Grainger street

Version en ingles

My grandmother was born not long after the great depression. She was one of five children. She had two older brothers (one of them died of polio when my grandmother was onlyseven) and two younger sisters. Her father had a small bakery at the end of Grainger Street, where he made and sold bread and pound cake. My grandmother worked in the bakery on Saturdays when she wasyoung. She liked cooking and could make a great pound cake by the time she was twelve. She left school when she was fourteen, and got a job in a factory, but it was hard work (eight oclock in the morninguntil six oclock at night, and only one Saturday off a month) so she left the factory after six months and enrolled in night school. She learned typing and shorthand, and got a job as a secretary in acollege on the other side of town. There she met my grandfather. He taught geography there. They married the following June and went to Canada on their honeymoon. They stayed in a place calledChippawa, hired two bicycles and rode all over the surrounding area. My grandmother remembers they had very little money, ate sandwiches and drank root beer every day four lunch, visited Niagara Falls, andtook lots of photographs. It was the only time my grandmother ever traveled abroad, but she never forgot it.

Version en español.
Mi abuela nació poco después de la gran depresión. Ella fue unade sus cinco hijos. Tenía dos hermanos mayores (uno de ellos murió de polio cuando mi abuela tenía sólo siete) y dos hermanas menores. Su padre tenía una pequeña panadería en la final de GraingerStreet, donde se hacen y venden pan y bizcocho. Mi abuela trabajaba en la panadería de los sábados, cuando ella era joven. Le gustaba cocinar y podría hacer un bizcocho grande cuando ella tenía doce años.Dejó la escuela cuando tenía catorce años, y consiguió un trabajo en una fábrica, pero fue un trabajo duro (ocho en punto de la mañana hasta las seis en punto de la noche, y sólo un sábado libre al...