For this week’s learning engage group, we went to Casa de Manana to meet with the seniors there to get to know them. Before we started the LEGs, we all recapped with our healthy aging project members to see what else we need to do. The meeting was productive and we were able to finalize a few things to make sure that the seniors at the West Center have the opportunity to get a free self-care service we will provide. I am very excited to jumpstart this project and would like to see how the event turns out! For our LEG at Casa, there were two of the same seniors that showed up the first time we visited Casa. This time they brought some few documents, pictures, and books to share with us. We divided ourselves into two big groups and chatted with them. I was in the group with the female senior that travelled all over the world and has been to almost all states besides one. We asked her about her travels and how she was able to travel while taking care of 9 kids. She told us how she never expected her life to turn out the way it did, but she was happy to be able to experience so much and get a more worldly view and understanding of different cultures. It seems like her life was not always this luxurious because when she was raising 9 children, she was living paycheck to paycheck. From all the stories she told us and from the little snippet that I know about her life, it seems like she was always optimistic, happy, and open to new things. It seemed like no matter what stress she experienced, she tackled them with a happy, positive mindset. I do think that this may be one reason why some people may live longer than others because stress and negative thoughts are a deadly killer. I am glad that we were able to interact with the seniors on a deeper level this time around.
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