Doug’s Story by Doug Jamieson

This is about Doug. I’m on my job placement from Dartmouth work-activity and I’m a maintenance engineer. Sometimes I work with my supervisor Dale Thomas, but not very often. Dale also is a bus driver. He picks up the girls and the boys and drops them off. I sweep mop and do all different things. I wipe with a rag the cubby holes. They are for the boots and scarves and lunch boxes and everything. I don’t see kids when I’m working only once and awhile. Maybe at March break I will see the kids if I’m still there.

I really want to work at Sobey’s and I want a change. I told that to Stew wash. Stew puts people into job placement. Stew said the Boys and Girls Club is only your trial.

My Vacation by Ababa Ayele

In 2004, my friend invited me to Toronto to help her with her sister’s wedding. I went there with my two girls. I helped her with the wedding party. We decorated and organized the wedding food, and cooked it. We had people from Somalia and Nigeria. They made rice and spaghetti, and chickens. They also had vegetables like potatoes and carrots and tomatoes, with home-made bread.

The Somalians and Nigerians are Muslims. They have similar clothes, but they have different kinds of dancing. The Ethiopian people cooked chicken and other meat, also we cooked vegetables and ingere, and gomen and icosta. We made home-made bread. We made salad with garlic and ginger, green pepper, carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce, and we mixed it with lemon.