I went to work on Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9:15 to 1:00. I also went shopping for my nephew and I went shopping for mother’s day and I am going to another dance tomorrow night. It is at CNIB.
by Anonymous
In July, 2007 my husband had surgery and he was unable to do some of the book work and I could not read well enough to understand it all to help him. Therefore he and I got frustrated and said something has to be done. So I picked up the phone and called the library and asked if there was a program for adult literacy. I was talking to Linda Oakley the Program Coordinator at the Captain William Spry Library. It was a Tuesday and I came to the library for an interview that same night. I thought I could start in September but Linda informed me that they had a summer program so I started the next week. She really helped me because I thought I had all summer to think about it and here I am. I probably would have chickened out if I had waited until September. I didn’t tell my husband I was doing it until after I made the phone call. Linda worked with me until a tutor started to work with me in December. I am glad I came. I feel I am getting a lot out of it.
by Zafey Geberu
Captain William Spry Adult Learning Program
My name is Zafey Alemaw Geberu. I am 29 years old. I came here from Ethiopia in 2000. At first, I was excited to come to Canada because my husband was living here, but I soon discovered that none of this was what I had expected at all.
When I came here, everything was different. I was homesick. I had never
lived far away from my family and I missed all my friends. I was pregnant
with my daughter, Fray, and getting sick every morning. I didn’t speak any
English. I didn’t like the food or the weather. I used to cry almost every day
when my husband went to work. I told my husband, Ata, that I wanted to go
back home. He said, “You will be O.K. Don’t worry.”