Pt1420 Unit 2 Assignment
1. What activities did the person participate in as a child?
Person reported she played marbles and card games with eight other siblings, also reported that she and her siblings would be outdoors most of the time, as back in her day, not everyone had a TV and her family were too poor to afford one, so therefore they would play family based games where everyone could participate. She reported that she left school after year seven to help her mother with chores and look after younger siblings. She had a lot of responsibility for a kid.
2. Which ones did they remember most clearly or get most excited about in the telling?
Playing marbles, she reported that it was the most fun out of all the games, and her and her siblings were always very competitive. She …show more content…
Prior to migrating she travelled throughout Asia with friends. She also travelled to Australia. When she settled down in New Zealand in 2003, she lived with her son and brought up his kids and made herself at home. She reports that she now has a house of her own where she spends most of her time.
8. What significant historical events can they remember from this period?
She reported that every Christmas and New Years Eve day she and all her siblings and their children would get together and throw a big Christmas party and have a Christmas lunch where everyone would be so happy and talk and laugh with each other and sing Christmas Carols. On New Year’s Eve they would have another party and sing and dance until the countdown for the New Year begun.
9. What activities did the person report they participle in currently?
Going for walks and still reading, she said that she hardly goes for walks as much as she used to as where she lives now, is a secluded place, on the highway and there is not as much scenery as she would like. But her daughter will pick her up and they will go for a walk around the river. She competes in the annual Round the Bridges
Person reported she played marbles and card games with eight other siblings, also reported that she and her siblings would be outdoors most of the time, as back in her day, not everyone had a TV and her family were too poor to afford one, so therefore they would play family based games where everyone could participate. She reported that she left school after year seven to help her mother with chores and look after younger siblings. She had a lot of responsibility for a kid.
2. Which ones did they remember most clearly or get most excited about in the telling?
Playing marbles, she reported that it was the most fun out of all the games, and her and her siblings were always very competitive. She …show more content…
Prior to migrating she travelled throughout Asia with friends. She also travelled to Australia. When she settled down in New Zealand in 2003, she lived with her son and brought up his kids and made herself at home. She reports that she now has a house of her own where she spends most of her time.
8. What significant historical events can they remember from this period?
She reported that every Christmas and New Years Eve day she and all her siblings and their children would get together and throw a big Christmas party and have a Christmas lunch where everyone would be so happy and talk and laugh with each other and sing Christmas Carols. On New Year’s Eve they would have another party and sing and dance until the countdown for the New Year begun.
9. What activities did the person report they participle in currently?
Going for walks and still reading, she said that she hardly goes for walks as much as she used to as where she lives now, is a secluded place, on the highway and there is not as much scenery as she would like. But her daughter will pick her up and they will go for a walk around the river. She competes in the annual Round the Bridges