A VISIT TO AN OLD PEOPLE'S HOME
The sixteenth of June we visited "Fuentesol", an old people's home. At first
sight they seem to be sad old people who live from their memories. You have to speak to
them to know them better. They can tell you stories from their childhood.
Some of them have young souls and hearts. Other ones were sad because their families have
left them there. We saw some whose memory didn't work well, others with problem in their
bones and some with poor circulation or paralysis.
When we arrived the charge-woman welcomed us. The gardener woman showed us the garden
which had a lot of plants with a poster with its name written in. Ah! and a pound with
frogs and a tortoise.
They divided us into two groups and each group into five little ones in order to do some
activities:
- Make a poster about old peope.
- "Looking for the human treasure": To look the people written in, to dialogue
with them and to write what they said.
This was my favourite game because we spoke to old people. I'll always remember María
because she sang "malagueñas" and tipycal song "of her time".She
brought us to her room to watch her pictures. 
It was the first time that I saw such an aged person singing. She had been a teacher. We
took a photo with her.
Other one told us that he was in our Civil War, other ones prefered to speak about cinema,
sports or to say riddles and proverbs.
At the end, they invited us to an appetiser and to watch a puppet theatre.
The story and the puppets were made in other old people's home of Fuengirola.
However I saw that the old people are very well there. They don't need anything. When a
"grand" needs something, the assistants go fast.
It has been a great excursion. It has served us to live together and to know how to
respect old people
Equal, but weaker.
We can learn very much from
old people
Pupils of 6th A
June 2000