From: coudgiruet@hotmail.com
To: sec3vsce.class3b@blogger.com
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:39:16 +0800
Prior to the visit, I was nervous of course. It being the first time I ever went to an Old Folks, I was not sure what to expect. A large part of my anxiety came from thinking about how to communicate with the old folks. Language was definitely one issue, especially since quite a number of the elderly spoke in their dialects. Another issue that loomed large on my mind was the contrast in mindsets we would have to deal with. We were after all generations apart, and common topics were not easy to be found. I hoped that our visit would not just be a superficial one, where we simply went there to go through the motions, for the sake of CIP hours. After all, if you were there already, why not give it your best shot? All in all, I was not in a very positive frame of mind, and I hoped that things would turn out fine. however i was proven wrong. it was indeed fufilling and made me reaslise how we should care for the old folks as singapore heads towards an inavitable aging population.
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