National Adult Literacy Database

January 14, 2008

The following story was written by Richard Murray, from Guelph, Ontario. Richard is enrolled in literacy classes at Action Read in Guelph.  The story below came out of a short-term group that was working on housing issues with their housing educator.

I like winter

by Richard Murray

I like winter because I can play in the snow. I create dinosaurs, rabbits and candles out of snow. Then I spray paint them. One time, I made a white spider out of snow. Me and a certain staff have a snowball fight. I like that. Sometimes the staff takes the van to her house and visit her dog. If we ask, sometimes we can walk the dog if it's not too cold.

I used to shovel out the driveway in the winter some days. It was OK. It was cold but I still like it.

People know you have to wear warm clothes in winter. I wear a coat with a toque attached to it. I don't have winter gloves but I need some. I have OK winter boots. There's no holes in them, no rips in them.

I like winter because I can play in it.

[This story was taken with permission, from Learners' News Star, December 2006.  This was published by Action Read Community Literacy Centre, a project of the For the Love of Words Group.]