About a week ago we went back to the retirement home in Wachenheim. We decided to go back once more because we enjoyed the time in the retirement home and we wanted to add something to our CAS project. The people in the retirement home were happy to hear form us and we were welcome to come again. We decided to go around Christmas time. School was still going on but we asked for permission to do our CAS project.
The time we agreed on to go to the retirement home was 9:30. We emailed and phoned with the retirement home before we went back.
This time we baked Christmas cookies with the elderly. The elderly can decide on their own if they want to come or not. Luckily many of the elderly showed up. The recipes for the cookies were not hard so many of the elderly would be able to participate in this activity. We made three types of cookies: glazed hearts, star cookies with chocolate and pine trees with sugar on top.
We started of with making the dough and letting it rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
After we let it rest in the fridge, we rolled out the dough to make figures out of it with the molds.
After that was done, they went into the oven to bake. In the mean time we spoke to the elderly and listened to their stories. Not all of the elderly are able to function good any more and that is sometimes hard to see. I had a lot of fun with an older woman whom I baked cookies together with. She told me all about the German traditions and about what kind of cookies she baked when she was younger. I learned from her that baking cookies before Christmas is an old tradition and that everyone used to do it. You would learn to bake from your mother or grand mother.
When the cookies were done baking, we decorated them.
After everything was done we helped cleaning everything up. By the time we were done cleaning and putting away the cookies it was lunch time for the elderly. We helped walking them to the room where they had lunch.
I had a nice time with the elderly this day and it was fun baking cookies with them. I had definitely a nice experience.
we left the retirement home about 14:00.
