i love old people

today was totally amazing. i went to a convalescent home with amy and danielle. now i love old people, but it is sometimes hard to just walk into a room and start a conversation, but that is what i had to do. i'll get back to that later, though. for - i don't know- maybe thirty to fourty minutes, i walked in a circle around the nursing home. she couldn't talk, but you could tell she knew what she wanted, because she definitely knew which direction she wanted to go. i also got to decorate for halloween for awhile. most of the time i spent talking to people, though. some conversations were hard, with lots of pauses. others, you couldn't understand one word, you just smiled and hoped you put the right remark in the right spot! there was one lady, alice, who was amazing. i talked to her for an hour and a half, i think. i heard some of the same stories a few times :) but she was really nice. here is what i got from her, though. she has brain cancer, or a tumor, or something like that, and is in the nursing home. she is very talkative, as most of them are, and would love to spend all day talkin to a nurse. she tod me this, though. she said that she never tries to talk to a nurse more than she can help, because she knows that their are other patients who need her more! how amazing is that? she was full of life and hope and happiness, in a place where i would probably be pretty depressed. oh, and i think she had 12 siblings, though i'm not sure if it was her or a different lady. but yikes! that is so many- and especially if you think that they were probably born before or durring the great depression. anyway, alice made my day, and is one of my new heroes :)

I want...

to paint flowers, but I don't know how!!!