Mark Richards:
CLASS OF 1972
Vincent Massey Collegiate InstituteClass of 1972
Etobicoke, ON
Silverthorn Collegiate InstituteClass of 1972
Etobicoke, ON
Wellesworth Public SchoolClass of 1965
Etobicoke, ON
Dixon Grove Junior High SchoolClass of 1965
Etobicoke, ON
Briarcrest Public SchoolClass of 1961
Etobicoke, ON
Mark's Story
Life
The photo was taken a month ago (March 6? 2007) in Mexico City at the national museum.
I work as a teacher in Montreal where I have been living since January 1981. I had arrived in Quebec a year and a half before to take an immersion course in French and just never got around to leaving. Before becoming a teacher I did social work, mostly in Vancouver and a little in Toronto. I ran a treatment home for kids, I did some acting, I worked on a salmon fish boat, I worked as a waiter in a hostess club in Japan and also on the CP trains between Vancouver and Winnipeg. I worked in a welfare hostel and in a maximum security penitentiary. Now I work with immigrants, many o...Expand for more
f whom are functionally illiterate in their own language and I teach them how to read and write in English. I speak French and Spanish and I have taken an interest in learning Chinese. All in all, life has been interesting.
Three or four years after leaving Vincent Massey, I figured out that I was gay - didn't really know before then. I have been with my partner, Arturo, for almost eleven years and all in all life is good.
If anybody wants to drop me a line to say hello, please feel free. Even though my folks are getting on (they're both 83), they're still living in the same house just off Eringate in the old neighborhood and I try to get down as often as is possible.
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