Senior Smiles - Living there

Back to my little world.... oh, how I love this place... just the feeling of opening this page already makes me feel happy!

Oh, well. Today I got to know my senior, at Senior Smiles. The facility is great, and the employees (so far) seem to be very nice. I guess it's kinda expensive to keep someone there. But they have everything and their rooms seem to be nice.

But I'm feeling that it's going to be a little hard in the beginning for me. My senior, Mary Jan, loves her programs at the facility and their timetables don't fit in my schedule. I've got to figure something out.

But I won't let the first impression put me down! No way!
Let's see what happens next week. I'll try in the morning, around 9. If it doesn't work, then I see.

By the way, I think it must be hard to end life in a facility for seniors... I understand that some of them can't take care of themselves and so it's better for them being there, but... life there seems so boring! I got the schedule of events for the month and I was revising it to find a loop, a hole in the schedule where I could fit myself to visit her and... I just got a sad feeling when I saw it. It seems so... equal. Everyday. Every week. So boring.

I decided for myself that I don't want to go to a facility for seniors, unless I'm not able to dress myself, go alone to the bathroom and eat. Otherwise, I prefer struggling for my life. It seems to me that this is a way of being more "alive", more "into life". I felt pity for those people there. It's like if they were children again.

Hope my first impressions vanishes with the visits and I can build friendship there.