Community Service - Leisure Options

Day 9 16th March

During the leisure options we went to a place that reminded me almost of a kindergarten. When we walked into the building standing at the front of it we saw about a dozen women who appeared of various ages over thirty. It was decorated with a number of paintings and for seating there were a number of chairs and wooden benchs. I found myself very shy at the start but as soon as i tried to help out with them making cards and i soon lost my shyness to them and was soon talking to them freely. With some of them there was no way of telling that they were in any way intellectually disabled. Some people i couldent help but feel pity for. The reason why i felt pitiful for them however was because they were all such nice people. It was pity i felt for the condition which there disability put them in but i feel that if it had been otherwise they might have been completely different people. It was strange talking to them though. They seemed so frail and yet they also seemed like if it werent for this they would be far more energetic then anyone my age. Other then having to repeat some things every now and then they bore almost no difference to other people.
Our Wardli helping out the women at leisure options (by the way ive changed Wardlis to Wardli 4. im now with Luke,James,Ian,Phillip, and Xavier)

We then moved on to helping out some of the men with building a chicken coup. Most of the men there showed no signs of having disabilities either mental or physical and most of their time was spent from keeping us injuring ourselves when we thought it would be the other way around.

Our Wardli helping the men there


Trust me when i say that under the surface these people are hardly any different from any others. Though they may seem strange all you need to do is talk with them for a minute and youll see that they are only strange if you are afraid to talk to them.