Eleven years ago, when I was 50, I wondered what 70 would be like? I looked around and saw only one style of living. It’s not _________, I thought. Young people have so many styles to choose from, but other people have just one _________. So I decided to do something about it.

I worked on my health by joining exercise classes in town. A few years later, my husband and I moved to a retirement community, and I wanted to _________ aerobic (有氧运动的) classes. The community center wouldn’t give me a room to teach in, so I had to walk around _________ to find an available empty room.

One day, the community center staff came to me and asked _________ I would help with the performance for a Hawaiian luau(夏威夷式宴会) they were putting on. I _________. Then I talked five other ladies into dancing with me. We performed the hula (草裙舞) and a war chant so _________. Someone had a camera and took pictures, and then sent _________ to our local paper. We got _________ for more performances, which in turn led to more attention and yet more performances. Soon we had __________ invitations from all over the country. The Dancing Grannies were born!

I think the real __________ of the Dancing Grannies is our attitude(态度), I was raised pretty __________ no food. If we wanted toys, we had to __________ things to play with. So I learned early to be very creative. And you know, I think being poor was one of the __________ things that ever happened to me because I learned to look for treasure.

That’s what I’m still doing today－looking for the treasure in growing old. I’m getting better and better. It’s true that the old have to be __________ a bit differently, with a little care, but they still have a beauty of their own.