PHC+-+Passages

__Homework Project:__

PASSAGES: What we keep tells a story (Ontario Arts Council)
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 * PASSAGES -** **Peel Heritage Complex**
 * peelheritagecomplex.org/passages**


 * Passages is an interactive project that illustrates how we all keep reminders of our past. These reminders are something we all share ... something that connects us, regardless of our differences.**


 * Passages tells individual histories - and through them emerges a collective, connected history that reflects the diversity of our communities.**


 * Check out peelheritagecomplex.org/passages**


 * Write your story on "word" about your object. Check your spelling and grammar. Add your story and a thumbnail photo of yourself and a picture of your object to this Wiki for feedback from your peers. Then you can add your object stories to the Passages website and share your story with your community of Peel.**


 * - Carefree 12 11 27**

A Birthday Card  I still remember the sound of his laughter as we ran around the neighbourhood and many kisses she gave on my face. My nice Mayra filled me with her beautiful love, unconditional and selfless. At that time she was 6 years old. This birthday card was the first gift she bought for me. She gathered all coins to buy this card for me. Mayra is my oldest nice and was the first baby born en our family. Now, I landed in Canada and I left She in Brazil. I miss her so much. Her card remind me of her and her precious love that continues on as it is reflected in the way I care for until the end of my life. My nice has left her fingerprints of love all over my heart. How I love her. Sincere  November 28th, 2012

MY FIRST CAR It was around 1993, when I was 18 years old. I had started my university studies 1 year before, and I used to take bus to go everywhere, when my father gave me my first car. It was an old VW beetle 1979. It was at the company where he used to work, the car was mounted over 4 bricks (no tires) and with all engine parts around.. over the floor. It took like 2 months to complete the entire car’s restore, but finally I got it. I was so happy, but I didn’t know how to drive. So, a friend of mine started to give me a few lessons. Today, I remembered it and I laugh... But at that time, it was a complete disaster.. Because the car was so old, and it was long time without functioning, the driver’s door didn’t work properly, so I had to be careful about the clutch, brakes, wheel, etc… and THE DOOR, who suddenly opens every time we turned the wheel to the right. Also, if I didn’t handle properly the clutch and leave my car turns off… It didn’t start again. So, I had to push the car from the rear while my friend started it using the transmission. Can you imagine? What a difficult way to learn how to drive. The windshield wipers mechanism stopped working some times, so I had to use my hand with a wiper blade to clean the windshield of rain. Once, back seat got fire, because the battery is under the seat, so there was an electrical problem and it was so close to get all seat burned. So many stories… It was my car for couple of years… Finally, after several fixes, last 6 months it was functioning perfectly!. So, we decide to sell it and buy a new car. Big mistake, I had an accident and I lost the new car… My father didn’t want to fix it… So, I didn’t have other car until I could buy one myself in 2001… Today, I remember my old beetle with homesickness, and I didn’t take any photo of it. This is just a picture from a similar model (this one is very well maintained compared to mine) Curious, Nov 28th, 2012



My Story is about my childhood memories When I was at 9 years old I started to learn Volleyball. My father was my first coach. It was so interesting to me, in a month I am a great player in my place and nearby. Me and father developed a school team, and our team went for participated district school level competitions, finally our team won the first place and we got Trophy and cash prices. It was the first trophy in our school history. On that time I was the Caption of our school. After few years I promoted as a caption of District Volley ball team caption and College team caption. Royal 28/11/2012

My old pillow cover. I have my pillow cover what when I use a baby. Yes I know it’s pretty funny but there’s story about why I still have that. When I was born my mom was so happy. But soon, she got in to a problem cause; I didn’t only sleep but also cried all day and night. So she also couldn’t sleep. She thought that this is serious problem to me and she started to found out a way that makes me falling asleep. One day when she was cooking for me, she felt I was so silenced. So when she was looking at me, I was slept! At the first time she thought I died. But it wasn’t. I was sleep like so peacefully. She said in her mind, ‘wow I have never seen that sleep like really calm. How she can sleep like this?’ And she found it I crabbed the edge of pillow cover and keep touching during sleeping. From that time to now on, I still can’t fall asleep without my pillow cover. Now pillow cover a little bit old but still I like it and sleep with it. I can say that this is so meaningful to my life; because I grew up with it and it will live with me until getting old like grandmother.

Jolly, Wednesday Nov 28, 2012

I am very proud for having emmigrated to Canada since 6 years now. The day I left my home country, was a very sad day for me because, I left all my friends, relatives and all my belongings back home. As my favourite pastime is cooking, I carried with me my CAST IRON PAN in which I have been cooking for more than half a decade. It is one of my wedding gift. It is a dark black pan of 10 inches diameter. It is used for all purpose cooking. It can be a Chinese dish when you need the pan to be 120 degrees. It is also suitable to make big stew.

Wise, Wednesday November 28, 2012

Wise April 23, 2012 Bonjour, welcome, good morning My parents are from China immigrated to the Island of Mauritius(720 square miles) situated on the right of Africa in the Indian Ocean. My father was the first to come to Mauritius at the age of 11. He has been working in a retailed shop with Grand father. At the age of 18, my father returned to China to marry my mother. They were promised to each other since their birth by their parents since their birth. My mom and my dad were cousins, son of my grandfather and daughter of my grandmother who were brother and sister.

