AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND MARCH

 

 

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WEEKEND   

Saturday was a nice day ! In the morning I did my blogging, had my lunch and then I went with a friend to the Waterloo theater where once a month there is a play for the seniors in the afternoon to a special price. in the evening you have to pay the full price. 

This time it wasn't a play, but an impersonator who mimicked the voices of famous singers. He was quite short and very slim, but what a voice!!! Incredible. He imitated French singers, but also Pavarotti, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, etc. 

At first, he had a little trouble turning the seniors into screaming and whistling teenagers, but he managed it. People remembered their youth, threw their arms in the air despite arthritis, osteoarthritis, and back pain, and tried to sing along, and some men even managed to whistle. We rediscovered our youth, remembered how we used to dance, and the hall was packed, not a seat was free. Outside, we all talked enthusiastically about the show, met old acquaintances, and I think it did everyone good. The sun even came out for half an hour.

We would have liked to have a drink and a chat somewhere, but my friend's cat was sick and she naturally wanted to go home immediately. So I went to join my group and had coffee with them and told them about the show. They had also played a game, but it wasn't very successful; it was the new animator we didn't like her very much. She has absolutely no sense of what games are suitable for older people. She makes riddles about St. Patrick's Day, even though this generation has no idea about St. Patrick, or just English songs and has them guess the singers, forgetting that the residents who were young in their 60s and 70s don't understand English. Or she has us fill out a paper with boxes in different colors as if we were three years old. Nobody participated. I don't know where she learned her job, but she's really incompetent. 

On Sunday it was really cold and the green grass was white when I opened the window and looked outside.  I didn't feel like going out anyway. Since none of our activity leaders were there, I suggested Bingo or Uno, which everyone likes. Many had gone out or had visitors, but there were still eight of us. It was fun as always, and afterwards, while we were having coffee, a discussion broke out between two of them that had me laughing so hard I almost died. The others didn't get it all but admired the "scientists".

It started when our "know-it-all"resident, who used to be a chemistry and physics teacher, asked a former doctor if he knew which chemical formulas made up the human body. Then it started, everyone trying to be right, but how they got from a chemical formula to the atomic bomb and then to the Bible, Torah, and Quran, I don't know. In any case, they were like two fighting cocks, but they calmed down after a while. I was laughing so hard that I went back to my room, they were talking such nonsense and mixing everything up. They are not exactly the youngest once, in their 90th but they have well aged and are in good shape. 

 

So my afternoon was really amusing and after supper I watched the News and then went to bed.  

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