Telling Gould Stories
The faculty of Gould academy is larger than most would think. People that work behind the scenes to help all of us out have very interesting lives of their own. Everyone in the Gould community is unique and they all have underlying passions and hobbies. One person in particular has some very interesting stories to share with us, that is Mrs. Ruth Hebert. Ruth grew up in Oxford county and now she is living in the town of West Pairs, currently working at Gould as part of the housekeeping staff. She has worked at various places while applying her trade. For example Ruth worked at a hospital, daycare program, also at Hebron Academy, etc. Mrs. Hebert had a lot of experiences other than ones she had at Gould. She had heard
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She is satisfied with her job currently, she enjoys all the faculty members along with the beautiful spoke about, nice campus. She also told us how much she wants to recommend this job to other people when she retires. Mrs. Hebert told us about how she knows that if she keeps the buildings clean for the students and faculty. They are more likely to be respectful and show respect. Ruth also has a passion for flooring. She loves redoing the floors especially one certain type of flooring. This one special type of flooring is “The terrazzo floor”. Also after she talked about how much she is satisfied with her job and, the respect she receives she added that she also wants to interact more with kids at Gould. Mrs. Hebert would love to have a workshop day where the students of Gould get to see what a day in the life of a faculty member is like. Ruth loves kids and, being around kids all the time she finds a great joy. Mrs. Hebert also often spends a large portion of her time with her grandchildren. She explained how her grandchildren were only 2 and 4 but she does so much with them. Together they do things like crafting and playing. While Ruth was speaking to us and, telling us about her grandchildren you could feel her happiness and how much she loves her …show more content…
Ruth truly cares about others and that is a great quality to have. Mrs. Herbert enjoys sewing and quilting. Apart from being with her grandchildren and helping others. We continued upon the topic and Ruth was telling us about her teacher for when she learned how to knit. “Took a lot of classes… just work on a small project, that’s what I did, the first thing that I made was a big doily, and every time I made a mistake I ripped it out”. She believes that the 4 point program is a valuable week. She believes it’s an awesome program to be more respectful with each others, she also told us how much she got impressed from our school’s community services. After Mrs. Hebert explained her schedule, there are some differences in between each season but they are mostly alike. Mrs. Hebert said that schedule in the summertime and winter are very different. In winter, it’s really fast and kind of non stopping cleaning because of the snow. Also Mrs. Hebert added how much she is busy in these days with a bunch of different things. But in the summer, it is so much slower than winter. However, she said she like working in both seasons. Stories like this one are very intriguing. Everyday people like Ruth Hebert do extraordinary things for others and
After evaluating the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, I came to the conclusion that the narrator made the right choice of giving her daughter, Maggie, the family quilts. Dee (Wangero), her older sister was qualified for the quilts as well, but in my opinion Maggie is more deserving. Throughout the story, the differences between the narrator’s two daughters are shown in different ways. The older daughter, Dee (Wangero), is educated and outgoing, whereas Maggie is shy and a homebody. I agree with the narrator’s decision because of Maggie’s good intentions for the quilts and her innocent behavior. In my opinion Dee (Wangero) is partially superficial and always gets what she wants.
...les she had set for herself but she feels that she did a good job at her project. She was alarmed by the way that some of her co-workers lived and felt that she learned a lot from her experiences.
Story Time, by Edward Bloor, Harcourt: United States of America, 2001. 424 pages. Reviewed by Mar Vincent Agbay
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