The day started off bright and early with a trip to Costco to pick up a large amount of pizza for the senior prom at the West Center. Once I arrived patrons of the center quickly ask if they can help me offload the pizza which was great. Then once my group and I assembled, we began setting up decorations in the photo booth alongside the area for all the games and activities for the day. We finished early and it was so funny watching the seniors getting excited about what they were going to be partaking in shortly. Once underway, we got things started with nice music and an announcement of the prom king and queen, which I thought was so heartwarming especially when they had their first dance. I did notice however that there were not a lot of people dancing but they still seemed to be enjoying their time watching the festivities. Meanwhile at the Photo Booth and gaming area, the seniors were enjoying all the carnival themed activities that were set up for them playing ring toss to playing bean bag toss. While I was at the Photo Booth it was amazing to see how everyone was standing in line enjoying themselves as if they were waiting for some special concert to take place or to get into a club. The seniors were so excited to enter the Photo Booth they were dressing themselves up in the assortment of carnival garb they had at their disposal. Another highlight of the event was when we held the raffle and people were so excited when their number called everyone received very nice gifts. Overall I had a really great time interacting with our friends at the West Center and I was glad to hear from many of the seniors how much they appreciated what we did for them and how they cannot wait till next year. After we completed the event at West Center, the following class was a quick debrief about our thoughts and feelings about how the prom went and to my pleasure the majority of the class felt that everything went really well and the seniors had an amazing time at the event. The only negative thing that was mentioned was that the event felt as if it was rushed and the seniors did not have enough time to do everything that they wanted to do potentially due to time constraints. After that discussion, we enjoyed a wonderful array of different food people brought to class for our potluck. The last portion of our class was just going over some of the details about how we are going to plan our healthy aging project and form groups. I felt this was an amazing way to end a nice quarter.
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June 2019
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