00:01It's an unlikely pairing, but these seniors and teenagers have hit it off.
00:07They're so friendly and you forget their age and you just start talking and they ask you all the questions.
00:14It was really, really great, really fun actually.
00:17Once a week these high school students have been meeting with older members of their community in a program aimed at bridging the generation gap.
00:25I went into it thinking that it would just be something good to put on my resume, but then it just became nice and just time away from school where I actually got to make a connection with another part of Bhagindad.
00:38We've had a great understanding of what their lives are like and how different they are to when we were children.
00:48Making connections, but also a chance to learn new skills.
00:52Me, Natter and Jazz didn't know how to knit at all.
00:56And then so the first couple of weeks was like learning how to knit.
01:00It's like calming and relaxing, so once you get the hang of it.
01:04They've done a marvellous job. They finished what they started, so I'm really proud of them.
01:08There have been benefits in the classroom, at home and in the community.
01:12Just a general respect for older people and a general respect for the process of sitting and listening.
01:20It's just opened up their personalities a lot and it's also given them the opportunity to tell their stories.
01:27The program has even inspired a song.
01:30Conversing with the teens and the memories they bring, these are a few of my favourite things.
01:38Proving age is no barrier to friendship.
01:40Proving age is no barrier to friendship.
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