For my community service, I performed one major job. I played piano for the residents at the Longview Nursing Home. After the first week, we also ate cookies and drank punch together for a little while after I was done playing. If you had asked me a couple of years ago if I could ever imagine myself doing something like this, I would have thought you were crazy.
I completed my piano playing during January and February of 2001. I made arrangements with Susan Lawful, director of the nursing home, to play songs every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for two hours. Together with one of the residents, Mrs. Hilfer, I selected songs to play that the elderly citizens would enjoy and would be able to sing along with if they wanted to. I made copies of the words to the songs, also. Their favorite song was (by far!) "Pretty Baby." One of the men at the home liked that song so much that he danced along with the music every time we sang.
Playing music was good for the residents and......
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