Hebrew Senior Life #2

This week, the biggest problem Amelia and I encountered, was dealing with simultaneous activities going on at Hebrew Senior Life. One of the two sessions we scheduled to take pictures last week, was competing with free food for the seniors. Obviously, we knew we were not the priority in this situation. 

Due to this issue, we had far fewer participants who showed up to have their pictures taken. Many also planned to come after getting the food, so we needed to stay the entire time despite not having much to do towards the middle of our time slot. This is just going to add to the make-up date issue that we are going to encounter/need to begin talking to Gale about (which we will on Monday). 

Other than this, things have been going rather smoothly. Amelia and I have come up with a solid system during our hours in HSL, as well as our hours spent in class. During our time at the senior center, I check people in, check their names off, and write their apartment number on a sheet of paper. I then send them off to the hallway where Amelia talks to them and has their photo taken. During class, (it usually takes about a block and a half) we go through the pictures, deleting all but the single best one of each person, edit the pictures, crop them to the correct size, and name them so that it will be easy for Hebrew Senior Life to organize them and put them to use as quickly as possible!

This week we plan to have done our first run through of all the residential floors, and come up with a schedule to begin makeup sessions. We are definitely on track for success in this project.