After their wedding, they stayed one year in China for one year. The duration of stay was to give birth to a child whom they left with the grand parents, because my father was the only son of his family. My eldest sister was born and left with my grand parents to replace my mother who accompanied my father to Mauritius.

In Mauritius 14 children were born of which 5 died either premature or due to sickness. My parents made big sacrifices to educate us Although my parents couldn't speak the creole language derived from french, they has a retail shop and little by little they leaned creole from the customers.

It was a very small retail shop in the village, business was dealt with very poor people, e.g. labourers working in the sugarcane fields. Sugar cane is the main industry of Mauritius.



**__Boat cord__** Before last year I had a bad day in my life at sea. I will tell you what happened to me, but I first must tell you how I like going to Turkey every year for tourism, and I like the diving sport, especially in the Mediterranean Sea. One shining day I decided to go the sea which was far from my house about 15 kilometers. I wore a diving suit, rented a light plastic boat, and drove the boat 2-3 kilometers away from the beach. It was amazing weather and the winds were dormant. I selected depthless water, which was very clear. I reached my favorite place around 3:40 p.m. I put the boat anchor in the water and I jumped inside the sea. After 30 minutes I felt a muscle spasm in my left leg, so I decided to return to the boat. When I arrived at the surface of the water I found the boat far from my place around 100 meters away, and at the same time the wind started moving and pushing my boat further away. I tried catching the boat, but my left leg stopped completely. I was tired, frightened, and I lost staying power and focus. Within one hour, I lost any sign of the boat, and only one thing came to my mind: “The Sharks” and when will they attack. After more than two hours, I was feeling cold, fatigued, hungry, lost my direction, and the darkness was starting soon. After a short interval my leg improved, maybe due to the high level of adrenaline. I wanted to swim, but where was the correct direction? I did not know. I started to feel something touch my legs under the water, then I heard movement in the water, I expected at any moment that the sharks would jump from the darker water and swallow me, as I remembered in all the shark films. The surprise was 3 - 4 dolphins started swimming parallel with me. I wanted to catch one fish, because I was tired, but the dolphins escaped away. I talked with the fish, and I asked them for the correct direction, but they disappeared in the sea blackness. This time of year the water is quite cool during the night. What should I do to keep warm? I should move, but I was afraid to induce noise and bring the carefulness of the sharks. After five hours, I was sure this was my last day. I decide to stop swimming and go under the water, better than the Sharks eating me alive. Then I heard a motor sound far away and I saw small lights…I believed I was in a dream, and it was just hallucination, but after minutes the lights approximated my location. Yes, yes, everything was real, no imagination!!. Some fishermen found my boat and they phoned the coast guard, and they were searching for me for an hour. Really, it was the most scary long 5-6 hours in my life. Till today I can not understand how the new and strong cord for the boat anchor was cut! and the boat escaped. Until today I keep a part of the anchor cord and I brought it with me to Canada for luck.

- Merciful, Dec. 12, 2011

//Hi Merciful,// //This is an amazing story. I am so glad the fishermen found your boat and the coast guard found YOU !// //This story is very well written. There are only a few 'blips'. I have made some suggestions above.// //Over the holiday, you may want to do some extra 'past tense' excercises on line, and read some more to get a sense of the small words prepositions/articles (a, to, for, in, etc.).// //I did see some improvement on your Speaking CLB's. I would still recommend practicing your 'Passages' story to present to the class and some special guests on Monday during our "Holiday International Potluck" Celebration.// //Keep up the great work.// //- Keen, 14 Dec. 2011//



**Shields of Excellence** I am emotionally attached to my elegant, valued, and beautiful "Shields of Excellence" which I am so proud of for my accomplishments of working as "Senior Ship Inspector" and "Marine Adviser" for the Maritime Administration of United Arab Emirates since 2000. Those shields remind me of very hard working days., It was a challenge for me to establish the "SHIP INSPECTION DEPARTMENT" starting from nothing, I have accepted that challenge so I resigned from my easy job in Qatar to prove that I could do it. The result was, in a few years of insistence and determination, our new born department without exaggeration became the best department in the region. I proudly, emotionally, and with great happiness have the award of the International Center of the Arbitration in the Maritime Dispute, as well as the award and the membership of the International Maritime Committee, and man other appreciation shields and awards of excellence which all had to be transferred with me to Canada, my new living country. //- Miraculous, Dec.11,2011//

//Hi Miraculous,// //These are amazing accomplishments. Although I know nothing about your field of expertise, I can see that you strive for challenge and excellence through perseverance and hard work and you are not daunted by starting from scratch or ground zero.// //Your story is well written. Please practice your Passages story outloud, so that you can make the best of your presentation of it on Monday Dec 19, 2011 during our "Holiday International Potluck" celebration.// //I can see that your Reading levels have improved.// //Keep up the good work!// //- Keen, 14 December 2011//