昨日提及帶智障小朋友探訪的老人院,像個耆英樂園。
甫進院,幾個公公婆婆爭先恐後轉著輪椅出來,興奮地望著我們直說:「都是來探望咱們的麼?」其時小朋友正忙著把表演用的大鼓推進來,差點踫個滿懷。冷不防身邊的婆婆把鼓棍一搶,順著大鼓滾動的方向叮嚀咚嚨打起來。
節目還沒開始,公公婆婆已各自「認領」了心儀的小朋友聊個不停。猜燈謎時,看著有位長者蹣跚地走錯了返回座位的路,我正要把他叫住,卻原來他是要把多拿的一份禮物送給坐在另一端的死黨!兩個八旬老人高興地擁抱,笑得像小孩一樣天真爛漫。
聽說,這個老人院的長者感情要好得很,平素沒訪客時就自組活動。過時過節,一班老頑童唱歌做戲,娛人娛己。生活劇演膩了,還演起古裝來。年紀最大那位有長期病患,行動不便,在眾人一致推舉下演老佛爺,手口不動單憑一張貴氣的臉就可武夷天下!有一年,院舍還找來義工給大家縫製鮮艷奪目的戲服,令演出生色不少。演員不夠時,邀得院長粉墨登場,一人分飾多角,皇帝、太監、跑龍套,都是他。
又聽說,院舍有一個院友委員會,一人一票選出代表,每月收集院友意見(似乎大家最關心的莫過於膳食安排)。而院長則定期會見委員會,報告工作進展。
投入的院友、開明的院長,還有我心中幾近理想的民主制度,竟在一個耆英樂園得到體現。
各位公公婆婆問我何時再來?一定、一定,下次我會比你們玩得還要忘形!
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我都唔使擔心老咗點算.
Hello,
Read all your column today! Good job and add oil!
Compared to you, I am too lazy. Just like you, everything I studied here is too too difficult!!! However, stay in dorm for 7 days for reading will kill me!
So I need to do something else to balance and I will be employed to cover FS trip for 2 days, although I need to skip a class.
yeung: actually I also gradually got used to the routine and became a bit relaxed. and I never forgot to plan a long term-break trip to reward myself for the study, though sometimes i did carry the notes with me to kill time on trains.
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