AARP Rewards Community Learning & Earning Contest August 2022

I exercise daily. Eat mostly healthy food. Having a vegetable garden helps with both of those. I read and do AARP games.

I like to take quizzes and read about topics I am interested in like "is your home age ready" from the Rewards earning page.

Adriana

I work part time at a community snr center, i continue to exercise 5 days a week , variety, Pilates, yoga, eccentrics, aerobics. I eat organic produce with some fish, chicken and a little dairy, yogurt in the AM, keep gluten/GMO free. But more important than all of that is that i have been working to understand how such an intelligent species as our own got "ourselves" into this Great Mess! With several degrees, the last one in environmental science in 2012, I gained enough background material to understand enough as to how but better, to posit a New Story based on what we "can now know" if we drop the blinders of the limited level of seeing most of us appear to experience. There is a New possible Story, that's what activates my me and my brain.

I do my best to eat healthy, get 8-9 hours sleep each night, walk for 30 minutes each day on the treadmill, lift light weights every other day, and do genealogy research. Genealogy research has enough confusion in it alone to challenge one's mind in keeping facts straight. I often do the brain exercises on the AARP website.

I take weekly Zumba and cardio dance classes at my local gym. Having to learn new dance steps and keep up with the much younger instructors keeps my brain active.

I mostly play Scrabble, Daily Crossword, Ball Stort and Heza Block on my phone.  I have tried some AARP games and find them challenging. I read articles on the AARP site and find them to be very helpful.  I also read Daily Christian Devotionals that I receive automatically on my computer, these feed my mind and my soul.

I do a stretching and breathing yoga class three days a week coupled with an aerobic workout beforehand. I start the day with wordle and quordle and worldle. Reading and books on tape keep me thinking.I have also reached 400+ days on Duolingo working on a bit of Spanish. I am getting there!

I take French classes on Duolingo to keep my brain sharp and learning another language is always good.  I plan to continue on and take Spanish as well.  I play the memory games that help keep the brain sharp.  

Serving as President (pro bono) of the Seniors Job Bank keeps my brain constantly engaged. The Seniors Job Bank is a nonprofit community organization in the Hartford, CT area that connects people over 50 looking for work with businesses, households, and other employers that have work to be done. Our service is free, to jobseekers and employers. Visit www.seniorsjobbankct.org.

I play games like Wordle, Wordscapes, Soduko, Mini Crossword. I also have a school-age child, so I also do homework. I still proofread papers for my college age children. I also enjoy watching quiz shows like Jeopardy! 😊