AARP Rewards Community Learning & Earning Contest August 2022

I follow complicated knitting patterns and I'm learning Italian.

I keep my brain active by engaging in the following activities:

1. I belong to a Facebook group that teaches Yiddish, which was spoken in my home as a child, but as I grew, the family spoke it less and less. I am learning new words, and relearning ones that I once knew, but forgot.

2. I am an avid reader and take walks to my local library several times a week. 

3. I like to do crossword puzzles, and all types of word puzzles.

4. I find new recipes from other cultures, and make these new dishes often. I also learn about the origin of the recipe. 

5. I read a lot about dementia, as my Dad is in an assisted living facility, and I am with him on weekends, caring for him, helping him cope and still do "normal" things.

I practice mindfulness, read, walk and play brain games like puzzles and split words on staying sharp.

I love crossword puzzles.  I just bought a book of 500 Sunday New York Times puzzles.  A month later I am working on #23

I love marking plants grow I rescue plants that people are throwing in trash they will say that it is dead and something is eating it but I check as close to root a possible and if any green I nurture and google and I have learned so much from internet that I haven’t lost a plant that I rescued  I want to take some courses about growing and raising plants I read everything there is seed packets YouTube I can’t believe how as I get older I can’t get enough of knowledge if I hear something and someone says that this is a true story I have to research it well that’s enough I have to google something.

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@AARPTeri wrote:

August 2022, Learning/Earning/Back to School Contest!

 

Tell us how you keep your brain active to keep engaged for the chance to be one of five (5) winners of a $50 VISA Gift card! 

 

Post your message by clicking reply at the bottom of this message! Contest runs from 8/1 until 8/31/22.  Click here to see Contest Rules.

 

Some examples to help get you started!

My son moved to Germany, and I take German classes so I can feel a little more comfortable with the language when I visit him for the holidays.

 

I like to take quizzes and watch videos about topics I’m interested in like “what do you know about long-term care” from the Rewards earning page.

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Both my husband and I try to keep our brains active by playing word games. We really like Word Trip, and also Word Serenity.  We have the apps on our Kindle Fire (which is a great inexpensive tablet to have).

Besides reading, doing Sudoko and crossword puzzles everyday, I am learning Mah Jongg, a table games with tiles in which you draw tiles (like you would cards in a card game) and try to create one of a set of "hands" or groups of tiles. I also walk every day and do an online aerobic class.

I am teaching a Continuing Education Class and it keeps me on my toes and my students

very engaged. I had been in Education for the last 25 years, so it is good for me and great

for the students that are trying to continue their education.

I read these AARP e-mails and answer the trivia questions. I read our daily newspaper on line daily, I play an instrument in our local Community Band, I'm involved in my church activities, I work as an election judge twice a year, I ring the bell for Salvation Army at least 7 hours a year and I donate blood a couple times a year.

 I read as much as possible and i go to AARP website and play around