This should be posted a two weeks ago but I was too busy to write the thing down. I went to the the garden at St.Clair West & Bathurst to help our service partner, Sara, with interviewing a Chinese Woman, from Dongbei province in China. Surprisingly Sara learned Chinese before when she was teaching as a TA in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in Shanghai.
Since Sara had difficulties fully understanding her words, she asked me to help translate the story and any questions/answers from the Chinese woman. This is very helpful for the story recording because there may be a chance the woman tell the story without understanding Sara's question. We still spent a whole afternoon to make sure the woman's telling the story relevantly. She mentioned her experience of growing food fifty years ago in China. She also told us what is her life like after she moved to Canada. She told us how different was the food grew locally in Toronto from the food she grew in Beijing. Eventually these stories will be visible to the public through the web. I was pleased that I helped collect the story and build the interface for more people to access to the story in this project. It was quite an amazing experience.
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