Sunday 5th July
This morning we headed to the Islamic Book Shop in Surrey and then to Main Street (Punjabi area) in Vancouver/Richmond, where Rozi and Shamina went shopping for a couple of hours. Naushad and myself headed to the nearest Tim Horton’s (thank the navigation system) and went to a local park and drank our coffee and chatted. When the ladies were ready we purchased lunch from a halal kebab shop run by an elderly Pakistani man. He knew all about Fiji, asking Naushad where in Fiji he was from.
We still had a while to kill before going to visit Ashok and family, so we went to Queen Elizabeth Park, overlooking Vancouver city. We wandered around the gardens and took some photographs. When the time was right we headed back towards Main Street and to Ashok’s place. Ashok is Anu’s brother and Shamina had not seen him since he left Fiji in 1971. Thirty-eight years - a long long time!
Ashok mentioned that Usman, a cousin of Shamina from Wailoko was also in Vancouver. They rang him and about an hour later he arrived with Josie, his French-Canadian partner/wife. Shamina had not seen him since early 1978 when their Grandmother (Daadi) passed away. He is a very funny guy, right into arts and crafts.
He showed a few pictures on his laptop of a native wood carver (totem poles etc), and I got my PC and showed him pictures that included his mother, aunties, brother, sister etc. He was so excited to see these and he asked if I could send him copies. I thought about it for a while and asked if his laptop accepted SD cards. It did, so I started copying photos and before long he had over 50 images from my scanned slides.
We ate dinner and then about 10:00pm said our goodbyes and headed back to Surrey.
This morning we headed to the Islamic Book Shop in Surrey and then to Main Street (Punjabi area) in Vancouver/Richmond, where Rozi and Shamina went shopping for a couple of hours. Naushad and myself headed to the nearest Tim Horton’s (thank the navigation system) and went to a local park and drank our coffee and chatted. When the ladies were ready we purchased lunch from a halal kebab shop run by an elderly Pakistani man. He knew all about Fiji, asking Naushad where in Fiji he was from.
We still had a while to kill before going to visit Ashok and family, so we went to Queen Elizabeth Park, overlooking Vancouver city. We wandered around the gardens and took some photographs. When the time was right we headed back towards Main Street and to Ashok’s place. Ashok is Anu’s brother and Shamina had not seen him since he left Fiji in 1971. Thirty-eight years - a long long time!
Ashok mentioned that Usman, a cousin of Shamina from Wailoko was also in Vancouver. They rang him and about an hour later he arrived with Josie, his French-Canadian partner/wife. Shamina had not seen him since early 1978 when their Grandmother (Daadi) passed away. He is a very funny guy, right into arts and crafts.
He showed a few pictures on his laptop of a native wood carver (totem poles etc), and I got my PC and showed him pictures that included his mother, aunties, brother, sister etc. He was so excited to see these and he asked if I could send him copies. I thought about it for a while and asked if his laptop accepted SD cards. It did, so I started copying photos and before long he had over 50 images from my scanned slides.
We ate dinner and then about 10:00pm said our goodbyes and headed back to Surrey.
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