My Memoirs - Citizen of the World

The Birth of our Granddaughters
On April 28, 1991, at 11:53 p.m., we were blessed with our first
granddaughter, Sara. When she was 5 years old, she attended Saint
Philomena, a very good Catholic School in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island. After that, she attended high school at Saint Mary’s Bay
View Academy in East Providence, graduating in June 2009. Sara
was a very good student and played on the school’s Lacrosse team.
When she was three, she started taking classes at a school for
dance. She became quite good, especially in ballet, and she
performed in competitions each year against other schools from
around the country. Two years ago, she became an assistant to the
Director of the Dance Works School in Bristol, and she remained
there until she started college in September 2009.
After high school, Sara applied to several colleges and universities.
She was accepted by many of them, but she chose the University of
Massachusetts - Amherst, where she is now a sophomore taking
courses in the Spanish and Portuguese languages. She is inclined
to pursue a career as a Language Teacher. This made Deodete -
her grandmother - very happy because she had also been a teacher
in Portugal and also at Our Lady of Fátima Parochial School in
Hartford, Connecticut.
On April 1 st 1997, at 3:40 p.m., we were again blessed with our
second granddaughter, Sofia. It was April Fool’s Day, and there
was a big snow storm that morning. My son-in-law called me,
saying that he had to take Angela immediately to Women & Infants
Hospital in Providence. It was five o’clock in the morning and
they needed someone to stay with Sara. My wife and I took the car
out of the garage and tried to climb the hill on Peter Road, but
there was so much snow on the ground that we barely made any
progress. Our daughter’s house was on Ursula Drive, only a
quarter mile away.
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