Peter Barrett:  

Life Life, so far, has been astounding. I've been more than lucky, in love, with four beautiful women. I've returned to studies on many occasions .I've had numerous jobs and have finally, in my forties, found a career as a teacher. Since high school.... Travelled to live in Vancouver at 18 yrs old, with Yvonne Schumann. Stayed there for 3 years working in restaurants and enjoyed frequent visits to California. Bought a van and travelled around the States. Went back to Montreal and worked as a painter/decorator/carpenter while going through the break-up with Yvonne ( she's still one of my best friends and I visited her in L.A. last year). I re-found an earlier love of mine, Kathy Bergmann (a.k.a. Liz). We fell crazy in love and were together for 9 years. She encouraged me to go to University( at 30), where, studying nights, I got a BA in Psychology. All the while I worked in renovations, and made frequent winter trips to Miami Beach. Kathy and I had a rather tumultuous relationship and broke up a few times. At 37 I entered Theatre School at Concordia U. and in my first year there I was part of a production of Anne of Green Gables that went to Hong Kong. While in HK I met Chiu Sin Tuen (Gazaro), a student of acting, and fell in love again. Back at school for the second year of my degree, Gazaro and I had a long distance relationship; a letter a day and expensive phone calls. At Xmas, she came to meet my family, and the next summer (1995) I moved to HK to get married. In HK ( where I live to this day) I worked as a carpenter and subsequently as a general contractor, renovating offices, showrooms, luxury flats and restaurants, until 2001. All the while I held drama workshops for a wide range of people, got a couple of acting jobs and worked frequently with my wife as clowns. Through this time Gazaro and I were quite happily married. We had some problems, as she suffered from a rare disease ( Behcet's Syndrome) which finally took her life in t...Expand for more