#3 - Daily Procedures at my Internship

(Saving this on here, as I probably have to walk people through an average working day at an internship fair.)

Internship at a daily retirement home

 

• 08:00 AM: Arrive at the facility, get tested on monday and thursday, measure temperature to check for feaver, write down when you came and your temperature on the registration paper. Until 10:00 AM the Old people arrive (bus, relatives..) get registered and get ''escorted'' to main hall for breakfast. Interns do the dishes, help out in the main hall filling up water or food or help at the front registering the old people that arrive.
• 10:00 AM: 30 Minute warm-up, used for gymnastics, dancing or story-telling in the main hall. Interns participate in these activities or do the dishes.
• 10:30 AM: Old residents get split into two groups and do the group activities that are available that day. As an example; one group decides to stay in the main hall and play bingo, while the others go and play ''Mensch ärgere dich nicht'', a popular German Boardgame.
• 11:30 AM: 30 Minute of free time. The residents mostly just wait in the main hall at their tables and talk with one another, waiting for lunch to be served. Interns mostly just wait until they can serve lunch, maybe fill up water. The other interns and I usually played Sudoku because there wasn't much to do.
• 12:00 PM: Lunch time. Residents eat the food of the day. After interns served food they wait so they can bring the dishes to the kitchen. Lunch usually takes doesn't take that long and the dishes are finished cleaning at 30.
• 12:30 PM: Silent free time. Most residents lay down on the couches and reclining armchairs and sleep until 2:15 PM. Interns are free to do what they want, personally I used the time to do the homework we were assigned by the school.
• 2:15 PM: Early Activity time that lasts for 15 minutes. The residents that wake up early get brought into the main hall, while workers and interns entertain them with stories or fun activities.
• 2:30 PM: ''Kaffee und Kuchen Zeit.'' Residents get served cake, cookies or other pastries, often with coffee or juice of their choice. Interns serve them their food and drinks and then help out in the kitchen as soon as first dishes get brought into the kitchen.
• 3:00 PM: First residents get picked up or brought home by either their relatives or the bus service that the facility provides. At this point interns stay and work in the kitchen, clean up, bring out the trash and bring in any deco that could break during the night.
• 4:00 PM: Last residents get picked up and facility gets closed. Everyone finishes and gets off their shift at this time.