Respect Your Elders

This past Friday I volunteered at the Senior Center with Jennifer. I thought it was going to be boring, because you know...they seem boring. I was wrong! They are so funny and i realized that old people have great personalties and a lot of stories to tell. They can talk for days, but thats fine with me. When we got there the supervisor there, Kathy, greeted us with a big smile and a "thank you so much for volunteering" before we even got started. The first thing we did there was clean the cafeteria. There were some old ladies just hanging out talking and sewing. The whole time they kept telling us how greatly they appreciated us teenagers for taking our time to come and help them, the "younger generation" some of them called us. One of the ladies was not too nice because she was talking about how we just sit on the computer all day. Well, it is true since thats what I'm doing right now. We then did some filing for Kathy since some of the old ladies cant see too well. After the ceramics class was over me and Jennifer went to fold up the tables and put them away along with the chairs. When we went into their class they were so excited to see teens helping them out. Some stopped us and told us how some of their grandchildren go to Washington too. Some ladies were also playing cards. I thought it was so cool how senior citizens go to the senior center and just hang out and do all these activities just like we do with school or the mall. How they were all talking to each other and laughing, i was amazed. I seriously thought this only happened in movies. Everytime me and Jennifer helped them with something they were so glad that we were there. This shocked me a little because they obviosly never really got help. Thats sad how these senior citizens dont recieve a lot of help from the younger people who are capable of helping them. They have other full time volunteers to help them get around but they themselves are a little old. Even those volunteers were excited to see us help them. I feel bad that i never thought of helping them myself at some other times, but im going to start helping them more so thats why i most definitely want to go back to the Senior Center again for the other reflection. Others should think about it too because they are nice adorable old ladies who need our help and greatly appreciate it.