These Hilarious Old People!

SO...
Marisa has been too sleepy to have me update her blog, but I just had to share some stories about these people in the rehab center!

So Marisa's roommate here is named Nanay which just means mother in Tagalog. She's Chinese Filipino..but her Tagalog is kind of broken according to most of the nurses here, and she can't speak English (A lot of them are Filipino which my dad has just loved since he can speak Tagalog to them and we get some free Filipino food!)

So anyways, everyone here calls her the Queen...for a few obvious reasons.
1) She assumes everyone here is her servant. For example: my dad made eye contact with her the other day and she called him servant boy and asked him to clean up the water on the floor. Then today I said "Kamusta po?" which is how are you to an elder, and then she said "Ayaw ko" which is like I don't want this or I don't like this and she was referring to her food, and asked me to get her something else!
2) She has to have her light on at night..gets super mad if you turn it off...and if you turn her tv volume down she freaks out!
3) she has this hilarious huge smile and kind of tilts her head back like she's a queen...its kind of cute actually.

Anyways, we're not that annoyed with her, its just really funny to us since every time we're nice or friendly, she assumes we want to do something for her..which i don't mind, but I do draw the line at changing her diaper! ;) And I'm enjoying practicing some Tagalog! Its so funny because when we ask the nurses to do something that she's asked us to do, a lot of the time they just take her out of the room since she might be trying to be difficult and not cooperate like with the TV and light.

There's this other lady who is just awesome. She has hearing problems and alzheimers. So she uses this wheelchair type thing and just roams the halls all day yelling "hi hi!" and she always wears pink and is super tiny. One day she yelled "hi hi!" to me because Marisa's door was open and I was sitting there. Well, Marisa was asleep so I put my fingers to my lips and said "shh!" and smiled at her. THEN (and this is the best part..dont think ill forget this face for the rest of my life) she got this evil scary movie look on her face and yelled "BYE BYE!" and it literally woke Marisa up and we both just started dying of laughter. it was awesome. and now we tell everyone about it when they come to visit and happen to see that lady. she's my favorite :)

Everyone is really nice here. A lot of the nurses say that Marisa is their favorite patient! For some reason, maybe its because of the angle with Marisa laying down or maybe its the boot that makes her taller, but they all think she's the oldest! And most of the Filipina women say how beautiful we are, and try to feed us everything under the sun (but it is a nursing home so the food isnt that great!) just because they think we're all too skinny. Overall, this is definitely an interesting experience and I think I'm going to miss these ladies! We might need to visit often :)