lady talk

This Thursday, we went for our second interview with the elderly at the nursing home. I talked to this old lady called Marge. She is a migrant from Germany who has been in Melbourne for 53 years.

It was quite amazing how we spent over an hour talking about her life story. Marge is a talkative person compared to me. Before going in this time, four of us actually prepared a list of light questions to start up the conversation. But me and Marge ended up having a long talk on most of the questions, which was quite fun.

Back to her life story, Marge was born in 1920 and she was married to this guy when she was 19. The reason they got married really touches my heart. The man was going to the war, and thought Marge could get quite a bit mount of money from the government if he dies in the world. So he asked Marge to marry him, and he never came back from the war. Marge then stayed single for ten years. This is as sad and weepy as a drama. I was thinking “does this kind of love still exist in today’s world?”

People nowadays tend to ask for more from others than giving out love, they feel insecure to give and sacrifice.

Marge met her second husband when she was already 32 years old, they got married and came to Australia because the husband got a job offer as construction builder. By the way, her husband Tasiode is living in the same nursing home as well. He was taking his nap in another room while I was talking to Marge. Speaking of husband, Marge told me that “you should train your husband to do the housework as soon as you get married, otherwise he would just be spoiled and get lazier and lazier along your marriage.”

Talking to Marge was really a delightful experience since she made me feel like talking to my own grandma. The little fear I had that those elderly might be a bit scary to talk to is totally gone. They are the loveliest human being.

Isa.....