Hello world and welcome to Becoming Best Friends where I'll be making regular posts about my experiences at my Service Learning site for this Spring 2016 semester! I chose to do my Service Learning at Best Friends Adult Day Care at Bridgepoint at Ashwood Grove where I get the opportunity to work with participants with Alzheimers and other forms of dementia. The reason why I chose this organization is because while doing research on this organization I thought that the idea of becoming "best friends"with the participants was a really interesting and fun approach that I'd like to be a part of. Basically, the Best Friends Approach is about building a strong relationship with the participants and learning about their history and background to get closer and relate to the participants.
I was super excited for my first day at Best Friends and was not disappointed in the slightest. All of the participants there were extremely friendly and seemed really excited to see me there and kept giving me compliments. In addition to that, all of them seemed to be good friends and would make jokes with each other. During my first day we spent the morning before lunch gathered in a room playing the game Rephraze, a game where common sayings have been rephrased into different things and you have to guess what the original saying was. Although I wasn't able to stay for much of lunch I did get to help with it a little bit before leaving for the day. Even though I won't be able to go back for another week I'm already looking forward to it!
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