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Elderly home

Last Thursday, with a Get Finternational event, we were visiting an elderly home, near Potsa, but the day was a real winter day, so maybe not the best day to walk with the old people outside. Anyway, we were to help old people to take a walk outside, because sometimes there are not enough people to carry them, so we enjoy their company. Physiotherapists of the centre had planned an activity outside, so we made it; we had to look for different places which were represented in pictures we had and then write the letters on the paper and guess the sentence or the word. There were five pictures so we walked for a few minutes with them and it was nice. The sad thing was that most of them didn´t know English, so it was a bit quiet sometimes. It was snowing and it was cold so I lent my gloves to the man I was with and it was really funny to see him with my small gloves. When we finish we discovered the sentence, the meaning was "you are lovely" or something like this, obviously in Finnish. After that, we ate the typical roasted sausages and juice. It was really short because of the bad weather but it was a beautiful experience for everyone. I believe that is really good for young people to spend time with old people because you can learn a lot of things about life, and they usually are very grateful to have young people listening. 

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