Story of the Week
September 22, 2008
This week, the story comes to us from Vancouver, BC. The author, Robin Garcia, was born in Tacoma, Washington (USA). She was raised in Vancouver by her grandmother on the Musqueam reserve. At the age of 13, Robin’s grandmother died and her aunt took care of her. Robin was pregnant at the age of 17 and suffered abuse from both the father of her child and from her family. Later, she had five more children with another man and now lives in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood doing her best to raise all her children, ranging in age from 2 to 14. Luckily, in her late teens, Robin attended school. She always found it important to get an education.
More books and words and stories
by Robin Garcia
Learning is a lot of listening, but it works. We just get going and we keep going... more books and words and stories. They (...my children) are always egging me on - so much unlike my own family.
Never thought I would be in College. You wouldn’t have either if you had seen me ten years ago.
The courses are helping me understand my life and what I have been through. I understand what women undergo. I want them to know they are not alone.
I love my kids, but college is something I do for myself. I’ve never done that.
[This story was taken with permission from the ABC CANADA website, where it was part of the Learner Profiles.]
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