Friends turn 100 after lifetime as nuns

TWO nuns at an East London convent have recently celebrated turning 100-years-old, but both said ? with a shrug ? that they don?t feel any different to when they were 99!

Yesterday, a tea-and-cake party was held at Emmaus Convent to mark Sister Bertrand's century seven weeks after her friend Sister Serena also reached the milestone. "It really doesn't quite register in my mind that I am really 100-years-old," said Bertrand, who has been a nun for 79 years. "I am still not aware, maybe it's because of old age."

Serena offered similar sentiments. "I don't even think about being 100-years-old," she said. "I can still do many things by myself. I don't think about being old."

The two, both originally from Germany, are now living at the convent in Cambridge, which is specially for elderly nuns. Bertrand entered the convent when she was only 18 after growing up in a Catholic home.