Long term memory; short term memory

When we first entered Village At The Park, the first thing I can immediately remember is the surrealness of the place as I walked in. My first reaction was excitment and the concept of not knowing what to expect. That's the whole beauty of this project for me. The smell reminds me of the occasional maori boil-up (which is quite bizzare seeing as everyone else said it smells like urine.)

The first day or two, we visited the whole Dimentia unit to get ourselves less tense for the people we were going to be 'buddied' with. I remember talking to a lovely lady called Betty, who would constantly ask who I was every 5 minutes and kept complementing my 'beautiful, white teeth.' She wouldn't have remembered me 5 minutes after that, but this memory will stay with me. The thing that interests me is she wouldn't have remembered me 5 minutes after that and as time goes by, you start to notice She wouldn't have remembered me 5 minutes after that your memory is lost and you keep repeating the same ideas...over... and over again.