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|   Get to Know Her Describe what a typical day is like for you. Typical school day: I get up, get dressed, have breakfast -- usually a plain boiled egg or poached egg on toast -- and walk to school. It's only three blocks away, across from Beacon Hill Park. That's why it's called South Park School. It was built in 1894 so it's only two years old. At school we learn reading, English grammar, spelling, geography, history of England and Canada, arithmetic, science, penmanship, freehand drawing, singing, and much more, but not all in the same day. I like singing the best. And recess! That's when he have to go outside for fresh air and our classroom gets an airing out, too, because all the windows are thrown wide open -- even if it's freezing! -- to let the fresh air in and the stuffy smells out. At noon I go home for dinner and then back to school. After school I play with my friends or go to my drawing lessons and piano lessons. I'm not good at drawing, not like Jane. After supper I play games with my sisters or we read stories until it's time for bed. My favourite dinner is not rumpsteak and kidney pudding! It's roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. My favourite supper is pea soup and ham sandwiches. For dessert I would like to eat trifle every day of the week but I can't. My other favourite dessert is Victoria sandwiches. They're not named after our city, Victoria, but after our Queen. I wonder if she has trifle every day of the week?? Who is the most important person in your life? I have TWO most important people. Mother and Father. What thing do you love most in the world? My parents and sisters and bicycle (even though I don't have a bicycle yet). I love to sing, especially in rounds.  What is your greatest wish?A BICYCLE! And for Hing's family to come to Victoria. I would like to meet his little girl who was born in the Year of the Dog, the same as me. What is your greatest fear? That something bad will happen to Mother and Father. What do you do for fun? Feed ducks in Beacon Hill Park, play on the beach along Dallas Road, go boating on the Gorge, go on picnics (especially when we go all the way out to Esquimalt Lagoon), walk across the James Bay Bridge and up Government Street to the grocer's for candy, ride on the streetcar, play games like jacks and cat's cradle and charades and Parcheesi. What aspect of life in the twenty-first century do you think you would love the most? The twenty-first century?? I can hardly imagine tomorrow -- or next year -- or the twentieth century let alone the twenty-first century! But this is what I'd like -- for the streetcars to go even faster than they go now. I'd like to be able to get from one place to another so fast you hardly know you're moving. What aspect of life in the twenty-first century do you think you would dislike the most? I honestly don't know. |
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