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Each month we’ll update this page and reward the senders of the best story, our ‘star story’, with a magnum of Champagne or a luxury food hamper.
If you would like your story to be considered for this page, please send an email to sam@who-remembers-me.com
We look forward to hearing from you soon!!
If you would like your story to be considered for this page, please send an email to sam@who-remembers-me.com
We look forward to hearing from you soon!!
Found! Old school friends back in touch 44 years on!
This month’s STAR STORY comes all the way from Alberta in Canada, from Brenda Khan, 56, who managed to trace an old school friend in the UK through Who-Remembers-Me.com. Incredibly it has been 44 years since the pair last saw each other.
Here’s Brenda’s story:
“Linda and I used to go to the same school together, Collingwood School for Girls in London in the UK.
We became good friends in the first half of secondary school when we were partnered up in cookery classes and from that moment onwards, we spent much of our time together.
I can remember one really good Halloween party at her house and the first time I had ever bobbed for apples, great fun!
However, when we finished secondary school we sadly lost touch; we both went our separate ways in life and in 1979 I moved to Alberta in Canada.
The company I had worked for for seven years, Norcen Energy International, closed their London office and transferred all their international business to Calgary, Alberta.
My husband (at the time) and I were both offered job positions but had to pay our own transfers to Calgary. He had a yearning to live in Canada, I did not, but decided to give it a try and have been here ever since!
It’s hard to believe it’s been 44 years since Linda and I last saw each other but it has!
I was absolutely thrilled to find her through the site – we’ve spent the last few weeks exchanging our life histories!
She still lives in England and I live in Calgary, Alberta. I have a 27 year-old son, a genuine Canadian, and for the past 19 years, have worked as an administrative assistant for another oil and gas company.
I do love Canada – Calgary offers a more superior standard of living than England; owning a property is a little more affordable and you get twice the size of living area for your money than you would in the UK; there are acres and acres of prairies, farmlands and native Indian reserves; most of our major highways bear Indian tribe names and First Nations people are very visible; the winters are long and can be very cold, however, because we are sheltered by the mountains in Alberta, the Rockies, we experience “chinooks” which is an Indian word for “warm winds from the west” (these chinooks occasionally blow in during a deep freeze and melt the snow, providing some very welcome relief from the bone-chilling cold). We can have snow right up until the end of May, therefore spring, unlike in England, does not bring a host of flowers and leaves to the trees.
However, I do miss England and am ready for a move back home! I miss the culture and my family – my father and my sister and my sister’s family still live there.
Who knows, maybe Linda and I will be able to meet face to face! I have so many fond childhood memories, not to mention an old class photo from way back then, which I intend to scan and send to her!
I am so grateful for this website; it opens up so many opportunities to reconnect to people we once shared our lives with, which isn’t always easy, particularly if you’ve moved away from your home country and especially if you’re a woman and have changed your surname - without a tool such as this we have no other way of tracking each other down. Thanks a million!”
Here’s Brenda’s story:
“Linda and I used to go to the same school together, Collingwood School for Girls in London in the UK.
We became good friends in the first half of secondary school when we were partnered up in cookery classes and from that moment onwards, we spent much of our time together.
I can remember one really good Halloween party at her house and the first time I had ever bobbed for apples, great fun!
However, when we finished secondary school we sadly lost touch; we both went our separate ways in life and in 1979 I moved to Alberta in Canada.
The company I had worked for for seven years, Norcen Energy International, closed their London office and transferred all their international business to Calgary, Alberta.
My husband (at the time) and I were both offered job positions but had to pay our own transfers to Calgary. He had a yearning to live in Canada, I did not, but decided to give it a try and have been here ever since!
It’s hard to believe it’s been 44 years since Linda and I last saw each other but it has!
I was absolutely thrilled to find her through the site – we’ve spent the last few weeks exchanging our life histories!
She still lives in England and I live in Calgary, Alberta. I have a 27 year-old son, a genuine Canadian, and for the past 19 years, have worked as an administrative assistant for another oil and gas company.
I do love Canada – Calgary offers a more superior standard of living than England; owning a property is a little more affordable and you get twice the size of living area for your money than you would in the UK; there are acres and acres of prairies, farmlands and native Indian reserves; most of our major highways bear Indian tribe names and First Nations people are very visible; the winters are long and can be very cold, however, because we are sheltered by the mountains in Alberta, the Rockies, we experience “chinooks” which is an Indian word for “warm winds from the west” (these chinooks occasionally blow in during a deep freeze and melt the snow, providing some very welcome relief from the bone-chilling cold). We can have snow right up until the end of May, therefore spring, unlike in England, does not bring a host of flowers and leaves to the trees.
However, I do miss England and am ready for a move back home! I miss the culture and my family – my father and my sister and my sister’s family still live there.
Who knows, maybe Linda and I will be able to meet face to face! I have so many fond childhood memories, not to mention an old class photo from way back then, which I intend to scan and send to her!
I am so grateful for this website; it opens up so many opportunities to reconnect to people we once shared our lives with, which isn’t always easy, particularly if you’ve moved away from your home country and especially if you’re a woman and have changed your surname - without a tool such as this we have no other way of tracking each other down. Thanks a million!”
