Age 9 -1986
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Grade 5 – Age 9
The year of the World Exposition Fair 1986, in Vancouver, what an honor. It did a lot to change the city forever. My dad was a hardcore born again buddhist. I know that sounds quite contradictory but that’s how it was. He printed up all these brochures about Buddism and we’d stand around outside the Expo gates handing them out to everyone. Sorry, they weren’t a brochure, that would be too easy. They were like a freakin 14 page booklet. I guess that’s what he felt like he had to do to redeem himself through his second chance in life after almost dying in a car accident a couple years back.
I remember a lot about Expo that year but unfortunately I don’t remember much about Samhain. I do recall it was insanely packed in the streets, my dad driving me and my friend around, earning our treats, running as fast as we could to get the treats.