My job was simply to talk to and socialize with the seniors, since they couldn’t really keep our flyers I passed out. It felt quite bittersweet knowing many of them didn’t have the cognitive skills or ability anymore to speak but the fact that almost all of them tried to was so amazing. I learned that even as their memories leave them, their personality shines through, even just a little bit. I want to work in the medical field so I feel as though this experiment really helps if I ever have...

Today, at the Lunar New Year’s festivities, I learned how to create origami fortunetellers and was able to teach many other people. Something I found so charming about the whole experience was that many of the people that came by the table were either very young or were parents. Many of the older people were commenting on the nostalgia of when they were young, making fortunetellers just like their children. When listening to their memories, it felt very wholesome. One parent said it brought...