Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness center, filled with beautiful, humble, sweet, and amazing seniors. It is difficult to come up with the right word to describe the seniors here, they are just so nice and friendly, they have this look in their eyes that just makes you smile and brightens your day when you look at them. I love coming here, if I lived closer and knew how to drive I would love to go more often and just sit there and talk to the seniors there. This past Saturday was their prom dance and YES they had a prom king and queen (so adorable). The LCS and I arrived Saturday around 12is to 1p.m. and began setting up. When I arrived there were seniors still eating lunch that was served to them there at the center, so after they finished was when setting up began. I stayed in the office with other LCS and began filling the goodie bags with bars and more chocolate. The day before Stephanie, Elizabeth, her friend and I got together at my apartment to make the goodie bags filled with travel size shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush and chocolates. We made a total of 100 goodie bags and finished them up Saturday morning with bard and more chocolates. After finishing that we went out to help finish setting everything up and also setting up the plates with fruits and cookies. After the senior began to arrive we began to pass out the plates with pizza.
As we distributed the food there was music going on and after a while some seniors even began to dance, it was the cutest thing ever (: What got my attention was the as Dr. Lewis and I were going around offering more pizza several of the seniors kept asking for more, their plates would be filled with leftover pizza to take home. That was so touching to me because it just shows that many of them maybe don’t have food to eat later on and therefor take the advantage of that and save their food or take over leftovers. It was just touching because its crazy how other people can throw out so much food when there are others out in the streets who are willing to take what others have to offer, I loved being there and serving them as their smiles brighten up and said thank you.
As we distributed the food there was music going on and after a while some seniors even began to dance, it was the cutest thing ever (: What got my attention was the as Dr. Lewis and I were going around offering more pizza several of the seniors kept asking for more, their plates would be filled with leftover pizza to take home. That was so touching to me because it just shows that many of them maybe don’t have food to eat later on and therefor take the advantage of that and save their food or take over leftovers. It was just touching because its crazy how other people can throw out so much food when there are others out in the streets who are willing to take what others have to offer, I loved being there and serving them as their smiles brighten up and said thank you.
The day went on and it was time to announce the kind and queen, everyone was so excited and those who won were even more excited. I loved seeing how excited and happy the queen was, she just wanted to take so many pictures and made herself feel like the queen she is (: It was also so cute when the king and queen got to dance and the queen was telling the king to hold her a certain way and dance a certain way, it was just the most adorable thing ever! After the dance people continued dancing but most rushed over to take pictures at the booth. While at the booth I had the opportunity to take a picture with a senior there who wanted to add pictures of the LCS to his collection, it was adorable. It was also funny because I was much taller then him so he was using his tip toes to try and reach to my height so our faces could be together to take the picture. Then came the raffle this was also so beautiful and touching because they were all so excited to win something, all the raffle prizes were amazing and I’m sure they loved them so much. Towards the end when the seniors were heading out, they got goodie bags and I think they were not expecting that so it just made them even happier. Overall the dance was AMAZING and I would love to be part of it again.
View the Royal Dance here.