Service Learning 5/28

On Wednesday May 28th 2008 in my service-learning group, we discussed what we were planning to do with seniors. Jada and I made several phone calls to the nursing home concerning what we wanted to do there. The first phone call she made, confirmed that we were still planning to come over, what day we will be there, how many of us will attend, what we have planned, and also that there are two speaker of fluent Chinese in our group, as well as Spanish. The next phone call that I made was about what we have planned. I asked Agnes if they have the game Bingo, and she said they did and they could also set it up for us, when we're coming, which are excellent. During the last hours of our meeting, Jada and myself emailed them and asked what foods or snacks should we are allowed to bring. To name a few we, us students had pie, cakes, brownies, fruit, and other things in mind but weren't sure, so we're still waiting for a reply and the list of what we can and cannot bring in.
The whole 90 minutes was basically spent on what should we bring in for the seniors. During our trip over there, one of the ladies said to us those flowers was so nice, and she would love if we brought them in again. However, we went through ideas of how we can raise funds to buy the flowers and nothing seemed to work. We had ideas of selling water ice, cotton candy, and even smoothies, but nothing seemed to be going our way. We finally came to the conclusion that the whole flowers deal isn’t promised so maybe they’d just be happy with our presence. When we told Agnes the news, she said it was ok, and she was happy that we’d be coming. Even though we aren’t sure about the whole flower deal, we aren’t giving up just yet. The treat deal however is still planned though. We hope to bring over some treats that’ll say thank you for having us, and we really want to be here. Well I’m excited for the turnout and to see how everything goes!