MY FIRST DAY AT THE ELDER HOUSE

Once in a while we are supposed "stick" our heads into the elder house, greeting, chatting and playing games with our older friends in the elder home. This was the case last friday, where both parts had a lot to share.

 For myself it was the first time I accompanied the trip to the elder home, and I do not regret it a second.It was not to miss that the people there appreciated our visit a lot, anxiously waiting for us when we where arriving. Just there we hopefully started to go around looking for our old friends. 

Once found, conversations about literally everything were hold, including playing Chess, Ludo and Parchis. In my case, playing the latter, I spent time in a hard battle among some of my own and some from the older year group. In-trigged winner instincts, bad losers and lot of fun where all included. 

I was even exposed for quite hard accusations for being a cheater, since my Norwegian playing style was a bit different; it was clear that here we played after there rules.For my own it was interesting to see how all students had their proper friends among the elder; some in groups; some for themselves. 

It was, like we usually say, two generations meeting. Normally this implies talking about differences. Here it did rather imply two groups of different age, but similar characters meeting.

Everyone has more or less an be-a-like in the opposite group.The opportunity, of visiting older people in the elder home, is a great way for us students to share experience, learn about other people and ourselves, and giving someone who deserve it a nice time. Hopefully, for me and all other, the future visits are going to imply the same amount of joy as this time. 

 

By Georg Michaelis  Y13 science student