Visit to Uncle Lee! ^^

Hello everybody!! :D

On Saturday, we (me, 小 Jos and Shurui) visited Uncle Lee. As usual, he was very happy to see us (especially we are all girls, hahahah), so he asked us to try his bee hoon while we chat with him. I think Uncle Lee is one of the few elderly that can speak good Chinese  so there is no difficulty in communicating with him actually.

But as everyone know, Uncle lee is learning how to text sms, so we kinda teach him how to use the punctuation and emoticon. well, it was meant to help him to express himself better but he picked up the use of exclamation mark and angry face very fast for the special intention.*smirk* From there we realise that when he say ‘恭喜发财', '新年快乐' and '事事如意’ etc. in normal days he actually mean something else, hahaha. i find this really cute!! This is Lee style of  “骂” 人!!

However, there are also other things that leaves me a deep impression. During the conversation, he asked us how many years are we left in T.H.E Seniors, we told him this is just our first year so we still have a long long way to go. Then uncle lee said usually when volunteers graduated, they seldom come and visit him other than the few exceptions.

I feel rather sad for this as he is actually counting down the days that we can accompany him. People come people go, I wonder how the elderly cope with the feeling of sending off the older batch that has already build up years of relationship, and welcome a new batching of people that is going to accompany them for a new journey.This is a cycle that will probably go on and on and what we can do as new people is perhaps bringing them more joy and happiness, so as to let them know that there will always be a group of people who cares about them. ^^

-Luting :)