Tag: grandma

Grandma from northeast China becomes famous with 4,000-meter parachute jump

YANG JIANG, China (CCTV) — A grandma from northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province challenged people’s concept of the elderly people’s lifestyle and became an internet hit by parachute-jumping from an altitude of 4,000 meters. Zuo Shufen, nearly 70 years old, flew to south China’s Guangdong Province with her granddaughter to experience skydiving during this year’s Labor Day Holiday. “My granddaughter suggested parachute-jumping last year, so this year I went with her without telling my son. I felt quite […]

Celebrating Elderly Filipino Month – this is for our grandparents!

QUEZON City, Philippines (October 5 ) -Grandparents: the people who taught us great life lessons, cared for us like we are their own, and loved us deeply aside from our parents. The wisdom and experience that they imparted on us had helped us grow into the people we are now. By virtue of Proclamation No. 470, the first week of October has been designated as Elderly Filipino Week. This is in recognition to the selfless […]