Each year our school has a designated day for service.  We are grouped by grade and assigned to go to a certain place to lend our service.  This year most of my classmates and I went to the Adult Facility.  In a Chinese orphanage, if a child is mentally disabled and has not been adopted after the age of 14 they are sent to the Adult Facility where they will stay, sadly, for the rest of their life.  Many of the occupants there had down syndrome or were quadriplegic.  All of my classmates (excluding me and a few others) brought their instruments to play songs such as the Ode to Joy and the Minuet.  Then we all sang some interactive songs such as 'Hokey Poky' and 'Shake a Friends Hand'.  After we did that for about five different audiences we helped with their lunch.  My friend Tae  Eun and I helped feed one of the men that was quadriplegic and unable to feed himself.  At the end of our visit we did their daily stretches with them and then played on their playground with them.  Though a lot of the people there were unable to communicate effectively I learned that each one had their own way of expressing their feelings even though it is not in the way we do.  I was really encouraged to see them so excited to see us.  We are most likely the only outside group that comes to see them so it is special for them to play with us.   I think I learned more about people mentally disabled and I had a lot of fun serving them! 
*No pictures were allowed at the Adult Facility,  ;(