It's rather cool for end July, and we are locked in. We have two new ladies and I am not the youngest anymore ! Now I have one who is 4 years younger then I and the other one two years older. But it is still a long way to reach Gilberte who celebrated her 103 birthday !
She is amazing, if you chat with her, which she loves, I don't even realize that she could be my mother ! She goes with the time and is not against anything new, except a smartphone, she says that it is complicated, but she can call and receive calls, even video calls ! She is healthy, has nothing and is a very sympathic person.
My new Smartphone a Samsung A26 has so many security apps, that it is easier to open the safe of Mr. Trump, then to install my Bank app. I spent an hour and tried before I had asked several people here, it always stopped at the same place. Finally I went to my bank and thought they can do it easily, but no, there is something blocked and I have to call the technical Service. The technical service was not available and it was in Antwerp, so I decided to let my bank solve the problem. After all there was a bug in their program and therefore it was their job to find a solution.
I have to say I had tried out a lot of keys without knowing what it was. So did my phone meow and I couldn't find why,where and how to change the sound. My companions laughed each time when my phone meows. They say that Rosie calls me !
In the afternoon I went to my bank and the girl there told me that she had spent the whole morning to find out why my mobile didn't want to install my bank app. So when I arrived she was proud that she had found the problem and asked two of her colleagues to join and listen to her explanations. The problem was rather ridiculous, I had blocked some pubs and my bank was taken for a pub. Of course it got stuck. Now they know what they have to do, I was certainly not the last client who had this problem with a new mobile model.
We celebrated the birthdays of all those who were born in July ! They had hired a female singer and we all hoped that she was better then the man who sang for the June birthdays.
She sang all songs from the 60th and we were all thinking of our youth. She had a lot of success and and we applauded and one even asked if she could sing the song "Michèle" because he had met his late wife during this song. For me it was funny because most of the songs were from Harry Belafonte, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, etc, but translated into French and of course sung in French, and the texts were not exactly the same or completely different. It sounded so strange to me hearing the songs in French.
My bank had called me to ask for an appointment and I went, I was a bit worried that the bank's app would be having problems to be installed, but it wasn't a problem. My phone meowed happily, and the employees laughed. I still don't know, I was too lazy to check why it was meowing. It was probably incoming messages or emails. Anyway, one of the bank employees had a honking sound! So we meowed and honked happily.
After the bank suddenly I felt the need to buy shoes ! I badly needed walking shoes for outside, because inside I wear a sort of baskets. Of course if you are looking for something special you find nothing and that was the case.
When I came home I met the two girls who have rooms with a balcony and they asked me to join them. There was no activity this afternoon, so we stayed there and chatted. One was younger as I and was diagnosed Alzheimer and couldn't stay alone in her apartment anymore and the other was older had balance problems and had to walk with a walker. She was here to improve her balance and was only supposed to stay for a month. But she enjoyed it so much that she stayed ! She is already 90 but looks much younger, I thought she was in her 70 ! That's nice that we are now more and more who are still fit ! With the youngest one, she proposed to me to go for a week to Tunisia in October because there it will be still sunny and warm. I'll see !
Happy Birthday to Gilberte! She is beautiful! And, dear Ingrid, you are beautiful as well, these photos are wonderful! Your new Smartphone looks and sounds amazing! I laughed when you said it would be easier to open Trump's safe! I bet you are right! :) I am happy that the problem with your mobile phone was resolved at the bank!
ReplyDeleteI love your photos of the birthday celebrations, so nice to have people to celebrate birthdays with the seniors! I bet it was quite enjoyable and entertaining.
I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and even though my mother tongue is English (I was born here as well), I am fluent in French. But I can understand what you are saying when you hear a song or anything in a different language it can be strange!
I am sorry you didn't find the type of shoes that you were looking for, sometimes things like this happen, I know I have had this experience many times!
How wonderful that you got to spend some time with neighbours, chatting on a balcony, dear Ingrid!
Thank you so much for sharing your life and experiences here, I really enjoy your posts.
You should jump at the chance of having a travelling companion to visit Tunisia. It's only one week, and you'll have support if you need it.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a banking app on my phone, I worry that anyone borrowing my phone could hack in and drain my account, though what they'd do with that pitiful amount makes me laugh. it's less than $100. I'd like to one day be 103, or at least 100. My grandma got to 96.
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