Postcards from Glen's Café, St Paul's Learning Centre

Poems card:

I am from Bristol but live in Cumbria.

I am from Bristol and I married my

Wife in the city hall registry office,

I am from Bristol and my accent is half way

Between a farmer and a pirate.

Family Histories card:

My mum’s family is from Wales and they’ve been miners for generations. My dad’s family is English and from Liverpool.

Poems card:

I am from Malaysia

I am from a place with a saying most Malaysians will know:

Malaysia truly Asia.

I am from a place where houses surrounded by river and big roads,

With aunties or uncles gossiping around the neighbourhood.

I am from an area where if I’m bored, I could jump in the river and swim around with my friends.

I am from an area where I always need to watch when I go to school

Just in case no snakes or baby crocs wandering around the pathways to go to school.

I am from a neighbourhood where I lived with my mum, dad and 4 other siblings.

I am from Malaysia and would like to go back where I’m from as I live in Bristol now.

I am from Malaysia which is a country where I could buy very yummy homemade snacks.

Recipes card:

Malaysian onion fritters

2 cups of plain flour

1 cup of water

A pinch of salt

2 tablespoons of sugar

1 bulb of onion sliced thinly

Oil for frying

Mix all of the above as a batter into a hot frying pan with oil.

The story goes with it is I learnt to make it when I was 4 years old. I dreamt of eating it but don’t know how to make it. I managed to buy a ready mix batter, but omitted the inions and cook it like a pancake as I don’t know where oil was at the time of making it. (I made it without supervision of older people). Once I made a burnt pancake rather than fritters, mum came back and told me off that I just wasted the battered mixture. I got banned from cooking until I was 12 years old plus for safety issues too.

Poems card:

I am from Congo

I enjoy Homoldoll

I live with my boyfriend

I would like to go to Brazil.

I love central of Africa food (Congo)