Work

On Monday we had our usual day of work, then meetings in the afternoon with the program managers.  In the evening the entire group of 10 volunteers went out for dinner as one of the two men in the program was celebrating his 41st birthday.  The other man is 73.  Today we worked again and then Erica and I went to the Waterfront.  It is a place in downtown Cape Town with specialty shops, shopping malls and restaurants.  We just looked around and I actually bought some long safari type shorts and a safari type hat because we are going on a safari this weekend!  I will write more about that later. 

I am getting to know some of the elderly people at work.  I am finding that even if I have no amazing activities for them, many of them really just like talking to me, telling me about their lives and asking me about mine.  Several of them have some form of dementia so I am never sure if what they are telling me is really true, but it is still very interesting to listen to them.  One of my favorite ladies is one who tells me all the time how beautiful I am and then asks me to have tea with her and her parents!  She is about 75 years old.  Another one today asked me how old I was.  I said "I'm 57."  She said, "Well, you must have been dieting a lot then."???  Another one showed me her book of shorthand.  It was an entire diary filled with short hand type scribbles and she said she is writing a book and just has to type it up.  I am not sure about that but she was very convincing.