Because I'm in honor classes and want to go to an ivy league school, volunteering is on the summer to do list. I would love to volunteer at the humane society helping animals but I'm too young, so I did something today that was not better but really fun. I volunteered at the senior citizen center and I loved it. As a blogger I am going to enclose a complete schedule of today's events.
7:00 to 7:45 AM
Woke up and got dressed. Headed to town. We we're late, as usual.
8:05 AM
Arrived at the center. We started helping getting things ready.
8:10 AM
Started setting up. For example, setting out water, making coffee, and starting paper work (not me).
8:45 AM
Food arrives. They start to package it to go out to the home delivered people. I couldn't help because I'm not certified. Oh well.
9:00 AM
Home delivered meals go out in a big van with the counties name o it, a transit bus. Also people start arriving, maybe about 5 have arrived.
9:30 AM
More people have arrived. Maybe about 12 now. Things are slowing down. People who are here are eating cookies and playing cards or doing a crossword, reading a magizine.
10:00 AM
Everyone is here now. About 20 people are here. Things get quiet. They start singing. Someone is playing the piano, a really old piano. They don't care as long as it makes music, they don't care.
10:10 AM
Devotion time. They start with a devotion. Someone reads a passage they found. They all laugh at the funny passage. The they sing another song. These people really listen to the lyrics. Something we all need to do. They really love God. Do we? Do we really know God like the seniors I spent the day with? I think not. The song is over and they all applaud. They then read some scriptures and pray.
10:30 AM
Baseball time, senior style. I was the ball picker upper or bean bag picker upper, because they used beanbags as ball. They played for like 10 hours it felt like, but in reality it was about half an hour. They would throw the balls and whatever number they landed on that was the base (chair) you went to. Like regular baseball, but in a safer way. They would throw the beanbags into a special made board with two point OUT holes, two one point holes, two two point holes, and two three point holes. They had to teams. No team names though.I'll name them myself. One could be team D and the other team L. Team L won, by a homerun, 14 to 13.
11:00 AM
Lunch time. Baseball is over and everyone has worked up an appetite for a good lunch, BBQ beef riblet, baked beans, toss salad, salad dressing, hot spiced apples, milk, tea, or water. Yum. The director of the senior center calls it a McRib sandwich. So not that, but its looks good enough to eat. I think I'll wait and get a burrito from Taco Bell.
11:30 AM
Lunch is over and the seniors clean up and head home. Some drive their own cars, some carpool, and some ride the bus.
12:00 AM
Everyone is all gone and cleaning is being done. The kitchen is being cleaned by one person, counters wiped, floors inspected for fallen food, and all the extra food is gone. Another person is cleaning the tables, wiping down the coffee station, and looking for fallen spills in the entertainment area/eating area. All the inspections are check, check, check. It was Friday so quitting time was at 12:00.
Baseball, check. Lunch, check. Roll call, check. Seniors safely on bus, check! My day with the seniors was educational. It taught me how to have fun and to play baseball senior style!
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