Chat with Grace Dodig

3:30 PM Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Topic: Lakewood Pen Pals Project: Weekly letter writing to Lakewood Residents, Elementary School Students, and My Grandmother.

Agenda: 

• Overview of my Lakewood Pen Pal project and CCAK, talk about adjusting to Covid and seeing the strain on family members who were older and younger
• Facebook ad about community letter writing to a nursing home in my hometown and wanting to bring the initiative to Colby/Lakewood
• Sharing my letter writing to my grandmother
• Sharing reactions I have seen and gotten from all three groups
• Discuss why I think letter writing is so importantandtheimportanceofsocialinteraction
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/well/live/having-friends-is-good-for-you.html
  • https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hands_on_research
• Ask people on the call to share experiences with writing and receiving letters
• Invite people into pen pal project

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