Chapter 9 A Trip to a Nursing Home
After a period of preparation, the volunteers are preparing to go to the nursing home to comfort the elderly.
Due to the remoteness of the place, it is necessary to contract a bus to the nursing home for safety reasons.
In the process of bargaining with the driver, on the other hand, they are also in full swing training and rehearsing the show.
"You want to go out again, I haven't seen you in a few days!" Chen Jie was still immersed in the world of League of Legends, but he still didn't forget to complain about Liu Hao.
Because he was busy with the work of the student party branch during the day, he could only go back to the dormitory very late at night, and when Liu Hao returned to the dormitory, his roommates had already rested, and he was the first to go out in the morning, plus Chen Jie skipped class and stayed in the dormitory to play games in the past two days, and he hadn't seen Liu Hao for three days.
"Go to the nursing home today, together, I still need a few helpers" I had an idea, so I pulled them on the shuttle bus together, it was really difficult to be Liu Hao's roommate.
There is no doubt that Mu Xiaoling and Lin Kewen both participated in this event. Mu Xiaoling and Liu Hao were assigned to a group, and Lin Kewen was naturally assigned to the program group far away from Liu Hao, and everything seemed to be taken for granted.
I couldn't see it at first, it turned out that this product could also dance, with a slight ethnic style, and I was surprised by Liu Hao, who was a dance idiot.
"Liang Chen, come here, what are you doing?" Liang Chen handed the phone to an old man. Before coming, the hospital repeatedly emphasized that the condolence process was not allowed to lend a phone to the elderly, and Liu Hao even felt inhumane and bureaucratic for this before he came.
"What's wrong?" Liang Chen looked innocent.
"How did I tell you when I came, I can't lend my mobile phone to the old man," Liu Hao said cautiously and seriously.
Liu Hao only learned later that many elderly people are unwilling to stay in nursing homes for a long time, and will contact their children to cry under various excuses, but in fact, even if their children know that their lives are not satisfactory, they will rarely take them back, and will only try to put pressure on the nursing home.
Not only mobile phones, volunteers have gone through a series of training before coming, they are not allowed to bring food privately, let alone give food to the elderly, the food of the elderly must be controlled by the hospital, hard things are easy to cause indigestion, hot things are easy to cause physical discomfort, any violation of any of them will only be good intentions to do bad things.
Life is full of learning.
Liu Hao carried his entry SLR on his back and continued to look for the right lens, eager to record it all. Of course, at present, there are more work photos of Mu Xiaoling in the camera.
Liu Hao walked to the corner of the grove, where Lin Shuo and Xiao Zhong were playing chess leisurely, as if they had been left behind by volunteer work.
"What are you doing here? Playing chess at this time?" Liu Hao was angry that the two of them did not obey the arrangement.
"Let's go next, what's wrong" Lin Shuo's words were full of **, so Liu Hao picked up the camera and filmed this scene.
"You shoot, go to the leader to complain about me, I don't want to do it for a long time!"
"Don't be angry, don't be angry" Xiao Zhong took Lin Shuo's hand.
"You guys can do it yourself" Liu Hao knew in his heart that he and Lin Shuo had formed a bond, and they would not look up and look down in the future, but how could it be.
Liu Hao didn't pay attention to the unforgiving, and turned around and left after speaking.
"In 1950, when China entered the war, everyone in the United States was an airplane cannon, and bombers flew around their heads every day, and they didn't dare to light a cigarette at night. People are well equipped, but we still have millet plus rifles, and sometimes we can't hit it at all! Sometimes the trajectory is biased, and we are all fighting blindly."
A gray-haired, slightly chubby old man was telling the team members the story of the Korean War, and Liu Hao came forward to consult only to learn that this old man was the hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, which made everyone present awe-inspired.
The old man lived alone, in a simple house, the house leaked all the year round, and the ground was always wet. Due to work problems, the children sent the elderly to a nursing home. Of course, the specific reasons are once again tacitly known to everyone.
"What do you usually do here, and do you need our help?" asked team member Akai.
"Nothing is good here! They don't come to pick me up, and I don't want to go back, so as not to annoy people. There are chess friends here, and they usually play chess when they have nothing to do, and their lives are very good" Here they refer to the children of the elderly.
When the people present heard the old man's answer, they didn't know how to reply, they should be the same as Liu Hao, they were unhappy for this old man, but they couldn't do anything.
It's not easy when you're young, but it's really uncomfortable to suffer when you're old. Fortunately, the old man lives an open-minded and cheerful life. Since then, Liu Hao has visited the old man's home every month.
Although Liu Hao was reluctant to make all volunteer activities too social, he still took a photo with the elderly at the end of the event, so that he could influence more people and let more people join the volunteer activities.
People got on the reserved bus in an orderly manner, and the old people watched the volunteers who were ready to get on the bus in the fence.
On the bus with a peculiar smell, Liu Hao sang "When" and "She Said", with Liu Hao, a thick-skinned person, taking the lead, everyone showed their singing voices and slowly sang along. Because it was a chartered car, the driver not only did not stop it, but even hummed along with the rhythm, and the atmosphere was very lively.
The sunset shone on Mu Xiaoling's face through the window of the bus, Liu Hao took off his glasses, pretended not to see, and looked at Mu Xiaoling as a matter of course.
The event ended successfully and everyone went home.