Thursday, July 14, 2011

Questions to Ask Seniors

Questions to ask seniors
  1. Where and when were you born?
  2. Who were your parents and what were there jobs?
  3. What is the earlies memory that you can recall?
  4. Did you have any sibilings?
  5. What was your earliest memory of school?
  6. What was your favorite subject in school?
  7. What was your least favorite subject in school and why?
  8. Who were some of your favorite teachers and why?
  9. Who were some of your least favorite teachers and why?
  10. What were some after school activities you were involved in?


  11. Who was your best friend in school?
  12. Who was your favorite teacher?
  13. Did you like your principle of your Jr. High School, high school or elementary school?
  14. What kind of sport teams did they have at your Jr. High School,high schooo, elementary school?
  15. What school did you go to?
  16. Did he have his first love in Jr. High,high school, elementary school?
  17. Who was your first sweetheart?
  18. Were there any school dances?
  19. What school activates did you have?
  20. Did you play sports?


  21. What grades did you have?
  22. What was the most technological thing in your school days?
  23. What was your first Job?
  24. When did you learn to drive and what was the first vehical you drove?
  25. What did you do in the summertime as a child, teenager, adult?
  26. When did you first meet your spouce?
  27. What was your first date like?
  28. When did you get married?
  29. What do you recall about your courtship?
  30. What was life like when your first child was born ect?


  31. What was it like when your first grandchild was born?
  32. What was your wedding day like?
  33. What was your childs wedding day like?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. I was born in Hong Kong on 2nd Oct. 1949.

2. My father was named Chun. He was a worker in a saw mill in Vancouver many years ago until his vision deteriorated and went back to China and later to Hong Hong.
My mother was named Wai. She was mainly a housewife until my father became blind. She ran a business selling fabric in Canton, China. After moving to Hong Kong, she became a seamstress for a little while.

3. I remembered I was playing with neighbor kids every day with various kinds of toys.

4. Yes, I do. Two sisters, but one already passed away many years ago after her child was born.

5. I went to a grade one class of a school, which was the second floor of a building to numbers down my place. The first thing we did was a class captain who rang a bell and the class would stand up in unison and said “Good morning teacher”.

6. I liked Chinese history.

7. I did not like Chemistry.

8. I liked a teacher in a night class where I learnt English when I was about 12 years of age. She was not only teaching the class, she took me to a doctor because I was skinny and thought I had some hidden sickness. She was so kind that she concerned also her student’s well beings.
When I was in senior high, a Chinese history teacher was very good in telling stories about history. However, he also told students that the lessons which taught us, and its morality. Thus, how we could behave a good citizens.

9. There was one; however, it was not really his fault. My Chemistry teacher in senior high had a very heavy Shanghai tongue. I had difficulties to understand him

10. I did home works every day after school, than played games with other boys after.

11. He was an Indonesian with father as a Chinese and mother was a German while we were in a vocational school.

12. I could not remember his name. He was my Chinese history teacher. (Question # 8)

13. In Hong Kong, students normally could not commonly talk to a principle, unless you were in serious trouble and to be expelled from school. They were normally very busy.

14. In Hong Kong, schools did not have any sport teams as they only emphasize in academic education. Once a week, a teacher would teach exercise and they called them physical education class.

15. My elementary school was a public school ran by government, and was called Fuk Wing Street Government Elementary School.

16. No, he did not. We met in the church.

17. My first sweetheart was and is my wife.

18. We did not have any school dances. Hong Kong had a totally difference system.

19. I skipped ropes, hide and seek, throwing bean bags in elementary school I played basket balls, English footballs and swimming in high school.

20. Yes, they were basket ball and English football.
21. I finished senior high school, an equivalent of grade 12 in Canada.

22. I learned engineering drafting in Canada.

23. My first job was a summer one in Hong Kong as a radio assembler.

24. I learnt driving on the second years arriving in Canada, while I was working a summer job in Waterton National Park.

25. I visited and played with boys in the neighborhood as a child.
I play basket ball, football and swimming.
As an adult, I worked one summer job and later on had a full time job after graduation.

26. I met my spouse when I was in a youth fellowship in a church in Hong Kong.

27. We normally met in the church fellowship. The first real contact was to help her doing some student handcraft at her house.

28. We got married on September 27, 1975.

29.

30. It was full of activities and noisy.

31. I don’t have grandchild yet. I would imagine I will be happy.

32. I was happy and nervous on my wedding day, and was tired and relief afterwards.

33. I was happy as he had a new companion.

Anonymous said...

1. I was born in Hong Kong in 1951.

2. My father is Chui Kam and he was a mechanic. My mother is Yuen Hou Kuen. she was a housemaid.

3. Once I shared some barbecue pork, that my mom bought for our supper, with my little friends who lived in our house when I was about six years old.

4. No.

5. I won the first prize in a game when I was in kindergarten.
6. Biology was my favorite subject in school.

7. History was my least favorite subject in school because there was too much names to be remembered.

8. I liked my Mathematics teacher because she was very smart. I also liked my Chinese teacher because she was very nice and she liked to tell stories.
9. I didn't like my Chemistry teacher because he taught too fast and gave us many quiz.

10. I played basketball.

11. Kathy

12. Miss sun

13. I liked my principle in High School.

14. We had vollyball and basketball teams,

15. I went to private school.

16. No

17. My husband was my first sweetheart.

18. No

19. I didn't have school activity.

20. No

21. Nil

22. Keypunch

23. A summer school teacher
24. I learned to drive after I came to Canada. My first vehicle was Ford Toronto.
25. In a few summers, I made some artificial flowers arrangement at home when I was a child. I was a summer school teacher in two summers when I was a teenager. I went to the library, concert or to meet some friends when I was in adulthood.

26. I met him when I was a teenager.

27. The first date was like a social event.

28. when I was twenty-three years old.

29. My heart jumped badly.

30. I felt the life was overwhelmed after the first child was born.

31. Nil

32. I felt like I would have a partner to walk with me in my life.

33. On my child's wedding day, I was glad that my child had found someone to look after him and he had a company in his life.

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