UU150 Final: Ali heard his parents
Ali heard his parents’ conversation when deciding about
which school to send him and his brothers. They had
decided that everyone would go to the local Catholic
School in the area because they had a good special needs
program for his sister. While half of him couldn’t wait to
start back at school he was nervous about learning
English – he was astounded to learn from his brother
Adnan that you read left to right from what he considered
the back of the book! – and that he would be around
Christians all day. He had never spent a lot of time with
people from another religion. As a past resident of
Aleppo, he knew of Christians. Of the 10% of Christians
who lived in Syria, the majority were thought to reside in
his city of Aleppo. Yet, in his old neighbourhood and in
the refugee camp, he lived in the areas with other
Muslims.
On the night before he and his brothers went to meet
with their teacher, his Mother explained that here in
Canada, the majority of individuals were Christians or
secularists. He and his brothers laughed as they tried to
pronounce the second word in English. His brother
Mohammed got it pretty quickly although his own tongue
was having challenges making out some of the syllables.
His mother also told them that his father would be taking
business-level English just across town. He had to take
two busses to get there and there was a wait in-between
at a bus stop for about 30 minutes before the next one
came to pick him up for the rest of the journey. Both his
mother and father spoke enough English to get by. While
some of their trips to the store had been completed with
hand gestures and waving to get the point across, his
parents, though exhausted, were making huge strides in
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Document Summary
Ali heard his parents" conversation when deciding about which school to send him and his brothers. They had decided that everyone would go to the local catholic. School in the area because they had a good special needs program for his sister. While half of him couldn"t wait to start back at school he was nervous about learning. English he was astounded to learn from his brother. Adnan that you read left to right from what he considered the back of the book! He had never spent a lot of time with people from another religion. Of the 10% of christians who lived in syria, the majority were thought to reside in his city of aleppo. Yet, in his old neighbourhood and in the refugee camp, he lived in the areas with other. On the night before he and his brothers went to meet with their teacher, his mother explained that here in.
