Every now and then I am required to go to Palolo Chinese Home to for fill the SECR, (Spiritual, Ethical, Community, Responsibility), credit requirement for my Chinese class. So far I've gone to one out of the three dates for my visit to Palolo Chinese Home, with two more dates coming up for me to go. My first visit was on the Saturday before Valentines Day. My group and I prepared some origami arts and crafts activity for the elderly people to do. Since Valentines was coming up, we made origami hearts and other things such as cranes, frogs, etc. Also we prepared and made some Valentines cards for the elderly people. Afterwards we played Bingo for the rest of the time. I felt everyone who wanted to participate had fun and all of us students did too. The week after Function is my next visit that happens to be Saint Patrick's Day. I happen to be the group leader so I need to plan what we could prepare to play with the elderly people.
So far from what I observed is that the people at Palolo Chinese Home are elderly people that are alone with family on the mainland or just there for daycare. For us going to there, it is our job to make their stay a more happier and lively stay. Talking with some of my group mates on our first Palolo Chinese Home visit, I realized that some elderly people did not want to participate. So I was thinking that this next time I would give the elderly people options to what they would like to do. Such as either playing games such as hangman, two truths and a lie, or pictionary, arts and crafts, or maybe nothing at all. One of my friends told me that elderly people like the control of what they want to do, so that giving them options is something that I need to consider in doing in every thing we plan to do with them.
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