3/2/12 - Flying Solo

Friday the 2nd was an interesting day for volunteering. Our supervisor was on vacation through the entire week, and we were charged with taking care of our volunteering all by ourselves - from setting things up to putting them away at the end of our shift. As usual, we played hangman with the ladies at The Renaissance, this time around the topic was St. Patrick's Day. It was a very fun-filled afternoon, and the ladies also learned a lot from the two of us.

During the game, I was able to notice how the older adults' episodic and semantic memory worked in comparison to ours. As we were taught in class, their episodic memory is very much still strong. Their semantic memory was actually really amazing. They had really good memory for some of the things surrounding St. Patrick's Day, though not all of them, was really outstanding.

Overall, it was a really wonderful day and I was glad to spend some time with the ladies of The Renaissance.