TF LEaRN Week 2 - Volunteer in Anglican senior centre

September 28th TF Volunteer in Anglican senior centre

     This was a special volunteer experience for me. It's my first time really went to the elderly‘s home. At first, I am a little nervous. I thought the elderly's home might be messy cause they live alone and they were too old to do the housework everyday. However, when I opened the door of our first elderly' home, I was surprised. The house was clean and the environment in the house represented the culture of India. The elderly was a cute Indian grandma. She was enthusiastic towards us. What she need was clean all the windows, the toilets and the kitchen. Soon, we finished all the work and had some games with the grandma.

     After our first cleaning job, we continued to a Malaysian grandma' s home. Like the previous one, her home was clean and tidy. She even introduced the Malaysian culture in her house to us. After we finished simple cleaning, she kept saying thank you to us. But at that moment, I thought I should say more thank you to her. Thanks her, I can experience a Malaysian style house, I could understand more about Malaysian culture in Singapore.

     I found I had lots of misunderstanding about the elderly who live alone. In the past, I thought the elderly living alone were all very poor and the house they lived in had very bad condition and they hated to interact with others. By this chance, I could really enter a elderly's house and knew what was the real life of the elderly living alone. I really impressed by the Singapore government's rule to the elderly, they gave the elderly a very good place and environment to spend the rest of their life. Hope Taiwan government can learn from the Singapore, giving our elderly such a good care.