These teens had, helped the elderly woman achieve her long-time dream, a story of inspiration, from the papers, translated…
The ninety-year-old Yu-Chong Kuo once had dreamed of being a star, other than working in the fields and working as a seamstress, she’d taken up line dancing, tango, and last year after a dancing injury, she’d taking up drumming, the Hsinming High School’s volunteers went to visit the care stations the school had set up in the community, and the students were moved by the elderly woman’s will to learn, they’d shot a mini-movie, “Grandma’s Dreams of Being Famous”, entered into competition set up by the Department of Education got first place, and, it’d, helped the elderly woman kept this precious memory of hers too.
the elderly woman, posing…photo from UDN.com…
The instructor of the Red Cross Youth Volunteer Group from Hsinming High School, Chou took a little over ten students to the Fu-Shun Community, and worked alongside the Psych department of the Asian University, to interview the elderly residents for their stories, and made their stories into houses of stories using clay; the students from the high school, Lin and Dai f0ound “Grandma Yu-Chong’s Dreams of Being Famous”, and decided to write a script for it, to shoot a movie, to document the life story of the elderly woman, and entered their short into the “Memories of Youth, Endless Amount of Inspirations”.
Dai, and Lin said, that while they were filming, they saw how much the elderly woman loved to learn, because she loved to sing, she keeps great tempo; the elderly lived in the southern districts, and, would go to the community center in Fushun to exercise, sing, and dance three days a week, back then, the care point was readying the elderly who worked out there to get involved in the Elderly Energy Show Competitions, and, Grandma Yu-Chong could practice the routines for three hours on end, without feeling tired.
here are the students who made her dreams of starring in the show possible, photo from UDN.com…
here they are, with the certificates of awards that they’d received from the short feature movie documenting the life of the elderly woman…
Kuo told, that when she was younger, she loved to sing, and every time the local temples held competitions, she’d definitely signed up, “Every single song by Jody Chiang I know by heart”, in her fifties, she’d started a line dancing group, and, picked up tango later on, until last year when she’d turned eighty-nine; her motto for life is, “Do what’s right, and you’ll be loved”, seeing how much heart the students put in, to make the micro features, to enter into the local community to interact with the elderly, “They are, the leads of the shows!”
So, this, is the story of how an elderly woman stayed active and she’s still learning new things, like those songs, even now, and, her love of learning is quite impressive, and, I’m sure, that the students would be, affected by her positive attitude toward learning, having interviewed her for their mini-feature.
Life, the Obstacle Course 