf volunteers get together at the subway station at the Hong mountain.. There were a lot of people some of them are workers , some of them are students. I met a friend there. John in class F, he introduced me to do the volunteer there.
After we got the name card we went to the Home for the Aged. There are almost thirty elders there they came from many different city or town in many different province. Some them have a very good body some of them are not. It remained me that no matter what you are success or not no matter you have a lot of money or not that the time is equal to everyone. Nothing is more important than a good body when you are old.
After we know the elders there we were separate into to groups one group of us would stay in the Aged for the Aged to talk to the elders can’t went out because the problems on their bodies the others of us would went out with the elders that have a healthier body. I was went out with an elder. John and a girl in college went with me.
The elder sat on the wheelchair we pushed he to a square in front of the Hong mountain zoo. The leader of us said that to have some sunshine is good for the body of the elder so it is necessary to bring the elders out once a week.
We put the elders in a line first .There were someone dance in the square. I went to the toilet and then I got lost. After I went back to the square they had put the eiders in a circle the volunteers sang at the middle some of them were willing to sang but some of them are very shy. John in ten F also sang at that time although his voice wasn’t very loud but he was really enjoyed it. I must say that the person have more education is more shy than the person who don’t have so much education because the students from university refused to sing more than the students in high school. Although our sound didn’t sounds as well as the singers but the elders really enjoyed it. At the end the leader of us sang a song too.
It was really fun to join them and share happiness with the elders and the others. During that time the elders shared their experience with us we found that all of them have their own stories and special idea of our world. Maybe it is a prove of that the time is the best teachers. Some of their stories sounds impossible in today’s world but they said that it really happened in their time we couldn’t quite understand what does it mean but it may be a important experience for us. Also I want to say if I have chance I will go there to do the volunteer work again because it is really interesting to do the volunteer work there with the elders and the people from different school or different place.